Psychosocial Psychiatry

You will be able to submit questions to the speaker during the event using the Q&A function on Zoom.

2.00 pm
Trieste: Utopia and Reality
Professor Sashi Sashidharan, Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow

Talk synopis:

• Professor Sashidharan Describing the 'Trieste model' of mental health care, a brief history followed by a detailed description of the service, underlying principles and practice. He will also marshal the available evidence in relation to the Trieste service.
• He will address some of the criticisms of the Trieste service and the shortcomings of this model.
• Finally, Professor Sashidharan will consider the transferability of the model and associated difficulties and describe briefly how the Trieste model is currently being introduced in Birmingham, one of the 6 national pilots of 24/7 Community Mental Health Centres by NHSE.

Key learning points: 

• What constitutes a good model of comprehensive community mental health service
• How to change culture and practice of mental health care as essential components of service improvement, especially in the UK setting. 

2.45 pm
Understanding and treating OCD: an empirically grounded approach
Professor Paul Salkovskis, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford

Talk synopis:

Historically, OCD has been viewed in a particularly negative way and outcome expectations have been very pessimistic. Those suffering have often been regarded as borderline psychotic, and considered as requiring drastic interventions such as very high doses of medication or even Psychosurgery. Paul will describe the phenomenology of OCD and how this relates to psychological theories of the development and maintenance of OCD. The link between current psychological understanding and treatment will be described and consideration given to scalability of such treatment.  Complex factors in the treatment of OCD will be described, including some surprising results in terms of treatment outcomes.

Challacombe, F., Oldfield, V. & Salkovskis, P.M. (2011) Break Free from OCD  Vermillion Press
(a book intended for patients as a self help guide….some therapists also find it useful)

Bream, V, Challacombe, F, Palmer, A & Salkovskis, P.M. (2017) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for OCD   Oxford University Press: Oxford
(A recent Therapist Manual)

3.30 pm 
Comfort break

3.45 pm
Social Psychiatry: The heart of the profession
Professor Rob Poole, Professor of Social Psychiatry at Bangor University

Talk synopsis:

Social Psychiatry was the dominant paradigm until the Decade of the Brain was announced in 1989. The outcome of that announcement has been very disappointing. A mass of evidence of the importance of social factors in causation and treatment of major mental illness has now accumulated, as was apparent even during the Industrial Revolution. Although biological evidence is important, and cannot be dismissed, the significance of the social has been noted by Sir Robin Murray FRS. We should follow the evidence.

4.30 pm
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