Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2023

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Scott Hall - 2nd Floor - Room 2268

Speaker:

John C. Markowitz, MD

Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons 

Research Psychiatrist 

New York State Psychiatric Institute 

New York, NY

Commercial Relationships:

Minor Book Royalties: American Psychiatric 

Publishing, Basic Books, and Oxford University Press

Topic:

"Affect-Focused Versus Exposure-Focused Psychotherapies"

Objectives:

1. Be able to identify differences between two broad domains of psychotherapies, affect-focused and exposure-focused, and name examples of each. 

2.  Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of each psychotherapeutic approach.

3.  Apply this knowledge to the target disorder of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).