Update on the Emotional Disorders Treatment Project

We are very excited to share that the Emotional Disorders Treatment for Adolescents project, an investigation of our emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral treatment for adolescents with anxiety disorders and/or depression (also referred to as the "Unified" treatment for emotional disorders), will begin recruiting here in the Child and Adolescent Mood and Anxiety Treatment (CAMAT) Program at the University of Miami in October 2008.

For those that qualify, assessment and treatment services provided as part of the Emotional Disorders Treatment Project are available at no-cost to adolescents and their families.

We will post additional information shortly about this exciting treatment opportunity for adolescents in the Miami area and their families. If you have questions or inquiries about this project in the meantime, feel free to call the CAMAT Program at (305) 284-9852 or email us at: anxietylab@psy.miami.edu.

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The new manual and workbook on Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Adolescent Panic Disorder

We are very pleased to let everyone know that the manual and workbook detailing our Cognitive Behavior Therapy (or CBT) approach to panic disorder in adolescence, an evidence based treatment for this condition in teens is now published by Oxford University Press, as part of their Treatments that Work series.

Written in collaboration with Dr. Donna Pincus and colleagues from the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University, we invite clinicians that treat panic disorder in adolescents, as well as parents of teens with panic disorder and adolescents who are dealing with this condition to check out our new therapist guide entitled Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic for Adolescents by Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich and Sara G. Mattis, and the adolescent workbook for this treatment approach, Riding the Wave by Donna B. Pincus, Jill T. Ehrenreich and David A. Spiegel.

You can read more details about this treatment approach at the Oxford University Press website.