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  • Saturday, June 27, 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 - 7:00 PM PDT
    Gender Neutral Bathrooms
  • 7:30 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Congress Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM PDT
    Wellness Room
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Keynote 16 - From Theory to Practice: Understanding Grief and Healing in Chinese Bereavement
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Keynote 17 - Single-Session Interventions as a Mental Health Moonshot
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM PDT
    Symposium 35 - Innovations in CBT delivery for Older Adults
    Chair: Carly Johnco, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Macquarie University
    Discussant: Louise Sharpe, Ph.D. – University of Sydney
    Presenter: Sherry A. Beaudreau, ABPP, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – VA Palo Alto Health Care System/Stanford
    Presenter: Carly Johnco, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Macquarie University
    Presenter: Viviana Wuthrich, Ph.D., Other (she/her/hers) – Macquarie University
    Aging and Lifespan Psychology
     Earn 1 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 11 - Enhancing Psychological Care in the Psychiatric Inpatient Setting
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 12 - When Translation Is Not Enough: Diversity-Related Communication Barriers and Adaptations in CBT for Culturally Diverse and Neurodivergent Individuals
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    3 Minute Open Paper Group 4 - Innovations and Real-World Applications of CBT and Psychosocial Interventions in Youth Mental Health
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 34 - Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult ADHD and Related Populations: From Efficacy to Implementation Across Cultures
    Chair: Russell Ramsay, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – independent practice
    Discussant: Laura Knouse, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Richmond
    Presenter: Carlos López-Pinar, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – European University of Valencia
    Presenter: Russell Ramsay, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – independent practice
    Presenter: Misuzu Nakashima, Ph.D., Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – Kyushu University
    Presenter: Tsuyoshi Oguro, M.A. (he/him/his) – Free Style Psychological Counseling Office
    Presenter: Junichiro Kanazawa, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Health Sciences University of Hokkaido
    Neurodevelopmental and autism spectrum disorders
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 36 - Anxiety and Depression Across the Lifespan: From Early Risk to Evidence-Based Prevention and Intervention
    Chair: Satoko Sasagawa, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Mejiro University
    Chair: Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Doshisha University
    Discussant: Jill Ehrenreich-May, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Miami
    Presenter: Satoko Sasagawa, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Mejiro University
    Presenter: Shin-ichi Ishikawa, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Doshisha University
    Presenter: Chuong Hock Ting, M.D. – Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
    Presenter: Cecilia A. Essau, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Roehampton
    Child and adolescent mental health
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 21 - Examining Models, Competencies, and Predictors of Outcomes in Transdiagnostic CBT
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 21 - Examining Models, Competencies, and Predictors of Outcomes in Transdiagnostic CBT
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 22 - Eating Disorders: Assessment, Treatment Approaches, and Therapist Perspectives
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 22 - Eating Disorders: Assessment, Treatment Approaches, and Therapist Perspectives
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Open Paper Group 23 - Dissemination and Implementation Science in CBT
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Skills Class 16 - An evidence-informed PRACTICE course for individual and organizational well-being
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Panel Discussion 9 - Global Collaboration in Action and the Future of CBT Worldwide
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Technical Demonstration 2 - Moku: A No-Code RLHF Platform for Developing Clinically-Safe AI CBT interventions
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM PDT
    Symposium 7 - Enhancing Reward Processing to Improve Treatment Outcomes for Anxiety and Depression
    Chair: Allison Waters, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Griffith University
    Discussant: Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D. – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenter: Allison Waters, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Griffith University
    Presenter: Aleeza West, B.A. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenter: Brooke Cullen, M.A. (she/her/hers) – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenter: Charles T. Taylor, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of California San Diego
    Anxiety disorders
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
    Master Clinician 2 - Positive Affect Treatment for Depression and Anxiety
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
    Master Clinician 3 - Preventive Cognitive Therapy for Depression: An Evidence-Based Approach to Reduce Relapse Risk: why and how
  • 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
    Master Clinician 5 - Why Your Patients Really Don't Get Better
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Empirically-Supported Assessment and Treatment of Functional Impairments in Executive Function and Organizational Skills in ADHD and Related Disorders in Children and Teens
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Metacognitive Therapy for Health Anxiety
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Mindfulness Intervention for Emotional Distress
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Providing Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Patients with Severe Obesity across Settings
