Enhancing CBT Through Family and Peer Engagement

Dr. Lillian Reuman is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is an Assistant Professor at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. Dr. Reuman’s clinical work and research is dedicated to understanding and treating transdiagnostic fear-based disorders. Her mixed methods clinical research aims to directly improve the lives of individuals living with anxiety and those who interact with them.  Dr. Reuman has extensive clinical training in evidence-based treatments and has provided clinical care across a range of settings. She has conducted, presented, and published research in national and international venues. Dr. Reuman has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and chapters on cognitive behavioral processes and treatments.Dr. Johanna Thompson-Hollands is a licensed clinical psychologist. She is a staff investigator in the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System and an Associate Professor of psychiatry at the Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. Dr. Thompson-Hollands is an expert in the field of PTSD intervention; her research focuses on the role of social factors in treatment and how best to incorporate significant others into care to improve patient outcomes. She is the developer of a brief family intervention protocol that is meant to support patients as they undergo exposure-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has received multiple grants for her work from the National Institute of Mental Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs.

• Part I: Assessment.- Chapter 1: Multi-informant Adult and Couple Assessment.- Chapter 2: Child Assessment with Corroborative Parent Report.- Part II: Interventions with Adults.- Chapter 3: Weekly Outpatient Conjoint Treatment for Adult Psychopathology.- Chapter 4: Intensive Multi-couple Group Treatment.- Chapter 5: Family-only Adjunctive Treatment.- Chapter 6: Community-based Family-inclusive Treatment.- Chapter 7: Dyadic Treatment in the Context of Medical Concerns.- Part III: Interventions with Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 8: Parent Involvement in Weekly Outpatient Treatment.- Chapter 9: Parent-Only Treatment of Children and Adolescents.- Chapter 10: Technology Enabled Behavioral Parent Training.- Chapter 11: Family involvement in DBT for adolescents within a partial hospitalization program setting.- Part IV: Interventions with Peers.- Chapter 12: Peer-supported Treatment for Adults.- Chapter 13: Peer-Supported School-Based Treatment for Adolescents.