Brief CBT and Science-Based Tailoring for Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults

Dr. Thompson Davis III is Professor of Psychology (Child Clinical) and Department Chair at the University of Alabama, and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Louisiana State University.  Dr. Davis specializes in One-Session Treatment (OST) for specific phobia and other exposure therapies, the intersection of autism and anxiety, as well as broader transdiagnostic issues related to developmental psychopathology.  In addition to over 100 published articles and chapters and 2 books, he has been a part of the two largest international grants to investigate the efficacy and effectiveness of brief, intensive therapies for specific phobia in youth.  He is a Fellow of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, the Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, Cognitive Therapy and Research, the Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, and Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review. Dr. Eric Storch is Professor and McIngvale Presidential Endowed Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He serves as Vice Chair and Head of Psychology, and co-directors the Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders program at BCM. Dr. Storch specializes in the nature and treatment of childhood and adult obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorders, PTSD, and anxiety among youth with autism. In addition to over 900 published articles and chapters and 20 books, he has received multiple federal grants to investigate treatment efficacy, mechanisms of action, genetics, bioethics, innovative approaches to phenotyping, and how to enhance outcomes for those struggling with OCD and related conditions. Dr. Storch edits several journals (Child Psychiatry and Human Development, Children’s Health Care, and Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy), and serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, Cognitive Therapy and Research, and Clinical Psychology Review.

• Fresh Squeezed Into Concentrate Brief Intensive and Concentrated Treatments.- The Ethics and Experience of Brief Therapy The Case of Exposure Therapy.- Cost Effectiveness of Brief Cognitive Behavior Therapy.- Current State of the Science of Brief Concentrated and Intensive Treatments.- Specific Phobias.- Intensive Treatment of Childhood Selective Mutism.- Intensive Treatments for Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.- Using Summer Camps as Opportunities to Provide Brief Interventions.- Brief Therapy for Childhood Separation Anxiety Disorder.- Brief Treatments for Social Anxiety Disorder.- Brief and or Intensive Parent Training.- Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Pediatric Health Conditions.- Digital Single Session Interventions for Youth Mental Health.- Integrating Pharmacotherapy into Brief Interventions for Child and Adolescent Treatment.- Suicide and Crisis Intervention.- Use of Technology in Brief Interventions.- Multicultural Findings and Considerations from Brief Interventions.- Brief and Intensive Treatments Slow and Low is Not the Tempo.