Keynote Speakers and workshop leaders

Keynote title: Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Profiles, Risks and Clinical Opportunities

Anne Marie Albano, Ph.D., is the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders (CUCARD) Professor of Medical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Founder of CUCARD, and Clinical Site Director of New York Presbyterian Hospital’s Youth Anxiety Center. She is co-author of cognitive behavioral treatment manuals and the Anxiety and Related Disorders Interview Schedule for Children. Dr. Albano was Principal Investigator for multiple NIH funded studies examining the relative efficacy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, medication, combination treatment, and pill placebo in youth suffering with anxiety and depression. She is a TEDMED speaker, co-host of the podcast for parents of emerging adults entitled “Listen More”, and author of the popular press book You and Your Anxious Child: Free Your Child from Fears and Worries and Create a Joyful Family Life. At some future time when Anne Marie leaves the faculty of Columbia University, the CUCARD Professorship will be renamed for her, a distinct honor to commemorate her contributions to the field and for training a multitude of clinicians and clinical scientists in psychology, psychiatry and social work.

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Keynote title: Internet-delivered CBT: state of the art and future challenges

Gerhard Andersson is professor in clinical psychology and has developed evidence-based Internet treatments for various conditions such as depression and anxiety disorders for more than 20 years (www.gerhardandersson.se). He is also trained as CBT-therapist and supervisor.

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Keynote title: There are Benefits when Therapists Walk the Talk: But Questions Remain

James Bennett-Levy is Professor in Mental Health and Psychological Wellbeing at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is a recognised leader in the field of therapist training. His influential models of therapist skill development – the Declarative-Procedural-Reflective model (2006, 2007, 2009) and the Personal Practice model (2018, 2019) have been widely adopted internationally, as has his pioneering self-experiential approach to therapist training, known as self-practice/self-reflection (SP/SR) (2001-2022). He has co-authored 5 books for therapists: the Oxford Guides to Behavioural Experiments (2004), to Low Intensity CBT Interventions, (2010), and to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy (2011), and two self-practice/self-reflection (SP/SR) books for therapists: Experiencing CBT from the Inside Out (2015) and Experiencing Compassion Focused Therapy from the Inside Out (2018).

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Keynote title: Integrating emotion regulation training in the treatment of adolescents

Researching and teaching developmental and clinical aspects of childhood therapy with focus on depression and eating problems. As licensed cognitive behaviour therapist, she is involved in postgraduate courses on ‘Behaviour Therapy’ and ‘Clinical assessment in children’ and she is coordinator, supervisor & therapist of children and adolescents with mental health problems in the Ghent University Child Mental Health Centre situated in the university. She wrote more than >200 A1 peer reviewed publications and 20 books. A link to professional website:
https://www.vopspsy.ugent.be/en/clinical-developmental-psychology.html www.kindenadolescent.be

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Keynote title: A (wo)man is not alone on an island: the sustainability of our interventions and why it is time to 'zoom' out

As scientist practitioner and a professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at Amsterdam University Medical Centers/co-director the interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Mental Health at the University of Amsterdam her focus is on common mental health disorders (such as depression and relapse prevention (for a personal profile in Lancet Psychiatry see: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(20)30562-9/fulltext).
She studies with her team potentially modifiable etiological factors of onset, relapse and chronicity using an interdisciplinary complex systems approach. She is a (co-)author of 170 peer reviewed publications. She developed PCT implemented in clinical guidelines (English; under review, Spanish, 2021, Dutch 2009) and wrote several chapters on relapse prevention for English textbooks (e.g. The Oxford Handbook of Mood Disorders). She was the main editor of 11 clinical handbooks including treatment manuals. In addition, she developed several other treatment manuals for common mental health conditions, including einterventions and chatbots (fellow at the World Health Organisation). In 2014 she was awarded with a Fellowship at Beck Institute International Scholarship Philadelphia. For more information see www.claudibockting.com

