Charlie Waller Institute

Time: 9:30am - 4.30pm

1-day workshop presented by Professor Anke Ehlers

This workshop builds on Ehlers and Clark’s (2000) cognitive model of PTSD. This model suggests that people with PTSD perceive a serious current threat that has two sources; excessively negative appraisals (personal meanings) of the trauma and/or its sequelae; characteristics of trauma memories that lead to re-experiencing the symptoms. Techniques used in the treatment are described and illustrated with clinical material and videotapes.

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Time: 10.00am – 4.00pm

1 day workshop presented by Professor Glenn Waller

This workshop will take place online

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1 day workshop presented by Dr Ruth Baer.

MBCT is a family of evidence-based skills training programmes that combine mindfulness meditation practices with cognitive-behavioural exercises to reduce distress and increase well-being. Rooted in both contemplative traditions and psychological science, MBCT programmes are typically provided in group format with weekly sessions exploring a sequence of themes designed to build skills over time. This one-day workshop provides an introduction to MBCT. After briefly exploring its history and origins, we will consider its theoretical foundations and the evidence base supporting its effects. Important topics in the research literature will be discussed, including outcomes, mechanisms of change, and potential adverse effects. Mindfulness practices and exercises will encourage an experiential understanding of mindfulness and the intended learning that may arise.

Cost including refreshments and CPD certificate is £130.00

This workshop will run from 9:30 until 4:30, with registration opening from 9:00.

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Timings of the event: 10.00 am – 4.00 pm

1-day workshop presented by Professor Rory O’Connor

Suicide and self-harm are major public health concerns with complex aetiologies which encompass a multifaceted array of risk and protective factors. There is growing recognition that we need to move beyond psychiatric categories to further our understanding of the pathways to both. In this workshop, you will be helped to make sense of this complexity as well as highlighting the evidence of what works to prevent suicide.

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1 day workshop presented by Professor Shirley Reynolds

Behavioural activation (BA) is an effective treatment for depression in adults and can be adapted as a low-intensity treatment for depression in adolescents, providing an alternative to current evidence-based psychological therapies. It can be delivered in schools within Mental Health Support Teams and in the context of multi-disciplinary CAMHs may also be an appropriate part of a stepped care pathway for depression in adolescents. Brief BA is simple to explain and to understand and engagement in treatment is excellent. It is acceptable to young people and their parents and leads to reliable and clinically significant reductions in symptoms of depression and improved functioning. Brief BA can be used in schools and clinics and delivered by a range of professionals, who do not require specialist qualifications or extensive training.

Cost including refreshments and CPD certificate is £130.00

This workshop will run from 9:30 until 4:30, with registration opening from 9:00.

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Presented by Dr Victoria Pile. Emotional mental imagery is a powerful part of our mental landscape. Given its capacity to depict, process, and generate emotional events, mental imagery can have an important role in psychological therapies. Using psychological techniques to work with mental imagery –including distressing past images or a lack of positive future imagery –can be highly effective. Yet, techniques using mental imagery are often neglected in routine practice, in favour of verbally based techniques. This might be for several reasons, including concerns that mental imagery can be highly distressing for the client or lack of confidence in using imagery-based techniques. This workshop will provide an introduction to working with mental imagery in CBT and other psychotherapies. It aims to increase understanding of when and how to explore mental imagery with clients. There will be opportunities to formulate the role of imagery in client’s presenting difficulties as well as practice imagery-based techniques, for example imagery rescripting.

This workshop will run from 10:00am until 4:00pm.

Event time: 10.00am - 4.30pm

Presented by Sue Howson

1-day workshop presented by Chloe Chessell and Gemma Halliday

This workshop will take place online

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