Neuroticism: A New Framework for Emotional Disorders and their Treatment, 3.0 CE
presented by Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph.D.
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Workshop Description:
Neuroticism—the tendency to experience negative emotions, along with the perception that the world is filled with stressful, unmanageable challenges—is strongly associated with anxiety, depression, and other common mental health conditions. This workshop will demonstrate how targeting this trait in psychotherapy can benefit a broad range of clients and reduce the need for disorder-specific interventions. The presenter will describe and illustrate evidence-based therapies that address neuroticism directly, including her own Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment. She will examine how neuroticism develops and is maintained in its relation to psychopathology, and its implications for how psychological disorders are classified and diagnosed.
Workshop Objectives:
Based on the content of this workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Articulate the public health implications of neuroticism, as well as the rationale for target this trait in treatment instead of focusing on symptoms
- Describe the therapeutic strategies (e.g., mindfulness, exposure) that have shown promising in addressing neuroticism.
- Describe how personality traits are integrated into cutting-edge models of psychopathology, and how this information can be used to craft treatment plans.
Skill Level:
Intermediate
About the Presenter:
Shannon Sauer-Zavala, Ph.D.
Dr. Sauer-Zavala is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Kentucky (UK) and is the founding Director of Clinical Services at the UK Clinic for Emotional Health. Dr. Sauer-Zavala received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from UK in 2011; she completed her predoctoral internship at Duke University Medical Center and her postdoctoral fellowship at Boston University. She then spent seven years on the faculty in BU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Science before returning home to UK in 2019. Her research is focused on exploring emotion-focused mechanisms that maintain psychological symptoms (particularly high-risk symptoms such as suicidal thoughts and behaviors) and using this information to develop more targeted, easily-disseminated intervention strategies. Her research has been supported by NIMH, NIAAA, Templeton Foundation, the Center for Implementation and Improvement Sciences, and the Canadian Institute of Health Research. Dr. Sauer-Zavala has co-authored over 75 peer-reviewed articles, numerous book chapters, and three books. In particular, she is a co-developer of the Unified Protocol and the founding director of the Unified Protocol Institute; she remains involved in consultation and training for this intervention.
Workshop Pricing:
| Member registration: | $100.00 |
| Non-member registration: | $150.00 |
| Student registration: | $35.00 |
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Course Details
For Distributors
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| Neuroticism: A New Framework for Emotional Disorders and their Treatment | 03:00:00 |
| Lesson: Neuroticism: A New Framework for Emotional Disorders and their Treatment | 03:00:00 | |
| Quiz: Neuroticism: A New Framework for Emotional Disorders and their Treatment |