Join us for the ISPS-US 2024 Pre-Conference Workshop with Professor Craig Steel, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust | University of Oxford

Description:

This workshop will be based on a cognitive behavioral approach to understanding psychosis. The first session will focus on a developmental formulation and how early stressful life events contribute to the development and maintenance of psychotic symptoms. The second session will build on this approach to consider the overlap between the symptoms of PTSD and psychosis, and the extent to which varied psychotic presentations can be understood as complex reactions to trauma. The afternoon sessions will highlight the different possible treatment approaches for working with trauma in psychosis. These will include adapted interventions such as ‘reliving’ and ‘imagery rescripting’ as well as a ‘voice dialogue’ approach to working with voices. The aim of the workshop is to ‘demystify’ these approaches to treatment and to signpost to further available training.

Event Details

• CEs: Six continuing education credit hours are available for APA, ASWB and ACCME.
• Location: Floor and room number in the Cathedral of Learning, as well as parking details for the University of Pittsburgh will be emailed to you nearer the date. This event is in-person only, lunch will be provided.
• Additional Date: An additional training date on Thursday, October 31st will be added, if demand exceeds capacity for this course.
• Conference Attendee Discount: Attendees of the ISPS-US Conference will receive a 20% discount to this course in the form of a coupon code. Please use the discount code on checkout or email contact@isps-us.org if you have questions.
• Scholarships: Low-income individuals, including students, may use the discount code SCHOLAR24 to access registration for $50. If this code does not work, these limited spaces have sold out. Additionally, a highly limited number of $25 tickets are available to those in need. To apply visit: https://forms.gle/rxoM1py4iHPFphiG7
• Full conference: To see details and register for the ISPS-US 2024 Conference visit www.isps-us.org/conference conference attendees receive $50 off the pre-workshop registration

Presenter Bio

Craig completed a PhD at King’s College London (1998) and qualified as a clinical psychologist (2000) at Royal Holloway, University of London. His clinical and research work has focused on the development and evaluation of psychological treatments for psychosis. He has a particular interest in developing models than enable us to ‘make sense’ of psychotic symptoms within the context of the reaction to traumatic life events. Current research includes developing a ‘voice dialogue’ approach to working with distressing voice hearing experiences, working with a London refugee service to help evaluate trauma interventions and working with colleagues across Europe and the UK to evaluate an imagery-based intervention aimed at helping people diagnosed with bipolar disorder better regulate their mood.

He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and Associate Editor to the Journal Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. He is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist, a member of the Division of Clinical Psychology and a member of the Health and Care Professionals Council. He is also an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Therapist.