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April 23, 2025: Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karan on Mind on Mental Health Podcast - Part 3
In this final episode with Elizabeth Turk-Karan, PhD, she and host Andy Dean sit down to discuss how to go about finding effective treatment for anxiety disorders and what strategies tend to be the most helpful.
April 16, 2025: Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karan on Mind on Mental Health Podcast - Part 2
Overcoming anxiety often requires spending time purposefully being uncomfortable. Host Andy Dean and Elizabeth Turk-Karan, PhD explain exposure therapy and how it works for many who experience anxiety disorders.
April 8, 2025: Dr. Elizabeth Turk-Karan on Mind on Mental Health Podcast - Part 1
The first of a 3 part series on anxiety disorders with CTSA's Elizabeth Turk-Karan, Ph.D. Starting with the basics of defining the difference between the anxiety we all experience and debilitating anxiety disorder, host Andy Dean and Dr. Turk-Karan share their experiences working with patients whose disorder interferes with everyday life in many ways.
Sports fandom "meets a lot of psychological needs," says Sandy Capaldi, psychiatry professor and director of UPenn's Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety - chief among them, a sense of belonging. There can be drawbacks, too. Many fans are stressed and anxious during games. Capaldi says - and research backs that - only a sliver of fans suffer negative consequences or engage in…
"Getting access to treatment was bad enough before the pandemic, and it's only gotten worse," says the [CTSA]'s director, Dr. Lily Brown. "We keep adding staff but demand just keeps growing."
The Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety offers a number of professional workshops for mental health practitioners who are looking to extend their training in empirically-supported treatments for anxiety disorders. Our current workshop offerings include Prolonged Exposure (PE) for PTSD, PE Supervisor Workshops, and Exposure and Response Prevention (EX/RP) for OCD, among others. Please visit our Training Opportunities page to learn more.
