Adult Psychopathology Institute

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Program Details:

July 18 - 20, 2012

PSY 390 (1097)

The Adult Psychopathology Institute will be held at the Joel and Linda Abromson Community Education Center on USM's Portland Campus. Presentations are held in the 500 seat, climate-controlled Hannaford Lecture Hall. The institutes are led by USM Psychology Professor William Gayton, Ph.D. During the past 20 years, Professor Gayton has been instrumental in the creation, promotion, and execution of these intense and fascinating educational programs.

The institutes consist of three-day intensive classes (Wednesday-Friday) for college students seeking academic credit or for community professionals seeking certification and professional development opportunities. The institutes offer CEU's for teachers requiring re-certification, as well as for participants seeking Board of Psychology or Social Work CEU's.

The educational focus of these unique programs is to bring together a tremendous team of academic experts to facilitate a discussion of theory and practice. The institutes are intended to appeal to mental health practitioners, health care professionals, physicians, physical therapists, nursing students, psychologists, counselors, social workers, human service workers, coaches, athletic directors, and athletes.

Open to all majors, no prerequisites.

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Schedule:

Wednesday, July 18

Thursday, July 19

Friday, July 20

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Faculty

Joshua Caron
Raymond DiGiuseppe
William F. Gayton
Steve Levinson
Scott Lilienfeld
Sara Reynolds
Robyn Walser

• Joshua Caron, Ph.D., is a Maine native. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Southern Maine (Go Huskies!), and his Masters and Doctorate from the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He is the Section Chief for two service lines- Neuropsychology and Mental Health Compensation and Pension examiners- at VA Maine HCS. Additionally, he oversees neuropsychological training at the VA and has written multiple articles and book chapters on topics such as TBI and suboptimal effort testing, dementia, qualitative approaches to assessment, and current neuropsychology training practices within the VA. On the lighter side, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two boys when not otherwise preoccupied with trying to curse the Lakers, Jets, Yankees, and Canadians.

• Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., a native of Philadelphia, received his B.A. from Villanova University and his Ph.D. from Hofstra University. He then completed a postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Rational Emotive Therapy with Albert Ellis. DiGiuseppe has published over 70 journal articles and book chapters and co-authored 5 books. His present work involves the assessment and treatment of anger, disorders in children and adolescents, and the development of REBT theory and practice. He is professor and chair of psychology at St. John’s University in New York City, and director of professional education at the Albert Ellis Institute for Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy. He lives in Hempstead, N.Y. with his wife and four children.

• Steve Levinson, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who for over 35 years directed a comprehensive rural mental health program that marched to the beat of a different drummer. An outspoken critic of the traditional medical model of mental health care, Levinson created and implemented an outside-the-box model for improving the functional abilities and quality of life of persons with mental illness. He is an author, inventor, and unabashed contrarian who has made appearances on ABC TV’s 20/20 and CBC radio.   

• Scott Lilienfeld, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Emory University in Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota in 1990, where he studied under David Lykken. His primary research interests include the etiology and assessment of personality disorders (e.g. psychopathic personality) and personality traits, conceptual issues in psychiatric classification and diagnosis, the etiology of anxiety disorders, the problem of pseudoscience in clinical psychology. Lilienfeld is founder and editor of the journal Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice, a journal dedicated to distinguishing science from pseudoscience in clinical practice. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Psychological Assessment, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Clinical Psychology Review, and he is a consulting editor for Skeptical Inquirer magazine. In addition, he is co-editor, along with Steven Jay Lynn and Jeffrey Lohr, of the book, Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology (Guilford Press) and co-author, along with Drs. James Wook, M Teresa Nezworski, and Howard Garb, of the book What’s Wrong with the Rorschach? Science Confronts the Controversial Inkblot Test (Jossey-Bass), both of which appeared in 2003. Professor Lilienfeld was the recipient of the 1998 David Shakow Award for Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology from Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA). He served as president of the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (Section 3 of APA Division 12) from 2001 to 2002.

• Sarah Reynolds, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist with over 10 years of experience providing DBT training, system consultation, and direct service in a wide variety of settings:  community mental health, assertive community treatment teams, state mental hospitals, inpatient and outpatient psychiatry centers, and adolescent correctional facilities.
  She developed expertise in DBT during a three-year research fellowship at the University of Washington under the mentorship of Professor Marsha Linehan.  While there she was an individual therapist, skills trainer, and clinical supervisor for DBT research studies.   From 2002—2007 Dr. Reynolds was Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where she led a DBT team, developed an elective rotation in DBT for psychiatry residents, and conducted federally-funded research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) and women’s physical health outcomes.
  Dr. Reynolds is well-known in the DBT community for her teaching and service.  She has been a DBT trainer for Behavioral Tech since 2002.   She served as Program Chair for ISITDBT (2008 & 2009) and continues as a member of the Executive Board.   She was a DBT expert panelist at the 2011 meeting of the National Educational Alliance for BPD (NEA-BPD).
  Dr. Reynolds is currently in private practice in Manhattan and White Plains, NY where she conducts DBT with adolescents and adults. She is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University where she teaches evidence-based practice methods in the school of social work.

• Robyn D. Walser, Ph.D., is a psychologist for the National Center of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) at the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, California. Walser received her degree in clinical psychology from the University of Nevada-Reno. During her graduate studies she developed expertise in traumatic stress, substance abuse and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). She is currently developing innovative ways to translate science-into-practice and is responsible for the dissemination of state-of-the-art knowledge and treatment related to PTSD to health care professionals and trainees at VA facilities nationwide. She is working on a number of Web-based and educational PTSD products for both practitioners and veterans. In addition, she is responsible for several research projects investigating use of mindfulness and ACT in PTSD populations, plus PTSD in the geriatric population.

• William F. Gayton Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Southern Maine. During the past 26 years, he has developed four Psychology Institutes sponsored by USM Summer Session dealing with Sport Psychology, Health Psychology, Adult Psychopathology and Child Psychopathology. The Institutes provide USM students and professionals in the community an opportunity to hear nationally known speakers discuss their practice and research.

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