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Resilience for Trauma-Informed Professionals: Protecting Clinicians and Researchers from the Effects of Exposure to Secondary Traumatic Stress
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 10 - Exposure Therapy for Eating and Weight Disorders: Evidence, Practice, and Challenges
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 11 - Evidence Based Management of Intimate Partner Violence Against Women
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 7 - Preventing and Repairing Ruptures in the Therapeutic Relationship for Clients with Personality Disorders
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 9 - Context Matters: Cognitive and Behavioral Intervention with At-Risk Populations in the Global South
  • 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Exhibits
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 18 - Advancing Research on Suicide Risk and Prevention in LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults: Challenges and Future Directions
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 19 - Amplifying and Extending the Framework of Treatment
  • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
    Symposium 38 - Evaluating the Implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) for Children and Adolescents in Puerto Rico
    Chair: Emily Sáez-Santiago, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
    Discussant: Keishalee Gómez-Arroyo, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Puerto Rico
    Presenter: Emily Sáez-Santiago, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus
    Presenter: Camile Borja, B.S. (she/her/hers) – University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
    Presenter: Eduardo Cumba-Avilés, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
    Child and adolescent mental health
     Earn 1 Credit
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 10 - Doing more with less:using low intensity, digital and task shifting approaches to improve access to psychological therapies globally
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 13 - Culturally Enhanced CBT: Current Limitations of the CTRS
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 14 - Empowering Adults with Mental Health Disorders through Personalized Advances in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 37 - Broadening the Reach of CBT for Hoarding and OCD: Engagement, Equity, and Sustainable Care
    Chair: Richard Moulding, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Cairnmillar Institute
    Discussant: Guy Doron, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Reichman University
    Presenter: Jessica Grisham, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – UNSW Sydney
    Presenter: Richard Moulding, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Cairnmillar Institute
    Presenter: Maja Nedeljkovic, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Swinburne University of Technology
    Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 24 - CBT Outcomes, Digital Interventions, and Resilience in Older Adults
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 25 - Mechanisms of Change, Dropout, and Theoretical Debates in Transdiagnostic CBT
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 26 - School-Based Mental Health: Interventions, Staff Training, and Youth Well-Being
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 17 - Elephant in the Therapy Room: Conversations about Race, Ethnicity, and Culture in CBT Practice
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 18 - Melting Away Resistance in Treating Eating Disorders
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 8 - Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Develop a Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Psychotherapy Curriculum
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM PDT
    Technical Demonstration 3 - Demonstrating Scalable CBT and Psychological First Aids in Humanitarian Crises: Media-Based and Virtual Training Approaches Following Earthquake and Political Violence in Myanmar
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 12 - Scaling EBPTs: A Transnational Dialogue on Addressing Barriers and Accelerating Reform
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 20 - How One RCT Sparked a Global CBT Movement
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Quality CBT Without Borders: Implementing WCCBT’s Global Training Standards
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 12 - Designing Real-Time Research: Practical Approaches to Ecological Momentary Assessment
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 13 - An evidence-based approach to treating fears of recurrence and disease progression in chronic physical conditions
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Traditional Workshop 14 - Using the Implementation Research Logic Model (IRLM) to Effectively Implement EBTs in Your Organization
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 21 - These Once Innovative Ideas Now Need to be Radically Applied
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 22 - The Friendship Bench: Reaching A Million People-Lessons Learnt
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 11 - Health for All in Africa: From Roundtable to Roadmap for a Trans-African CBT Regional Association
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 39 - The Kids FACE FEARS pragmatic randomized effectiveness study of therapist-led vs guided online CBT for pediatric anxiety: Overview, main findings, and secondary outcomes
    Chair: Alyssa M. Farley, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Boston University
    Discussant: Anne Marie Albano, ABPP, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Medical Center
    Presenter: Donna B. Pincus, Ph.D. – Boston University
    Presenter: Jonathan S. Comer, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Florida International University
    Presenter: Jami M. Furr, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) – Florida International University
    Presenter: Adelia Kamenetskiy, B.S. (she/her/hers) – Florida International University
    Child and adolescent mental health
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 40 - Prevention of Adolescent Depression in Primary Care Settings: Design, Methods, and Preliminary Findings of the Path 2 Purpose (P2P) Study.
