Recorded Previous Mental Health Lectures
Mental Health Lecture Series
Leading experts in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, and behavioral science share knowledge on a broad range of mental health topics in the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series. Each presentation has been recorded and grouped into topics.
These presentations are for educational purposes only and are not intended for medical diagnoses. If you have any persistent symptoms, please seek professional help.
Depression and Psychiatric Disorders Topics
I Am Not Sick; I Don’t Need Help: How to Help Someone Accept Treatment
Xavier Amador, PhD
Founder and President of the LEAP Institute, Author, and Clinical Psychologist
Dr. Amador will speak about research on the prevalence, etiology, and clinical significance of poor insight of persons with serious mental illness. He will discuss evidence that poor insight is a symptom of these disorders, not denial. He will introduce the LEAP (Listen-Empathize-Agree-Partner) strategy that helps people create relationships that lead to treatment, even when the person is suffering from anosognosia, and does not believe they are ill. LEAP is an evidence-based communication program that turns adversaries into partners. It can be used to help adolescents and young adults to accept treatment and to change maladaptive coping mechanisms. Xavier Amador, Ph.D., Founder and President of LEAP Institute is a world-renowned clinical psychologist, forensic expert, and author of nine books, including the best seller, "I Am Not Sick, I Don’t Need Help". Additionally, he has authored over 130 peer-reviewed scientific papers and has contributed his expertise to over 80 death penalty cases. Dr. Amador is also a family caregiver of two close relatives with schizophrenia, and another with bipolar disorder.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Youth: Pathways to Progress
Robert Friedberg, PhD, ABPP
Professor, Palo Alto University
Dr. Robert Friedberg asserts,“While the rates of depression were high prior to the pandemic, rates are expected to surge in the peri- and post-pandemic era. Therefore, identifying children at-risk for depressive disorders and providing proper care to them is imperative. Fortunately, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is an empirically supported psychosocial intervention for depression in youth. This webinar will discuss common signs of depression in youth, ways to identify these symptoms, and an overview of what parents and youth can expect from CBT oriented treatment.” The lecture includes a presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A session. Robert D. Friedberg, Ph.D., ABPP, is a Full Professor, Head of the Pediatric Behavioral Health Care Emphasis, Director of the Center for the Study and Treatment of Anxious Youth at Palo Alto University, a member of the Speakers’ Faculty at the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Friedberg is the author of eleven books. A new book on creative applications of CBT (with Dr. Erica Rozmid) is due to be published in 2022.
How Change Happens: Why Improvement in Our Mental Health Will Require Going Beyond Categories of Mental Illness
Steven Hayes, PhD
Foundation Professor of Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno
Dr. Steven Hayes will debunk the idea that mental health is merely the absence of mental disease. His talk will show that a simpler, more effective, and more practical alternative exists: focus on the processes of change that lead to human problems or human prosperity. He will describe the key features of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, a well-known method he originated 40 years ago. Dr. Hayes explains, “Almost everything we know about how psychological interventions work can fit into a simple process-based model to aid in human development.” The lecture includes a presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A session. Dr. Steven Hayes is the author of 47 books, including "Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life" (a best-selling self-help book), and his new book, "A Liberated Mind". An expert on the importance of acceptance, mindfulness and values, methods he developed are distributed worldwide by the World Health Organization and other major health agencies. He is ranked among the most cited psychologists in the world.
Dopamine Fasting: A Neuroscience-Informed Approach to Compulsive Overconsumption in a Digital Age
Anna Lembke, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, and Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic
Dr. Lembke explains, “This is a time of unprecedented access to high-reward, high-dopamine stimuli: drugs, food, news, gambling, shopping, gaming, texting, Facebooking, Instagramming, tweeting…the increased numbers, variety and potency are staggering. As such, we’ve all become vulnerable to compulsive overconsumption. Yet it is possible to find contentment and connectedness by keeping dopamine in check.” In this talk, Professor Lembke provides a practical, science-informed approach to addressing compulsive overconsumption of everything from food to sex, to video games. Dr. Lembke’s latest book, “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence” (Dutton/Penguin Random House, August 2021) was an instant New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller and has been translated into 30 languages. It combines the neuroscience of addiction with the wisdom of recovery to explore the problem of overconsumption in a dopamine-overloaded world.
