Category: Treatment - CBT
Andrew Guzick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Jonathan S. Comer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Andrew Guzick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
Monica Wu, Ph.D.
Lyra Health
Burlingame, California
Bradley Riemann, Ph.D.
Chief Clinical Officer
Rogers Behavioral Health
Oconomowoc, Wisconsin
Allison Meyer, Ph.D.
Indiana University School of Medicine
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a tremendous mental health crisis with it. Clinicians and researchers have aimed to develop scalable treatment approaches grounded in evidence-based principles during this time to mitigate the mental health impact of the pandemic. This symposium will present four presentations that provide data supporting the feasibility and/or effectiveness of such efforts across a range of patient populations and levels of care.
The first presentation will provide effectiveness data on a brief, parent-led, transdiagnostic CBT program adapted for children struggling with emotional problems during the pandemic. In addition to providing promising evidence for this approach in response to mental health crises, it will highlight CBT homework completion as a key predictor of improved outcomes, underscoring the importance of enhancing engagement with CBT exercises during this time.
The second talk will present feasibility and acceptability data related to a COVID-specific digital module among a large sample of clients receiving employer-sponsored mental health benefits from a behavioral health technology company. This digital module was rapidly developed and rolled out within a blended care (digital content combined with face-to-face therapy) program to reach a large number of individuals in a timely manner, highlighting its utility for broadly disseminating evidence-based skills and minimizing provider burden in the process.
Next, data on the relative efficacy of telehealth and in-person services will be presented in a specialty partial hospitalization/intensive outpatient program for adults with OCD. In this study, a large sample of patients during the pandemic were matched with patients who participated in in-person services before the pandemic, finding similar trajectories of change across groups. Evidence-based care is notoriously difficult to access for individuals with OCD; these findings provide promising data to suggest telehealth can improve the reach of specialty, intensive services for patients with treatment-refractory mental health conditions.
The final talk will describe the rapid development of a group-based CBT program delivered within school settings developed with the input of school mental health professionals. Qualitative data from this talk will identify barriers and facilitators to implementing this group within a school setting, providing insight for future efforts directed towards implementing CBT in schools during a crisis, a setting that has the promise to reach a larger number of youth than mental health clinics.
Across talks, themes of community engagement, rapid implementation of scalable solutions, and adaptability of tried-and-true CBT principles during the pandemic will be highlighted.
Presenter: Andrew G. Guzick, Ph.D. – Baylor College of Medicine
Co-author: Alicia Leong, PhD – Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Co-author: Emily Dickinson, PhD – Florida International university
Co-author: Alison Salloum, Ph.D. – University of South Florida
Co-author: Sarah M. Kennedy, Ph.D. – University of Colorado School of Medicine
Co-author: Jill Ehrenreich-May, Ph.D. – University of Miami
Co-author: Eric Storch, Ph.D. – Baylor College of Medicine
Presenter: Monica S. Wu, Ph.D. – Lyra Health
Co-author: Jocelyn Lau, MPH – Lyra Health
Co-author: Chelsey R. Wilks, Ph.D. – University of Missouri-St. Louis
Co-author: Connie Chen, M.D. – Lyra Health
Co-author: Anita Lungu, Ph.D. – Lyra Health
Presenter: Bradley Riemann, Ph.D. – Rogers Behavioral Health
Presenter: Allison Meyer, Ph.D. – Indiana University School of Medicine
Co-author: Natalie Rodriguez-Quintana, M.P.H., Ph.D. – University of Michigan Medical School
Co-author: Emily Bilek, ABPP, Ph.D. – University of Michigan
Co-author: Rochelle Flumenbaum, PhD – Michigan Medicine
Co-author: Kristen Miner, LMSW – Michigan Medicine
Co-author: Lynn Scoville, LMSW – Michigan Medicine
Co-author: Kelly Warner, Clinical Specialist – Michigan Medicine
Co-author: Elizabeth Koschmann, PhD – Michigan Medicine