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  • Friday, June 26, 2026
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Nursing Mother's Room
  • 7:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Speaker Ready Room
  • 7:00 AM - 10:00 PM PDT
    Gender Neutral Bathrooms
  • 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM PDT
    Congress Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Wellness Room
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Keynote 6 - Ecological Engagement: A methodological approach to work with at-risk populations
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Keynote 7 - Realising the mass public benefit of evidence-based psychological therapies: politics, measurement-based care, and economics
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Expanding the Scope of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Latin America: Empirical Advances in Trauma, Digital Interventions, and Psychological Processes
    Presenter: Carmem BEATRIZ. Neufeld, Ph.D. – University of São Paulo
    Violence / Aggression
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Panel Discussion 14 - Helping clients to live well through evidence-based strategies
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 22 - Innovating CBT in China: Toward More Equitable Access and Sustainable Implementation
    Chair: Ning Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
    Chair: Qing Fan, M.D., Ph.D. – Shanghai Mental Health Center
    Discussant: Ning Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
    Presenter: Qing Fan, M.D., Ph.D. – Shanghai Mental Health Center
    Presenter: Haolun Li, M.D., Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Nanjing Medical University affiliated Nanjing Brain Hospital
    Presenter: Yiwen Wu, M.A. (she/her/hers) – Shanghai Mental Health Center
    Presenter: Yongjun Chen, M.S. – Nanjing Brain Hospital Affiliated to Nanjing Medical University
    Presenter: Yumin Zhang, M.S. (she/her/hers) – The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Nanjing Medical University
    Interventions and Care Delivery Models in the Context of Resource Limitations
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 23 - Assessment and Treatment of Anhedonia in Depression, Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, and Anorexia Nervosa
    Chair: Jacqueline B. Persons, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oakland Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center
    Discussant: Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D. – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenter: Erin Moran, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Presenter: Sarah Dolan, M.A. (she/her/hers) – University of California San Francisco
    Presenter: Jacqueline B. Persons, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Oakland Cognitive Behavior Therapy Center
    Basic processes and experimental psychopathology
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 24 - Translating Mechanisms and Transdiagnostic Interventions into New Treatments for Misophonia
    Chair: M. Zachary Rosenthal, Ph.D. – Duke University Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation
    Chair: Jane Gregory, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: M. Zachary Rosenthal, Ph.D. – Duke University Center for Misophonia and Emotion Regulation
    Presenter: Jane Gregory, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Presenter: Emily C. Gates, B.A. (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Presenter: Grace A. Heppes, B.S. (she/her/hers) – Duke University
    Presenter: Marta Siepsiak, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Faculty of Psychology, University SWPS Warsaw
    Transdiagnostic and therapeutic processes
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 25 - Adapting and Implementing Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments in Real-World Care: Lessons Across Disorders, Settings, and Populations
    Chair: Allison G. Harvey, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: J.D. Smith, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Utah School of Medicine
    Presenter: Allison G. Harvey, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Presenter: Shannon L. Wiltsey Stirman, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – National Center for PTSD and Stanford University
    Presenter: Candice Monson, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Toronto Metropolitan University
    Presenter: Debra Kaysen, ABPP, Ph.D. – Stanford University
    Dissemination and implementation science
     Earn 1 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 12 - Anxiety, Depression, and Burnout: Metacognition, Stress Processes, and Health Anxiety
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 13 - Minority Stress, Stigma, and Intersecting Vulnerabilities Among LGBTQIA+ Individuals
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 14 - Artificial Intelligence and Technology-Based Interventions for Mental Health
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 15 - Trauma and PTSD Interventions Across Clinical and Humanitarian Contexts
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 15 - Trauma and PTSD Interventions Across Clinical and Humanitarian Contexts
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Panel Discussion 2 - CBT Implementation in Action: Training for Fidelity and Flexibility in Large Health Systems
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Nightmares
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Cognitive-Behavior Therapy for Adult ADHD: An Implementation-Focused Approach
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)-Informed Treatment for Psychosis
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Mapping change: A workshop on precision therapy through transtheoretical case conceptualization and treatment planning
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 1 - The Friendship Bench: Lessons from a Thousand Grandmothers
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 2 - The Unified Protocols for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children and Adolescents: Clinical Lessons from Global Successes in Modification and Implementation
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 3 - Existential Concerns and Cognitive-behavioural Procedures: Managing Death, Isolation, Identity, Freedom and the Search for Meaning
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 4 - CBT for ADHD in Adults - Basics and Beyond
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Exhibits
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 8 - All Together Now: Integrating Mental and Physical Health in Young People
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 9 - Personalized & Optimized Therapies (POTs) using the Resilience Training App for subthreshold depression in the community: the RESiLIENT trial (n=5361)
