News & Events - Clinical Psychology, PsyD FERKAUF SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGY Our Doctorate Program in Clinical Psychology is an APA accredited full-time doctoral degree. Get top clinical experience with practica & internship after completing the coursework. How to Apply Artificial Intelligence Biotechnology Computer Science Cybersecurity Data Analytics and Visualization Digital Marketing and Media Mathematics Occupational Therapy Physician Assistant Physics Speech-Language Pathology News and Events Fall 2024 Congratulations to all who attended the annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Conference that was held in Philadelphia in November! Students had the opportunity to attend talks, demonstrations panels, symposiums and poster sessions all about CBT practice and research across the lifespan, diagnoses, and identities. Joy Shen (4th year, PsyD program) and Rachel Fried (4th year, PsyD program) co-moderated a panel with Dr. Lata K. McGinn and colleagues on recent innovations in CBT and how to incorporate these trends into clinical practice. Joy Shen and Rachel Fried also authored a poster on learning lessons through implementing a universal prevention program, the M&M Program, with Dr. McGinn! Congratulations to Chayim Rosenweig (4th year, PsyD program) for presenting a poster based on his dissertation, supervised by Dr. Leanne Quigley, entitled "Temporal Self Appraisal as a Vulnerability Factor for Depression: A Prospective Longitudinal Study" at the annual convention at the ABCT! Congratulations to the many talks given by the MEAL lab members at the ABCT conference! Casey Stern (2nd year, PsyD program) chaired a symposium on diversity in eating disorder treatment. In the symposium, Casey presented data on the relationship between weight stereotypes and eating disorder recognition. Aspen Martin (2nd year, PsyD program) presented data on differences in the treatment experiences of White and Non-White individuals with eating disorders. Dr. Margaret Sala was the discussant. In addition, Dr. Sala gave a talk on repetitive negative thinking and its momentary relationship to eating disorder behaviors among individuals with eating disorders as part of a symposium on cognitive flexibility in eating disorders. Congratulations to Dr. Jamie Schumpf for presenting at the ABCT Conference on "Advocating for Diversity in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: A Case Study of the Diversity Action Committee Within the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies." Dr. Peter Franz also attended the conference in support of everyone's wonderful posters and presentations! Congratulations to Casey Stern! She will be chairing a symposium, with Dr. Sala as the discussant, at the 2024 Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference. The symposium will focus on diversity in eating disorders treatment, and Casey will present data on the relationship between weight stereotypes and eating disorder recognition in the general population. Casey also recently published a manuscript identifying emotion regulation difficulties in adults with ARFID. The article can be found here. The Risk Prediction and Prevention Laboratory (RiPPL) at Ferkauf had a fantastic first year, and the start of the second year has been equally exciting! The lab began recruitment for a new study, funded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, focused on developing an accessible digital intervention for suicidal thoughts among Bronx Adolescents. One of the lab's graduate students, Raya Kumar, successfully proposed her dissertation. The lab director, Dr. Peter Franz, was accepted as the chair of a symposium at the International Association for Suicide Prevention in Minneapolis this November. The title of the symposium is "Centering the experiences of marginalized communities in the development of accessible digital suicide risk interventions." An article on suicide prevention in treatment-resistant depression by Dr. Franz and Dr. Jonathan Alpert, chair of Montefiore's psychiatry Department, was featured on the cover of a recent issue of Psychiatric Times. Finally, Dr. Franz was appointed as the next chair of APA Division 29's Early Career Professionals Domain. In that role, Dr. Franz will lead programming aiming to support early career psychologists. Congratulations to Aspen Martin on the acceptance of her talk titled “Treatment Experiences of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Participants with Eating Disorders” at the 2024 Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT)! She will be presenting as part of the symposium titled "Diversity in Eating Disorders Treatment: Understanding Divergent Experiences and Working Towards Equitable Care" (chaired by Casey Stern). Summer 2024 Congratulations to Dr. Critchfield for releasing his book Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB): A Primer for Clinical Use! SASB can help identify connections between a patient's current symptoms and their current and historical relationship patterns. The book summarizes over 50 years of research and clinical practices with SASB, and demonstrate how it can be used with any therapeutic approach! (more details here) Dr. Bloch-Elkouby's lab celebrated the publication of eight papers, either authored or co-authored by lab members (some still in press)! These works include empirical studies, encyclopedia entries, and a book chapter which explore topics such as suicide theories, risk identification tools, suicide-specific interventions, and the therapeutic alliance with high-risk patients. Additionally, Dr. Bloch-Elkouby presented preliminary findings from her AI study on racial disparities in suicide risk assessment and therapeutic alliance at the annual meetings of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America and the Society for Psychotherapy Research. Alexis Aberman, a rising 3rd year doctoral student in the lab, presented an excellent poster on the role of self-compassion in suicide-specific interventions. Dr. Bloch-Elkouby's Bergin and Garfield Emerging Scholar Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research, initially received in June 2023, has been renewed for the academic year 2024-2025. A big thank you to the graduate students, coordinators, and research assistants of the Bloch-Elkouby Lab for their hard work! Congratulations to Ferkauf students Sarah Horne, Raya Kumar, and Chayim Rosensweig for presenting their dissertation research at the third annual Psychiatry Research Institute at Montefiore Einstein (PRIME) Research Day poster exhibition on May 16, 2024. Spring 2024 Congratulations to Cate Goldman and Ron Nicholson for having their posters accepted for upcoming conferences!Cate Goldman's dissertation research, "Longing for Those Lost: Yearning, Depression, Personality, and Prolonged Grief during Covid-19," was accepted by Div12, Clinical Psychology, as a poster presentation.Ron Nicholson's dissertation research, "Differences in Life Satisfaction after Trauma Across the Lifespan and Between Generations," was accepted by Div12, Adult Development and Aging, as a poster presentation.Both posters will be presented at the upcoming annual meeting at the American Psychological Association in Seattle WA, in August 2024.
