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May 15, 2025: APA names Prolonged Exposure Therapy a first-line treatment for PTSD
The American Psychological Association's 2025 Clinical Practice Guidelines reaffirm what the scientific community has long known - Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE) remains a first-line treatment for PTSD. The most rigorously tested psychotherapy available for PTSD, PE's status, unchanged since 2017, speaks to the decades of research supporting its effectiveness.
April 23, 2025: Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karan on Mind on Mental Health Podcast - Part 3
In this final episode with Elizabeth Turk-Karan, PhD, she and host Andy Dean sit down to discuss how to go about finding effective treatment for anxiety disorders and what strategies tend to be the most helpful.
April 16, 2025: Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karan on Mind on Mental Health Podcast - Part 2
Overcoming anxiety often requires spending time purposefully being uncomfortable. Host Andy Dean and Elizabeth Turk-Karan, PhD explain exposure therapy and how it works for many who experience anxiety disorders.
April 8, 2025: Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karan on Mind on Mental Health Podcast - Part 1
The first of a 3 part series on anxiety disorders with CTSA's Elizabeth Turk-Karan, Ph.D. Starting with the basics of defining the difference between the anxiety we all experience and debilitating anxiety disorder, host Andy Dean and Dr. Turk-Karan share their experiences working with patients whose disorder interferes with everyday life in many ways.
March 4, 2025: Dr. Sandy Capaldi on specific phobias and trauma
Sometimes, specific phobias develop after a person experiences a traumatic event, or after they have a panic attack that then gets associated with the environment and leads to a self-reinforcing fear of that scenario, said Sandra Capaldi, a clinical psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. For example, someone who has a panic attack while they happen to be driving might…
The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety offers a number of professional workshops for mental health practitioners who are looking to extend their training in empirically-supported treatments for anxiety disorders. Our current workshop offerings include Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD, PE Supervisor Workshops, and Exposure and Response Prevention (EX/RP) for OCD, among others. Please visit our Training Opportunities page to learn more.
