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Next Level: Exploring Options Beyond Outpatient Care

Beyond Symptom Management: Addressing Transdiagnostic Factors in Chronic Depression and Anxiety

Kerry Horrell, PhD
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify transdiagnostic difficulties surrounding personality functioning, shame, and emotion regulation that may contribute to chronic depression, anxiety, and recurrent clinical crises.

  • Differentiate the clinical priorities of acute stabilization from the longer-term treatment of personality pathology, including when stabilization should take precedence and when deeper therapeutic work can be pursued.

  • Recognize clinical indicators that a patient's needs may exceed the scope of traditional outpatient treatment and describe how higher levels of care can support stabilization and longer-term therapeutic progress.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this session is to help clinicians recognize when chronic depression and anxiety may reflect underlying difficulties in personality functioning, shame, and emotion regulation, and to differentiate care that patients need during acute stabilization, longer-term personality-focused treatment, and on-going outpatient therapy.

Description

This presentation explores how chronic depression and anxiety may reflect underlying transdiagnostic difficulties in personality functioning, shame, and emotion regulation that contribute to persistent symptoms and recurrent crises. Participants will learn to recognize these patterns and use them to refine case formulation, particularly when considering the distinct clinical needs of acute stabilization versus long-term treatment of personality pathology. The presentation will also address how clinicians can determine when outpatient treatment is no longer sufficient and when a higher level of care may provide the structure and multidisciplinary support needed for stabilization and meaningful long-term change.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Kerry Horrell, PhD
Kerry Horrell, PhD is the Inpatient Services Coordinator and a staff psychologist at The Menninger Clinic and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Baylor College of Medicine. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine and her master’s and doctorate degrees in Clinical Psychology from Rosemead School of Psychology at Biola University. Dr. Horrell also completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship at The Menninger Clinic, where she worked primarily with the young adult units. Her areas of interest surround gender and sexuality, religion and spirituality, and the assessment and treatment of shame, trauma, and attachment problems.

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  • Yellowbrick