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Trudie Chalder is Professor of Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapy at King’s College London. She develops cognitive behavioural models for understanding and treating somatic symptoms such as fatigue and evaluates such approaches in randomised controlled trials. Not only is she interested in whether something works but how it works and for whom. She has trained and supervised many practitioners over the years and is passionate about implementation of evidence-based treatments across the National Health Service

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Keynote title: Re- thinking the future: Strategies to maximize the global impact of the CBTs

Dr. Dobson is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Calgary. His research has focused on both models and the treatment of depression, particularly using cognitive-behavioural therapies. Dr. Dobson’s research has resulted in over 300 published articles and 80 chapters, 17 books, and conference and workshop presentations in many countries. His recent books include the Handbook of Cognitive-behavioral Therapies, 4th Edition (2019) and The Stigma of Mental Illness (2021). In recognition of his work he has received numerous awards, including Fellow status in the Academy of Cognitive- behavioral Therapy, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and the Royal Society of Canada.

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Keynote title: Targeting Neuroticism in Psychological Treatment: A Unified Transdiagnostic Approach

Dr. Farchione is currently a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University (BU). He has been a member of the clinical research group at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at BU (CARD) for nearly twenty years. He currently directs a transdiagnostic research program at BU focusing on emotion regulation processes, identifying mechanisms of change in treatment, and on developing new preventative measures and improved treatments for emotional disorders. Dr. Farchione is one of the co-developers of the UP and has collaborated with Dr. Barlow and others on research aimed at the development and evaluation of this treatment protocol. He has also worked extensively with this intervention clinically and has considerable experience training and supervising clinicians in the use of this protocol.

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Keynote title: Compassion as an integrative process in psychotherapy

Paul Gilbert, FBPsS, PhD, OBE is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Derby and honorary visiting Prof at the University of Queensland. Until his retirement from the NHS in 2016 he was Consultant Clinical Psychologist for over 40 years. He has researched evolutionary approaches to psychopathology with a special focus on mood, shame and self-criticism in various mental health difficulties for which Compassion Focused Therapy was developed. He was made a Fellow of the British Psychological Society in 1993, president of the BABCP 2002-2004, and was a member of the first British Governments’ NICE guidelines for depression. He has written/edited 23 books and over 250 papers and book chapters. In 2006 he established the Compassionate Mind Foundation as an international charity with the mission statement To promote wellbeing through the scientific understanding and application of compassion.

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Keynote title: Can Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis be safe and effective without concurrent antipsychotic medication?

Tony Morrison is a Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Manchester and also Director of the Psychosis Research Unit at Greater Manchester Mental Health Foundation Trust. He has published widely on cognitive therapy for psychosis with over 200 articles on cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis and experimental studies of cognitive processes in psychosis, including an influential cognitive model of psychosis, and has conducted numerous randomised controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy for psychosis, including the only trials to compare CBT with antipsychotic medication in head-to-head comparisons. He has recently been a member of 2 NICE guideline development groups for psychosis and schizophrenia in adults and children/young people.

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Keynote title: Somatic complaints and the Body: A New Look on their Relationship

Omer Van den Bergh is emeritus professor of health psychology at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He has been trained as a CBT-therapist and has extensive clinical experience in treating patients with stress-related problems, somatization disorder and medically unexplained symptoms in primary and secondary care. http://www.kuleuven.be/wieiswie/en/person/00005032

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Keynote title: Trauma-focused treatments for PTSD in refugees and asylum seekers

Kerry Young is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead of the Woodfield Trauma Service in London, UK, a leading centre for the treatment of asylum seekers and refugees suffering from PTSD. She also works at the Oxford Rose Clinic, a service for the medical and psychological treatment of women who have experienced Female Genital Mutilation. She has advised national bodies on how to train clinicians to work with refugees, PTSD and Complex PTSD. Kerry is an expert in mental imagery techniques, particularly imagery re-scripting, and its life-changing use with clients who have experienced complex trauma. She has published in the field of trauma and mental imagery

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