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 25 - Psychological Interventions for Global Use: Experience-based Reflections, Key Lessons and Future Directions
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 8 - Anatomy of a Rupture & the Practice of Repair: Using CBT to Interrupt the Blame, Shame, and Anger Cycle in Personal Relationships
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 9 - Evidence-Based Skills to Support Peripartum Individuals
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 26 - Unveiling the Mechanisms of Internalizing Disorders: From Daily Affective Dynamics to Multidecade Trajectories and Scalable Interventions
    Chair: Nur Hani Zainal, M.S., Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Discussant: Sherry A. Beaudreau, ABPP, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – VA Palo Alto Health Care System/Stanford
    Presenter: Nur Hani Zainal, M.S., Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Presenter: Tian Liang, Other (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Presenter: Annie-Lori Joseph Denk, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School
    Presenter: Natalia Van Doren, Ph.D. – UCSF
    Transdiagnostic and therapeutic processes
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 27 - Responsible Innovation: Using AI Resources to Advance Therapist Training and Parenting Interventions
    Chair: Eduardo Bunge, Dr., Ph.D. – Palo Alto University
    Discussant: Robert D. Friedberg, ABPP, Ph.D. – Independent Training Consultant in CBT
    Presenter: Ana Zdravkovic, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Kaiser Permanente Northern California Mental Health Training Program
    Presenter: Christina Desage, M.S. (she/her/hers) – Palo Alto University
    Presenter: Daniella Vaclavik, M.A., M.S., Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Florida International University
    Presenter: Eduardo Bunge, Dr., Ph.D. – Palo Alto University
    Presenter: Ren Hong, Ph.D. – Kaiser Permanente
    Artificial Intelligence and technology-based interventions
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 28 - Advances in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in Japan: Cultural Adaptation within a Social Context
    Chair: Takayuki Harada, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba
    Discussant: Takayuki Harada, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba
    Presenter: Takayuki Harada, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Tsukuba
    Presenter: Minoru Takahashi, M.Ed. (he/him/his) – Mejiro University
    Presenter: Yuka Asami, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Mejiro university
    Presenter: Asami Komazawa, Ph.D. – Mejiro University
    Presenter: Saya Moriyama, M.A. (she/her/hers) – University of Tsukuba
    Dissemination and implementation science
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 7 - Brave Beginnings: Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Innovations for Childhood Anxiety
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 16 - Low-Intensity and Self-Help Interventions in Global Settings
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 17 - Experimental Neuroscience and Emotional Processes in CBT
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 4 - Community-Centered Approaches to Implementing Evidence-Based Interventions in Youth Mental Health
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 5 - Resilience under Pressure: Adapting Trauma-Informed Care for LGBTQ+ Patients across the Lifespan amidst Shifting Psychosocial Landscapes
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 7 - Bottom-Up Informational Mechanisms in Exposure-Based Interventions: The Role of Interoception and Expectancy Violation
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
    3 Minute Open Paper Group 2 - Transdiagnostic Processes and Culturally Adapted Interventions in Mood and Anxiety Disorders
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    How to think like Socrates: From Socratic Questioning to Stoicism to Modern CBT
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Stepping Up our Game: Improving Use of Exposure Therapy for Eating Disorders
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Supervision Essentials for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy: Training Clinicians to Excel in CBT Conceptualization, Interventions, and Therapeutic Relationship Skills
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 5 - Cognitive-behavioural Approaches for People with Complex Presentations of Psychosis
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 6 - OCD Unlocked: Evidence-Based CBT Strategies for Immediate Impact
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 11 - Equitable Implementation of a Behavioral Parent Training Intervention in Community-Based Pediatrics
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 12 - Advancing Global Mental Health for All
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 11 - Measurement as a Clinical Skill in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 29 - Culture Beliefs and Dynamic Cognitions in CBT in China: From Cultural Meaning-Making to Family Related Belief Informed Intervention
    Chair: Zhongfang Fu, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Discussant: Meirong Pan, M.D. (she/her/hers) – Peking University Sixth Hospital
    Presenter: Jinxing Liu, M.S. (he/him/his) – Department of Psychology, Peking University
    Presenter: Xueqian Wei, B.S. (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Presenter: Linmin Duan, Other (she/her/hers) – Peking University
    Presenter: Zuozhi Fang, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Peking University
    Presenter: Elizabeth Zhu – Peking University
    Basic processes and experimental psychopathology
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 30 - Playing with 'scale': Novel methods to scale interventions, improve access, and build clinical capacity to meet global treatment shortages
    Chair: Anushka Patel, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
    Discussant: Ken Carswell, Other (he/him/his) – World Health Organization
    Presenter: Anushka Patel, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Harvard Medical School
    Presenter: John Naslund, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Harvard Medical School
    Presenter: Emma Hill, B.A. – Harvard Medical School
    Presenter: Katy O'Neill, M.P.H. – Harvard Medical School
    Dissemination and implementation science
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 8 - Affirming, Equitable and Sustainable Applications of the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 18 - Exposure Therapy: Expectancy Violations, Learning Mechanisms, and Outcome Prediction
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 19 - Supporting Youth at Risk: CBT, DBT, and Technology-Based Interventions for Mental Health, Sleep, and Problematic Internet Use