    Presenter: Benjamin Van Voorhees, MD, MPH – University of Illinois at Chicago
    Presenter: Tracy Gladstone, Ph.D. – Brown University
    Child / Adolescent - Depression
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 27 - Exposure-Based, Intensive, and Digital Treatments for OCD and Related Disorders
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 28 - Basic and Experimental Processes: Cognitive Biases, Attention, and Learning Mechanisms
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 29 - Family and Caregiver Interventions: Spotlight on Parenting and Caregiver Well-Being
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 30 - Sexual Wellbeing and Relational Skills: CBT Approaches Across Diverse Populations
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 30 - Sexual Wellbeing and Relational Skills: CBT Approaches Across Diverse Populations
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 19 - Advanced Clinical Consultation: Ultra-Rapid CBT Intervention and Skill Development
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 20 - Clinical Discernment in an Information-Saturated World: A CBT-Informed Approach
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 21 - Coping when the Struggle is Real: Telling Youth and Family Stories with Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 22 - Don’t Let it Slide: Targeting Therapy Interfering Behaviors in DBT
  • 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM PDT
    Master Clinician 4 - Less Avoiding, More Doing: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workshop for Chronic “Later‑ers”
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy to Help Suicidal Patients Choose to Live (With an extra spotlight on vulnerable populations, including refugees, sexual minorities)
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Failing Better. Encouraging Adoption of CBT by Non-Psychologist Professionals Through a Competency-Focused Approach
  • 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    TEAM-CBT for Shame and Anxiety: A Blueprint for Helping Your Patients Heal
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 4 - The Science of Happiness: Experimentally Increasing Wellbeing Through Gratitude, Kindness, and Conversation Interventions
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 23 - Risk Factors that Predict Future Onset of Eating Disorders: Implications for Prevention
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PDT
    Keynote 24 - Cognitive-behavioural approaches for working with complexity in people with psychosis
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Panel Discussion 13 - Safety Behaviors vs Safety Signals in Exposure Therapy: Are Safety Behaviors Always Contraindicated?
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 15 - Psychopathology in Athletes: Strategies for Prevention, Treatment, and Wellbeing
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Clinical Round Table 16 - Severe and complex OCD: Multidisciplinary approach to behavioral treatment
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Symposium 10 - Creative Approaches to Exposure: Acceptability, Mechanisms, Effectiveness and Patient Experiences
    Chair: Jane Gregory, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Discussant: Michelle G. Craske, Ph.D. – University of California, Los Angeles
    Presenter: Jean-Philippe Gagné, Ph.D. (he/him/his) – Université du Québec à Montréal
    Presenter: Jennie M. Kuckertz, Ph.D. – McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School
    Presenter: Joon Lee, B.A. – Concordia University
    Presenter: Jane Gregory, Psy.D. (she/her/hers) – University of Oxford
    Transdiagnostic and therapeutic processes
     Earn 1.5 Credit
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Open Paper Group 31 - Social Anxiety: Mechanisms, Assessment, and Multi-Format Interventions
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 23 - CBT with Cognitive Training for children with ADHD
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 24 - Clinical Skills for Affirming CBT with Older Adults
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 25 - From Empathy to Change: Teaching TEAM-CBT Skills in Latin American Clinical Practice
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 26 - Identifying the Maintaining Mechanisms of a Cognitive-Behavioral Case Formulation
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 27 - Tic’d! Mastering the CBIT Protocol to Defeat the Global Tic Epidemic
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Skills Class 28 - Working with Existential Anxiety in CBT: Fear, Uncertainty, and Meaning
  • 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM PDT
    Technical Demonstration 5 - Behavior Analysis VR Learning Hub
  • 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM PDT
    World Congress Closing Ceremony