Managing Sad Thoughts and Feelings and the Desire Not to Get Out of Bed
Join this Hoos Well reward-eligible webinar, co-sponsored by the UVA Provost’s Faculty Guide Program and part of UVA FEAP and Hoos Well’s "Thrive Together" series of monthly reward-eligible webinars on enhancing mental health and social & emotional well-being.
Learning Objectives
- Learn how to change negative thinking patterns so sad thoughts are less overwhelming.
- Learn ways to reduce the tendency to withdraw and hide away when you are sad.
- Learn how to break big challenges into small, manageable steps to help overcome low motivation.
About Your Presenter
Bethany Teachman is a Commonwealth Professor of Psychology and the Director of Clinical Training at the University of Virginia in the Department of Psychology and co-directs UVA TYDE: Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment. Dr. Teachman is Director of MindTrails, a web- and app-based research infrastructure that has offered digital interventions to reduce anxious thinking to thousands of visitors around the world, and Project Implicit Health, an educational website where over a million visitors have assessed their implicit associations tied to mental and physical health topics.
Dr. Teachman has received the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology Distinguished Scientist Award, a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association, multiple national mentoring awards, and she is a Fellow of multiple associations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Teachman currently serves on the Board of the Society for Digital Mental Health, and she was the inaugural Chair of the Coalition for the Advancement and Application of Psychological Science.