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 19 - Supporting Youth at Risk: CBT, DBT, and Technology-Based Interventions for Mental Health, Sleep, and Problematic Internet Use
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 10 - Improving Outcomes for Treatment-Resistant Chronic Depression with Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Symposium17 - Global Innovations in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Efficiency, Cultural Adaptation, and Immersive Delivery
    Chair: Naoki Yoshinaga, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Miyazaki
    Discussant: David M. Clark, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Oxford
    Presenter: Graham R. Thew, D. Phil. (he/him/his) – University of Oxford, UK
    Presenter: Naoki Yoshinaga, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Miyazaki
    Presenter: Jill M. Newby, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – UNSW Sydney at the Black Dog Institute
    Presenter: Anne S. Hildebrand, M.Sc. – University Medical Center OWL, University of Bielefeld
    Anxiety disorders
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Adapting and Expanding Your CBT Skills for Working with Misophonia
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    CBT Adaptations for Affirming Care for Transgender and Gender Diverse Clients
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Cognitive Behavioral Therapy of Repetitive Negative Thinking
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Extending Access to Care for Youth with Selective Mutism: Helping All Children Find Their Voice
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Integrating Mindfulness with Clinical Precision: Strategic Practice Selection in CBT
  • 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 13 - How far have we really come in the treatment of paediatric anxiety: An overview of successes and failures
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 14 - Beyond Diagnosis: Clinical Insights from Symptom Networks
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 15 - Impact Of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Violence Against Women in the Perinatal Period
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Symposium 20 - From Innovation to Implementation: Uses of Artificial Intelligence to Support Training and Skill in CBT
    Chair: Shannon L. Wiltsey Stirman, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – National Center for PTSD and Stanford University
    Presenter: Tianyu Zhang, M.S. – University College London
    Presenter: Daniel Szoke, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Rush University Medical Center
    Presenter: Shannon L. Wiltsey Stirman, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – National Center for PTSD and Stanford University
    Artificial Intelligence and technology-based interventions
     Earn 1 Credit
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Symposium 32 - Is digital CBT a realistic option to make evidence-based intervention more accessible and equitable?
    Chair: Anna Van Meter, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – NYU Grossmand School of Medicine
    Discussant: Stephen Schueller, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of California, Irvine
    Presenter: Erum Nadeem, Ph.D. – Rutgers University
    Presenter: Henry Artez Willis, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Maryland- College Park
    Presenter: Nur Hani Zainal, M.S., Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – National University of Singapore
    Artificial Intelligence and technology-based interventions
     Earn 1 Credit
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 10 - Validation across CBT, DBT, ACT, CBASP, and CPT
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 31 - Leveraging Insights from Cognitive Psychology to Inform CBT Interventions
    Chair: Anne E. Milner, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Chair: Allison G. Harvey, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Discussant: Allison G. Harvey, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Presenter: Anne E. Milner, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Berkeley
    Presenter: Colette R. Hirsch, B.S., Ph.D., Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – King's College London
    Presenter: Emily Holmes, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Uppsala University
    Presenter: Merel Kindt, D. Phil. – University of Amsterdam
    Presenter: Graham R. Thew, D. Phil. (he/him/his) – University of Oxford, UK
    Basic processes and experimental psychopathology
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 33 - From Trying to Conceive to Postpartum: Evidence-Based Approaches to Peripartum Mental Health
    Chair: Neda Kharrazi, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
    Discussant: Maureen Satyshur, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Presenter: Neda Kharrazi, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine, Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
    Presenter: Elsa Rojas-Ashe, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Presenter: Connor Adams, Psy.D. (She/They) – Stanford University
    Presenter: Christina T. Khan, M.D., Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine
    Behavioral medicine, chronic illness, and integrated primary care
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 9 - Expanding Access to High-Quality CBT: Preserving Mechanisms of Change Across Care Settings—Lessons from TEAM-CBT
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 20 - Youth Resilience and Adjustment: Trauma, Identity, Stress, and Skills-Based Interventions
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 20 - Youth Resilience and Adjustment: Trauma, Identity, Stress, and Skills-Based Interventions
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 12 - Chain Analysis in Practice: Understanding and Reordering the Dominos
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 13 - Getting Out of the Office: Making Interpersonal Exposure Work in the Real World
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 14 - Seeing Clearly Under Emotional Stress: A CBT-Informed Skills Class for Preemptive Relationship Resilience and Suicide Prevention
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 15 - Targeting Rumination as a Transdiagnostic Mental Habit: Practical Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies Across Disorders
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 3 - Building Capacity through Community-Based Care: Adapting and Implementing Problem Management Plus (PM+) for Diverse US Contexts
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Keynote 10 - One Size Fits None: Why an Idionomic Revolution is Necessary for Our Field
  • 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM PDT
    World Congress Signature Event & Dinner