The Department of Psychology is pleased to welcome Steven D. Hollon, Ph.D., the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University, for this guest lecture. His presentation, “Reconceptualizing Depression (Everything I got Wrong about the “Disorder”)”, will occur on November 3 from 4:00-5:00pm in CUE 202 on the WSU Pullman campus.
Dr. Hollon was among the first researchers to use clinical trials to examine the efficacy of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for treating depression, and has authored classic studies comparing CBT to antidepressants. His research focuses on the nature and treatment of depression with an emphasis on the enduring effects of cognitive and behavioral interventions. He is a former editor of Cognitive Therapy and Research, past president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) and the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology (SSCP), and the former chair of the steering committee advising the APA on the development of clinical practice guidelines.
Hollon and his colleagues have shown that the cognitive and behavior therapies are as efficacious as and more enduring than antidepressant medications but emerging evidence suggests that nonpsychotic unipolar depression is neither a disease nor a disorder but rather an adaptation that evolved to solve complex problems.
