The Experts' Top CBT and DBT Skills to use during a Global Pandemic

Attention School Psychologists, Teachers, and Administrators!

NYASP Presents A Special Online Webinar:

Chapter L of NYASP

co-sponsored with

Westchester County Psychological Association School Division

Presents a Special Webinar:

The Experts’ Top CBT and DBT Skills

to use during a Global Pandemic

Followed by Q & A

June 11, 2020 1:00-2:00 pm

Presented by:

Dr. Lata K. McGinn

and

Dr. Alec L. Miller

~Skills for Ourselves and Others~

Join us for a supportive conversation focused on you, the clinician, and ways to cope during this highly stressful and unprecedented time in your life and practice. Drs. McGinn and Miller will share various CBT and DBT skills and model how to use them in your daily life and share them with the students you serve.

The presentation will be followed by a Q & A.

To register, go to: https://nyasp.wildapricot.org/event-3855453

Registration Fee:

NYASP and WCPA Members: FREE                               

Non-NYASP/Non-WCPA Members: $10

Please note that registration fee must be paid at the time of registration. No P.O.s can be accepted.

About the presenters:

Dr. Lata K. McGinnis a co-founder of Cognitive and Behavioral Consultants. She is also a tenured Professor of Psychology, Director of the Doctoral Clinical Program, and Director of the University-based Cognitive Behavior Therapy Training Program for Anxiety and Depressive Disorders at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University/Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Dr. McGinn is the President of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and the immediate Past-President of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy. She has also previously served on the Board of Directors of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies and currently serves as its International Associates Chair. She is a Founding Fellow and a Diplomate of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and is a certified ACT Trainer. She has authored numerous publications, including co-authoring two books, titled Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, published in 1999 by Jason Aronson, Inc. and Treatment Plans and Interventions for Anxiety and Depression, published by Guilford in 2011. 

Dr. Alec L. Miller is a clinical psychologist, teacher, researcher, author, and disseminator of evidence-based treatments to schools and agencies worldwide. He is currently Co-Founder and Clinical Director of Cognitive & Behavioral Consultants (CBC), a large group practice and training center based in White Plains and New York City, NY. He is also a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY. At CBC, Dr. Miller and his colleagues currently treat patients of all ages and train mental health professionals and school personnel in CBT and DBT. Dr. Miller and his CBC colleagues have trained over 80 schools in DBT in the United States.

Prior to becoming CBC’s Clinical Director, Dr. Miller served over 20 years at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine as Chief of Child and Adolescent Psychology, Director of the Adolescent Depression and Suicide Program, Associate Director of Psychology Training and was Professor of Clinical Psychiatry. Since 1995, Dr. Miller has conducted clinical research and published extensively on the subject of adolescent mental health and DBT. This includes over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as the three leading DBT textbooks and treatment manuals. He was also the lead trainer and co-investigator of the first randomized controlled trial of DBT with suicidal adolescents that was published in 2014. Dr. Miller has received numerous awards for his enduring contributions to the fields of psychology and mental health.