UMR Professor Stefan Hofmann speaking at Nobel Forum

The KI Psychology Speaker Series at Nobel Forum features some of the most influential researchers in mind, brain and behavior. Stefan Hofmann is talking about Improving Psychotherapy from Molecules to Models.

Psychotherapy, and especially CBT, is one of the great success stories of psychiatry. However, treatment efficacy has not been improving over the last few decades. Dr. Hofmann will discuss 3 strategies to improve CBT, especially for mood and anxiety.

First, insights from translational research and neuroscience can augment existing strategies, even on the molecular level.
Second, theory-informed novel therapeutic strategies can enhance treatment success.
Third, and perhaps most importantly, we need to revisit and improve some of our basic models and paradigms that serve as the basis for CBT. This moves us toward process-based therapy (PBT), requiring high-density longitudinal idiographic data to capture the complexity of psychopathology using a dynamic network approach within the general framework of evolutionary science.

Dr. Hofmann will conclude that CBT can be improved through translational research while embracing an evolutionary model toward psychopathology and treatment change.

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