Pre-conference Workshop:

   Keynote addresses:

Treatment vs. Prevention: Obesity and World Nutrition as the Exemplar
Kelly Brownell

Symposia:

Thursday 17th July:

New Developments in HIV & Sexual Health
1) An evaluation of a brief motivational interviewing training course for HIV/AIDS counsellors in South Africa (Michael Evangeli)
2) Body image in gay men with HIV: a cognitive model (Jamie Kelly)
3) Mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for relapsing depression in patients who are HIV+ (Susan Hennessy)
4) SHIFT: A novel internet CCBT intervention for sexual health (John Green)

Friday 18th July:

Psychological Aspects of Gastroenterological Problems
1) Psychological Factors in Patients Receiving Treatment from an Anorectal Physiology Department (Stephanie Jones)
2) Predictors of symptom severity and social adjustment in irritable bowel syndrome: Do illness perceptions play a role? (Trudie Chalder)
3) Patients’ Experiences of the Referral Process for Psychological Intervention for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (Nicola Gawn)
4)Implications of new research for intervention in IBS (Jane Hutton)

Neuro-cognition, disability and challenges for the cognitive model in CBT
1) Obstacles to Effective Emotion Regulation: Implications for CBT (Barney Dunn)
2) “You looking at me?” Walking restrictions and social anxiety following traumatic brain injury:
A case study from cognitive-behavioural therapy. (Giles Yeates) 
3) Adapting cognitive therapy for people with intellectual disabilities: the example of
social anxiety (Dave Dagnan)
4) Application of CBT for Depression in Parkinson’s disease (Ken Laidlaw)

Saturday 19th July:

Cognitive Processes in Acute and Chronic Pain: Drawing Inspiration from Experimental and Clinical Work
(1) Possible selves and self-pain enmeshment (Stephen Morley)
(2) Pain Memory: Exploring the phenomenology at recall ( Eric Brodie)
(3) Mental Imagery in Chronic Pain (David Gillanders)
(4) Acceptance and the Experience of Chronic Pain: It’s Not What You Think (Lance McCracken)

Slumber in the Land of Pain: Trouble Sleeping across Chronic Medical Conditions
1) Sleeping with chronic pain: Mission impossible? (Nicole Tang)
2) Randomised controlled clinical effectiveness trial of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) versus treatment as usual (TAU) for insomnia in cancer patients. (Leanne Fleming & Colin Espie)
3) The short-term relationship between discomfort, sleep and fatigue in Sjögren’s syndrome and rheumatoid arthritis (Claire Goodchild)
4) Insomnia in dementia and dementia caregiving: opportunities for psychological interventions (Kevin Morgan)