Join us on Wednesday, October 1st, as the AVA Webinar Series presents Implementing Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for Youth in Specialized Settings, featuring Dr. David Lindenbach from the University of Calgary & Hull Services.
Wednesday, October 1st, 2025
12 – 1:30pm MST
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has the strongest evidence base among psychotherapy programs and is a first-line treatment for many mental health conditions across the lifespan. Accordingly, CBT is commonly used with youth in the child welfare system even though there is little research conducted on CBT in the child welfare system. This talk will highlight the adaptation, implementation and evaluation of transdiagnostic CBT for youth at Hull Services, a non-profit youth mental health provider in Calgary that works with many families in the child welfare system. We discuss modifications made for CBT delivery at Hull Services in: therapeutic campus-based care (aka, residential treatment), a school for students with exceptional needs, and a family-based program for Indigenous peoples.
About the Speaker
David Lindenbach is the Director of Research at Hull Services and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Calgary. He leads a community-based research program that uses transdiagnostic approaches to investigate the prevention and treatment of developmental trauma. The research is problem-focused, so it is designed to improve care locally at Hull Services while providing generalizable research knowledge that moves the whole youth mental health field forward. In less than two years as a new investigator, he has raised over $500,000 in grants as lead applicant, and has developed new lines of research into: implementing CBT and the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics, co-designing therapeutic recreation programs and supports for the transition to adulthood, and using reflective practice to support staff wellness.