2023 Programme Schedule and Recordings


To access the 2024 programme schedule, please click here

Access recordings below - please note that these become accessible around 1-2 weeks after the webinar has taken place.

Friday 8th December

12:30pm

 

Examining Early Risk Factors for Psychosis Spectrum Symptoms Using ABCD Data

Prof Nicole Karcher

Instructor in Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis

 

Friday 1st December

12:30pm

 

Avatar Therapy: Making the invisible, tangible: using avatars to help people with distressing voices

Prof Rus-Calafell

Clinical Psychology and Digital Psychotherapy, Mental Health Research and Treatment Center, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

 

Friday 24th November

12:30pm

The role of adolescent self-harm in early detection and intervention

Professor Michael Kaess

Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the University of Bern

Director of the University Hospital of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Bern, Switzerland

Friday 17th November

12:30pm

 

Digital Mental Health: Challenges and next steps

Dr Katharine Smith

Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist

Clinical Lead, NIHR Oxford Health Clinical Research Facility, Research Delivery Team, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

Friday 10th November

12:30pm

 

Evolutionary Theory Can Advance and Revitalise the Biopsychosocial Model

Dr Riadh Abed (FRCPsych)

Retired Psychiatrist and Senior Clinical Lecturer

Chair of the Section of Evolutionary Psychiatry at the WPA Co-editor of ‘Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health’

Friday 3rd November

12:30pm

Understanding the Role of Social Media in Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking: Case Examples of Dissociative Symptoms

Dr Leslie Horton

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry Principal Investigator, Youth Emotions, Thoughts, and Interactions Lab (YETI Lab) Director, Hope Team University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Friday 27th October

12:30pm

 

Mindfulness for Life

Prof Willem Kuyken

Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science, University Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Warneford Hospital

 

Friday 20th October

12:30pm

Irritability in young people: Its clinical importance and management

Dr Katharina Kircanski

Staff Scientist and Chief of Experimental and Quantitative Methods, National Institute of Mental Health Emotion and Development Branch (NIMH EDB), United States

Friday 13th October

12:30pm

Clinical and methodological challenges on the pharmacological maintenance treatment of schizophrenia

Dr Giovanni Ostuzzi

MD, PhD Assistant Professor, WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health and Service Evaluation Department of Neuroscience, Biomedicine and Movement Sciences Section of Psychiatry, University of Verona, Italy

Friday 6th October

12:30pm

Lifecourse and Intergenerational Health Consequences of Historical Trauma from South African Apartheid 

Dr Andrew Wooyoung Kim

Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley SAMRC Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit (DPHRU), University of the Witwatersrand

 

Friday 29th September

12:30pm

Reducing Self-harm in Adolescents: An Individual Participant Data meta-analysis

Prof David Cottrell

Emeritus Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry University of Leeds

 

Friday 22nd September 

12:30pm

Sakshi and Dhyana: the origin of mindfulness-based therapies

Prof Swaran Singh

Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry WMS - Health Sciences Warwick Medical School

 

Friday 15th September

12:30pm

WARN-D: building a personalized early warning system for depression

Dr Eiko Fried

Associate Professor Department of Clinical Psychology Leiden University

 

Friday 8th September

12:30pm

Major mental illness; how does it affect physical health

Prof Fiona Gaughran

Lead Consultant Psychiatrist, National Psychosis Service and Director of Research and Development, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Professor of Physical Health and Clinical Therapeutics in Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London

Theme Lead Applied Informatics, NIHR Applied Research Collaboration, South London

 

Friday 1st September

12:30pm

The problem with mental health interventions in schools

Dr Lucy Foulkes

Prudence Trust Research Fellow, Dept of Experimental Psychology Supernumerary Fellow, St John's College University of Oxford

 

Break for August

Friday 28th July

12:30pm

Scaling-up Health-Arts Programmes: the largest study in the world bringing arts-based mental health interventions into a national health service

Dr Kristi Sawyer

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Perinatal Psychiatry IoPPN, King’s College London

Friday 21st July

12:30pm

Sink or Swim: Demonstrating the Impact of a Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service

Dr Patricia Ibeziako

Associate Chief for Clinical Services and Director of the Quality Program, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Boston Children’s Hospital

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

 

Friday 14th July

12:30pm

 

Beyond Telehealth: Advances in Digital Mental Health Research and Practical Clinical Considerations for Smartphone Apps in Care

Dr John Torous MD MBI

Director of the Digital Psychiatry Division, Staff Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BDIMC)

 

Friday 7th July

12:30pm

The biopsychosocial model: not dead but in need of revival

Dr Simon Williamson

Academic Clinical Fellow in General Psychiatry, University of Warwick

Core Psychiatry Trainee, Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Friday 30th June

12:30pm

 

Exclusion Culture & Moral Injury

Dr Chloe Beale

Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist

Homerton Psychological Medicine, Homerton University Hospital

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Wolfson Institute, QMUL

 

Friday 23rd June

12:30pm

 

Psychodynamic Approaches to Schizophrenia

Dr Mark L. Ruffalo

Psychotherapist

Instructor of Psychiatry, University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Adjunct Instructor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine

 

Friday 16th June

12:30pm

 

