Programme

 

Time

Strand 1

Brigante suite

In person only

Strand 2

Magnum suite

In person only

Strand 3

Neville suite

In person only

Strand 4

Thoresby suite

In person only
12.00 to 12.45pm Registration and buffet lunch
12.45 to 1.10pm

Welcomes: Clare Symons - BACP Head of Research, Anna Daroy - BACP CEO and John Hills - Leeds Beckett University.
1.15 to 2.30pm Keynote Discussion Panel: Panos Vostanis, Richard Burgon, Anne Burghgraef, Sega Habtom & Luke Bramhall.
Counselling rebuilding lives - Exploring the role of counselling and psychotherapy in supporting displaced people fleeing trauma, persecution and conflict.
2.35 to 3.05pm
Discussion: Mitchell Waters.
Social Determinants of Health in Counselling and Psychotherapy: Implications for Research and Practice.
Research Paper: Wayne Full and Andreas Vossler.
Therapists’ and counsellors’ perceptions and experiences of offering online therapy during the global pandemic: implications for practice and training.
Research Paper: Dawn Edge and Shenitta Anderson.
Culturally adapted Family Intervention (CaFI) for African-Caribbean people diagnosed with schizophrenia and their families: a mixed-methods feasibility study of development, implementation and acceptability.
Lightning Talk: Georgina Green.
A qualitative investigation of the experiences of Kenyan Counsellors using the CBT 5 aspects model with their clients’.
3.05 to 3.30pm Break
3.30 to 4.00pm
Discussion: Terry Hanley.
What are the research priorities for web-based therapy and support?
Research Paper: James Yates and Chris Brown.
In the experience of self-identified cis-male clients with prior suicidal-ideation, what role did their concept of masculinity play in their experiences and their understanding of self, and how might this inform psychotherapeutic practice?
Research Paper: Jane Hunt.
Religion and Spirituality in therapy: exploring how trainee and newly qualified counsellors and psychotherapists, who identify as religious or spiritual, experience undertaking therapeutic training in the UK.

Symposium: Jeannette Roddy, Kevin F. Hogan, Tanya Frances, Lynne Gabriel, Helen Blake and Laura Viliardos.
Working with experiences of domestic abuse: practice considerations.

4.05 to 4.35pm

Discussion: Michael Barkham, Charlie Duncan, Louise Knowles and Kim de Jong.

Barriers and facilitators to promoting routine outcome monitoring in practice: perspectives across different settings.
Discussion: Vivien Sabel.
What is this? An experience of mental health related performance poetry and discussion of shared somatic healing.
Discussion: Diana Conroy.
Secondary Traumatic Stress & Trauma Informed Practice in Higher Education.

4.40 to 5.10pm
Discussion: Julie-Ann Huggins.
Outside In: How can an awareness of the ecological self of the therapist be influential in supporting equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Discussion: Belinda Ford.
What is the lived experience of being a Relate supervisor?
5.10 to 6.30pm Break
6.30 to 7.30pm

Pre-dinner drinks, awards announcements, poster and exhibition viewing - 4th Floor Foyer.

Poster presenters:

  • Faye Winter, Alex Luckhurst and Deborah Roberts​ - “In clients' experiences what is/has been the impact of having a parent who displays/did display Narcissistic Personality Disorder behaviour and can this inform therapeutic practice?”
  • Dorcas Upshall and Laura Murtagh​ - “What is the experience of bisexual women within the LGBTQIA+ community in relation to biphobia and can this inform psychotherapeutic practice?”
  • Raymond Harrison​ - “That moment of wrestling” – capturing therapists’ descriptions of the process of integration. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study looking at therapists who are Christians experience of integration personally and professionally.”
  • Luke Sellers - “Approaches to Assessment: Employing creative methods as a mode of data engagement and sense-making to explore practitioners perspectives.”
  • Jen Holland​ - “Approaches to Assessment: Creative methods to explore practitioners perspectives.”
  • David Sanmartino​ - “An exploration and evaluation of Routine Outcome Measures use in clinical/therapeutic practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy.”
  • Naomi Pauling - “How are social determinants of mental health addressed in therapy: A systematic review.”
  • Molly Nixon - “Exploring Women’s Experiences of Healing from Sexual Trauma through Engagement in Mind-Body Practices. A Systematic Review.”

View our online poster exhibition.
7.30 to 9.00pm

Conference Dinner - Neville Suite

View Day 2 programme

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