OCD: A Broad Overview
Gerald Nestadt, MBBCh, MPH
Professor of Anxiety and OCD Research, Johns Hopkins University
Gerald Nestadt, MBBCh, MPH, will give a talk “OCD: A Broad Overview,” as part of the Alan Hu Foundation Mental Health Lecture Series. Dr. Nestadt will cover the history, phenomenology (the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience), epidemiology (the study of the distribution, determinants, and control of health-related states or events in populations), and treatment options for obsessive compulsive disorder. Alan Hu Foundation President Xiaofang Chen shared, “Many young people struggle with OCD. We want to offer help, hope, and support to them and their families. We appreciate Three Valleys Community Foundation for the generous grant to fund this webinar, and their commitment to mental health.” Gerald Nestadt is the Rudolf Hoehn-Saric MD and Evanne Hoehn-Saric MD Professor of Anxiety and OCD Research at Johns Hopkins University. He completed his medical training in South Africa and his psychiatric training at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institution in Baltimore. He pursued additional training in psychiatric epidemiology. His primary academic focus is OCD (genetics, epidemiology, and computational), and has led both university-based and national collaborative groups studying the genetics of OCD. In addition to research endeavors, he has directed the Hopkins OCD clinic and taught students and residents for the past forty years.
Pediatric Mood Disorders: Building on the Science of Resilience
Manpreet K. Singh, MD, MS
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child Psychiatry and Child Development) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital
Dr. Manpreet K. Singh, a renowned expert and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child Psychiatry and Child Development) at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital, will present a lecture on the topic of mood disorders in children and adolescents. Dr. Singh is director of the Pediatric Mood Disorders Program, director of the Pediatric Emotion And Resilience Lab (PEARL), Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine, Researcher at Stanford Maternal Child Health Research Institute, and a psychiatrist at the Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital. According to Dr. Singh’s Stanford Profile, she is extensively involved in collaborations aimed to investigate methods of treating problems associated with, and leading up to mood disorders in youth.
Precision Treatments for Depression: Are We Getting Closer?
Leanne Williams, PhD
Vincent V.C. Woo Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and Director of the Stanford Center for Precision Mental Health and Wellness
Dr. Williams explains, “Major depressive disorder remains a public health crisis. The burden of depression has the greatest impact on young people in their most productive years, and all too often the consequences are fatal.” Using neuroimaging and clinical measures, she has identified biotypes of depression and anxiety. She will discuss results from trials to understand which types of depression respond to different interventions and why, as well as opportunities to translate these results into clinical care. The webinar will include 15 minutes for questions and answers following Dr. Williams’s presentation. Dr. Williams wrote the first book on Precision Psychiatry, "Precision Psychiatry: Using Neuroscience Insights to Inform Personally Tailored, Measurement-Based Care" published by APA, and has contributed more than 380 scientific papers to the field.
Rapid Acting Therapeutics in Neuropsychiatry
Nolan Williams, MD
Psychiatrist, Neurologist, and Associate Professor at Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Every year, millions of patients seek treatment for depression, anxiety, and other psychiatric conditions. Existing therapies work for some, but over one-third exhaust treatment option after treatment option, with little or no relief. Life can become overwhelmingly frustrating. For some, this can be life-threatening. Dr. Williams will explain Stanford Accelerated Intelligent Neuromodulation Therapy (SAINT), a new form of individualized neurostimulation for treatment-resistant depression. In a double-blinded randomized controlled trial (RCT), 79% of participants receiving SAINT treatment achieved remission from depression following the five-day treatment protocol compared to just 13% in the sham group.1 The lecture includes a presentation followed by a 15 minute Q&A session. Dr. Williams is the founder and director of the Stanford Brain Stimulation Lab, and he has an extensive background in neuropsychiatry and is triple board-certified in general neurology, general psychiatry, and behavioral neurology & neuropsychiatry. He has specific training and clinical expertise in developing and implementing novel therapeutics, including devices and novel compounds for central nervous system illnesses. Themes of his work include examining the use of spaced learning theory in the application of neuromodulation techniques; development and mechanistic understanding of rapid-acting antidepressant therapies; and identifying objective biomarkers that predict responses to neuromodulation treatments. 1 https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2021.20101429
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