ADHD over the life course among girls and women

Dr Jessica Agnew-Blais

Lecturer in Psychology

School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University London

 

Friday 9th June

12:30pm

 

Climate change, biodiversity loss and mental health: a global perspective

Prof Paolo Cianconi (Md Phd Ma)

Clinical Psychiatrist, Mental Health Department ASL Roma1 Regina Coeli Prison Phd neuroscience Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Rome

 

Friday 2nd June

12:30pm

Psychotropic medication in pregnancy and lactation and early development of exposed children

Prof Sarah Kittel-Schneider 

Head of Developmental Psychiatry
Centre of Mental Health
Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
University Hospital Würzburg

 

Friday 26th May

12:30pm

Recovering from body image disturbances in anorexia nervosa

Manja Engel

PhD student | Neuropsychologist  | Utrecht University | Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences | Experimental Psychology 

 

Friday 19th May

12:30pm

Modular Interventions in Children with Chronic Illness: the Mental Health Interventions for Children with Epilepsy (MICE) Trial

Dr Sophie Bennett 

Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
KCL Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
Honorary Associate Professor
Population, Policy & Practice Dept
UCL GOS Institute of Child Health

 

Friday 12th May

Online remote behavioural intervention for tics (ORBIT) trial: The voyage from research to practice

Dr Charlotte Hall

Principal Research Fellow

NIHR MindTech MedTech Cooperative

University of Nottingham

Dr Tara Murphy

Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist and Clinical Psychologist
Co-lead of the Tic Disorder and Paediatric Neuropsychology Services, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

 

CANCELLED

WARN-D: building a personalized early warning system for depression

Dr Eiko Fried

Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Leiden University

 

Friday 28th April

Psychiatry and Mental Illness in Popular Culture: The case of Spanish popular music

Dr Fabián Pavez

Psychiatrist, Mental Health Centre of Lorca (Health Service of Murcia, Spain)

Dr Adelaida Barros Cajdler

Psychiatrist, The Catholic University of Chile

 

Friday 21st April

'Self-binding directives' - should it be possible to request involuntary treatment in advance?

Dr Tania Gergel

Director of Research at Bipolar UK

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University College London

Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London

 

Friday 14th April

Studying autonomic arousal and emotional regulation to further understand neurodevelopmental conditions

Dr Alessio Bellato

Assistant Professor & Course Director, MSc Developmental Disorders Director of Postgraduate Studies, University of Nottingham Malaysia

 

Friday 7th April - Break for Good Friday

Friday 31st March

Risk, Resilience and Bullying

Prof Lucy Bowes

Professor of Developmental Psychopatholpogy, Department of Experimental Psychology

University of Oxford Fellow of Magdalen College, University of Oxford

Principal Investigator of oRANGE Lab

 

Friday 24th March

12:30pm

 

Psychopathology of Rare & Unusual Syndromes

Prof Femi Oyebode

Psychiatrist

Former Professor of Psychiatry and Head of Department, University of Birmingham

 

Friday 10th March

12:00pm

 

Climate Change and Mental Health in Africa

Prof Lukoye Atwoli

Professor and Dean, Medical College East Africa
Associate Director, Brain and Mind Institute
The Ag​a Khan University
Medical College East Africa

 

Friday 3rd March

12:30pm

 

Why are girls less likely to be diagnosed with ADHD 

Dr Joanna Martin

Research Fellow, Health and Care Research Wales/NIHR Advanced Fellow, Wolfson Centre for Young People’s Mental Health, Cardiff University

 

24 February 2023

12:30pm

 

Mental Health of Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers

Dr Matthew Hodes

Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Westminster Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Division of Psychiatry, Imperial College London

 

17 February 2023

12:30pm

Difficult to Treat Depression: A Reconceptualization of Treatment Resistant Depression of Clinical Significance

Prof Hamish McAllister-Williams

Professor of Affective Disorders in the Northern Centre for Mood Disorders, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Newcastle University
Lead for the Mental Health, Dementia and Neurodegenerative Disorders Research Theme at the University

 

10 February 2023

12:30pm

ADHD in primary care and the risks associated with a lack of diagnosis 

Links from the webinar:

http://www.adhdinfo.org.uk/

Dr Blandine French

Research Fellow on Optima Trial, The Institute of Mental Health, University of Nottingham

 

03 February 2023

12:30pm

OCD in Youth: From Conceptualization to Treatment 

Dr Katherine Durham

Clinical Psychologist, New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Director of Clinical Training for the Translational Research on Affective Disorders and Suicide Laboratory

 

27 January 2023

12:30pm

Understanding and treating panic disorder in adolescents

Dr Polly Waite

Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford
Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

 

20 January 2023

12:30pm

‘Broken from the top-down': the work-related experiences of community healthcare workers during the COVID-19 response 

Dr Shane O’Donnell

Research Scientist & Newman Fellow, Coordinator of H2020 OPEN Project, School of Sociology/School of Medicine, University College Dublin

13 January 2023

12:30pm

Single session interventions: A scalable way to expand access to early help for adolescent depression?

Dr Maria Loades

Clinical Psychologist
Senior Lecturer/Clinical Tutor and NIHR Research Fellow
Department of Psychology
University of Bath