2025 Virtual Series:
Tell Me More: Modern Approaches to Psychotherapy
About this Series:
All psychiatrists receive training in supportive, psychodynamic, and cognitive behavioral therapies during their residencies and fellowships. As with medications, though, the evidence base grows and changes with time. The “dosing” of therapy may change, and new modalities are developed to best treat specific conditions or concerns.
Join us for this year’s IPS virtual series as we learn about modern evidence-based psychotherapeutic modalities from the experts. This series will include information on exposure and response prevention, habit reversal therapy, trauma-informed care, cognitively-based compassion therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, and cognitive processing therapy. Learn about the overall structure of these therapies and their application for various psychiatric conditions. We hope you will join us as our presenters “tell us more!”
This is a 4-part series with sessions falling on the second Thursday of the month between January and April 2025. (01/09, 02/13, 03/13, 04/10) Sessions will run from 6:30-7:30 p.m.
Session 1:
Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders in Youth: Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) and Habit Reversal Training (HRT)
January 9, 2025 | 6:30-7:30 PM (CST)
Guest Speaker: Elizabeth Moroney, Ph.D.
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychologist, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
About this session: Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (such as body-focused repetitive behaviors) are common and can be extremely impairing in children, teens, and adults. This talk will provide an introduction to assessment and key treatment elements for gold-standard, evidence-based approaches to treating these conditions, with a focus on youth populations but with considerations for adults as well.
Dr. Elizabeth Moroney is a child and adolescent psychologist at Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. She holds an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed a two-year postbaccalaureate fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health where she got her start in clinical research with children and families, working on a multi-site twin study examining transdiagnostic markers of anxiety. She went on to complete her graduate training in Clinical Psychology at UCLA, benefitting from several clinical externships across settings in Los Angeles in addition to research training in the ADHD and Development lab under Dr. Steve Lee. Her predoctoral internship was at Stanford Children's Hospital and the Children's Health Council in the Bay Area and her two-year postdoctoral fellowship focused on pediatric OCD, anxiety, and tic disorders under Dr. Avital Falk at Weill Cornell Medical Center/New York Presbyterian Hospital. At Lurie, she treats children with OCD, complex anxiety, and tic disorders, as well as related conditions. She draws flexibly from several evidence-based approaches but relies most heavily on cognitive behavioral therapy including exposure and response prevention, as well as the Supportive Parenting in Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) protocol. In addition to individual therapy with children and parents, Dr. Moroney employs both intensive and group work for complex anxiety and OCD presentations. She is working to develop a clinical research program at Northwestern and has presented work at national and international conferences and has published in several peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests are focused on the clinical populations she serves; she is also interested in the use of technology in disseminating evidence-based skills as a means for improving the vast need for mental health services in youth.
Upcoming Sessions:
Session 2: Healing Centered Services
February 13, 2025 | 6:30-7:30 PM (CST)
Guest Speaker: Jeanné Hansen, LCSW, Executive Director, SIU School of Medicine Survivor Recovery Center
Session 3: TBD
Session 4: Three Compassionate Strategies for Improved Patient Encounters
April 10, 2025 | 6:30-7:30 PM (CST)
Guest Speaker: Jean Clore, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Associate Program Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program, University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.