Three full-day workshops will be held at the Congress Centre on Wednesday 10 December:

Workshop 1
John Clements - The behavioural and emotional difficulties of children and young people with ASD: Working with families for positive change

Workshop 2
Mark Sampson - Facilitating responsible recovery in borderline personality disorder

Workshop 3
Prof. Roz Shafran - Perfectionism - a transdiagnostic approach

The cost of each workshop is £150 for DCP members and £190 for others.

To book a place visit the Registration page.

Abstracts

Dr Mark Sampson

Facilitating responsible recovery in people with borderline personality disorder
This workshop will provide an overview of borderline personality disorder (BPD). It will review current theories and therapies for people with BPD and then dissect these highlighting similarities and differences between them. The workshop will hope to dispel common myths about working with people with BPD and will use case illustration to demonstrate ways of effectively engaging, managing crisis and providing therapy to somebody with BPD. Finally, the workshop will look at care pathways and highlight potential pitfalls that could contribute to iatrogenic problems associated with caring for people with BPD.

John Clements

The behavioural and emotional difficulties of children and young people with ASD: Working with families for positive change
This workshop will look at the kinds of support that help families to work constructively on the behavioral and emotional difficulties that their children with ASD can present. It will look at micro level inputs that seek relatively short term change but also consider the need sometimes for more comprehensive changes in the pattern of support to the individual. There will also be consideration of the needs of those whose difficulties are more refractory and chronic. The workshop will include inputs from both family members and one young person with ASD. It is expected that participants will learn about practical interventions, service organization and some of the broader issues that arise in supporting families. The perspectives informing the workshop are common sense, developmental and behavioral rather than systemic or psychodynamic.

Professor Roz Shafran

Clinical Perfectionism - a transdiagnostic approach
The aim is of this workshop is to provide clinicians with skills to address the sort of perfectionism that (a) warrants intervention and (b) impedes the progress of therapy. These skills can be applied across different DSM-IV diagnoses.
First, a cognitive behavioural conceptualisation of clinical perfectionism will be presented. Controversies within this conceptualisation will be discussed. Second, a treatment protocol to address such perfectionism will be described and preliminary data on its efficacy across disorders will be provided. The workshop will use DVDs, case examples, exercises and be interactive. Participants are also encouraged to bring their own cases for discussion.