Posts tagged with 'conferences'
Leeds BABCP conference: therapeutic metaphors & stories (6th post)
2nd July 2012
I have already written about the pre-conference workshop I attended (on Fatigue) and the the first full day of the conference proper. Today's post looks at the second day of this annual BABCP get-together. As is true for all three days of the full conference, there are typically 15 or …
Leeds BABCP conference: 2 symposia on how CBT works, Paul Salkovskis plenary, the compassion special interest group (5th post)
30th June 2012
This year is the 40th annual British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference and it runs for for three full days plus the option of a one day pre-conference workshop. I've already written about the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Chronic fatigue" with Trudie Chalder. Despite the fact …
Leeds BABCP conference: workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome - new ways to improve outcomes? (4th post)
29th June 2012
I wrote yesterday on stress, abuse & mind-body links that might be relevant for some chronic fatigue syndrome sufferers. There is a good deal of research too on other - possibly linked - vulnerability factors that may predispose some people to later development of fatigue problems - including a number …
Leeds BABCP conference: workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome - stress, abuse & mind-body links (3rd post)
28th June 2012
I wrote yesterday about current outcomes achievable through using CBT or GET for chronic fatigue syndrome. The results of the PACE trial produced something of an outcry in several patient organizations. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), like for example chronic low back pain, is a very genuine disorder with major disabling …
Leeds BABCP conference: workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome - current CBT treatment results (2nd post)
27th June 2012
In yesterday's post, I described the pre-workshop publicity for this day on treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. How did I find the workshop in actual practice? Well, I enjoyed meeting Trudie Chalder. She came across as very alive, friendly, bright, knowledgeable. Great. And her two decades or so of dedicated …
Leeds BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome with Trudie Chalder (1st post)
26th June 2012
The 40th British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference is at Leeds University. As usual it's preceded by a choice of pre-conference workshops. Three of the nineteen initially on offer have been cancelled, but there's still a wealth of options. I'm due to go to Trudie Chalder, from …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD: site visit & discrimination (7th post)
6th June 2012
The previous post in this sequence reflecting on a trauma-focused CBT workshop looked in some detail at imaginal reliving/revisiting. This seventh & final post more briefly describes "site visits" and "discrimination training". Nick Grey, who ran the workshop, said that there are four ways that he works with trauma memories …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - imagined "reliving" (6th post)
25th May 2012
(A printable copy of this blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) This is the sixth post about this workshop on CBT memory-focused treatment for adults with PTSD. Earlier posts have looked at the workshop overall, discussed treatment structure, explored application for "non-PTSD …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - other applications (5th post)
8th May 2012
Last month I wrote a series of four blog posts about a CBT workshop on memory-focused for adults with PTSD (and a couple of posts about a personal experience of trauma). The third of these posts discussed how this kind of memory-focused approach could also be helpful for other types …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - writing suggestions (4th post)
16th April 2012
(A handout of the key points in this blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) I have written a series of blog posts on Nick Grey's expert workshop on CBT treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. The day's focus was particularly on treatment approaches …