Visiting Professionals... Opportunities for Learning and Collaboration
17 April 2019
Here at CCI we are continually looking at innovations in the field of psychology and ways we might be able to improve our practice, collaborate with other professionals, or contribute to advances in psychological interventions. In early April 2019, the team at CCI were fortunate to meet with Professor Bethany Teachman from the University of Virginia to discuss her work in the area of cognitive bias modification and learn more about the MindTrails Project. Professor Teachman works at the University of Virginia Program for Anxiety, Cognition and Treatment (PACT) lab, where she studies cognitive processes that contribute to the development and maintenance of psychopathology, particularly anxiety disorders. The lab has a particular focus on automatic cognitive processing, and trying to understand how thoughts that occur outside of our awareness or conscious control contribute to emotional dysregulation. Professor Teachman invited CCI staff to provide feedback around how cognitive biasing modification may be integrated into clinical practice in the future, while providing preliminary information about this area of research. Last October we were also lucky to have a visit from Professor Glenn Waller of the University of Sheffield to pr...