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The British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) will hold their annual conference next year in Manchester from 20-23 July 2010. Outline info is available from the conference website. The eating disorders and impulse control stream of the conference has always been very strong - this year we had a keynote and pre-conference workshop by Kelly Vitousek and we have another exciting keynote speaker pencilled in for next year. As convener of the eating disorder and impulse control stream I’m keen to hear from those of you who’d like to present work at the conference. This could be a short paper presenting research, or a workshop or case conference focused around more clinical issues. Do contact me by email if you are thinking of submitting something and I’d be happy to advise. You can also submit online via the conference website until 11th Jan 2010.

The Charlie Waller Institute is presenting a two day workshop by Professor Christopher Fairburn on Transdiagnostic CBT for Eating Disorders. This will take place in Reading on the 26th and 27th November 2008. Cost is £225.
For more details visit the Charlie Waller Institute website or email cwi@reading.ac.uk

I had a great, if very busy, time at the BABCP conference in Edinburgh. It was fantastically well attended (I think around 1000 people) and there was a real buzz. As well as the excellent (ahem) eating disorder and impulse control stream, there were a number of events about new developments in Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies and some excellent keynotes. I was very impressed by Chris Williams’ (who developed the excellent Living Life to the Full website) stand at the Exhibition. Chris and colleagues have been working on some very nicely designed and simple but effective Low Intensity Support Materials in the form of booklets covering some of the core issues in CBT. These include ‘I can’t be bothered doing anything’, ‘I’m not good enough’ and ‘The things you do that mess you up’. For more about the booklets, see the Five Areas website

This regular annual conference, now in its 7th year, will be held on Tuesday 9 December 2008 in Cambridge, UK. More details from the Royal College of Psychiatrists website

I just wanted to let you know that the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) will hold its annual conference this year in Edinburgh from 16th-19th July. The Eating Disorders and Impulse Control stream is particularly strong this year, with a number of interesting keynotes, workshops and symposia. For further info please visit the conference website.

And yes, I do have a bit of a vested interest in promoting this, I'm the co-convener of the eating disorders and impulse control stream.

On 7th-8th November this year, Professor Christopher Fairburn will be presenting a workshop on the new Transdiagnostic form of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for EDs as developed by his team in Oxford. The approach is designed for all forms of eating disorder and has special modules for patients with mood intolerance, clinical perfectionism, severe low self-esteem and major interpersonal problems. The workshop will be held at the University of Reading. For further information contact Sarah Holling (s.j.holling@rdg.ac.uk or 0118 378 6668).

Eating Disorders 2007: 15th International Conference will be held from October 18-20, 2007 in Alpbach, Tyrol, Austria
The preliminary programme for this conference is now available and will include a Pre-Congress Workshop-Teaching Day on Treatment of Eating Disorders and Obesity.

The Royal College of Psychatrists along with Peterborough Mental Health NHS Trust and the Phoenix Centre will be organising the Sixth National Conference on Adolescent Eating Disorders: Working Together in London on 7th December 2007.

The conference aims to share recent developments in research and good practice with professionals, service users and carers.
For more information and to book a place, see the Royal College of Psychiatrist website or contact Catherine Ayres: cayres@cru.rcpsych.ac.uk

Working Together - Adolescent Eating Disorders: the 6th National Conference will be help on 7 December 2007 in London, UK.

The conference is organised by The Royal College of Psychiatrists Education and Training Centre in partnership with the Phoenix Centre, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust, along with support from beat (formerly the Eating Disorders Association).

For more information visit the RCPsych Education and Training Centre site

I've just spent a very enjoyable couple of days attending this conference and presenting our latest research on links between HIV and eating problems.
Highlights which I will try to report on in more depth over the next few days included Mark Williams' opening keynote (an excellent summary of the development of mindfulness approaches in depression with some intriguing ideas about how these could be relevant in eating disorders), Kate Tchanturia's plenary and workshop on approaches to rigidity and inflexibility including the use of Cognitive Remediation Therapy, and Ken Nunn's wonderfully approachable and entertaining guide to neurobiology 'Everything you ever wanted to know about the brain in 90 minutes'.