Scientific Programme

The main Scientific programme will be held during four days (October 7-10) and will consist of Pre-Congress Workshops, Keynote Lectures, Meet-the-Expert Sessions, Symposia, Round Tables, Free Papers Sessions, Debates, State-of-the-art Lectures and Poster Sessions. The following Programme is a preliminary version subject to change. Further versions will be regularly updated on the website www.eabct2010-milan.it.

» Pre-Congress Workshops – Thursday, 7 October Full day (9.00-18.00)
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Cognitive Behavioral and Interpersonal/Emotional Processing Therapies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Tom Borkovec

Treatment of resistant anxiety
Robert Leahy

Compassion focused therapy
Paul Gilbert

The clinical reality of cognitive-behavioural therapy for OCD: helping people to choose to change
Paul Salkovskis

Understanding complex problems: the case formulation approach in CBT
Michael bruch

» Pre-Congress Workshops – Thursday, 7 October Half day (9.00-13.00)
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Developing and teaching evolving case conceptualizations in clinicians supervision
Kim Coon

Teaching of cognitive-behavioral management with chronic medical conditions: examples from psychodiabetology
Andrzej Kokoszka

The cognition of hunger and CBT of obesity
Lucio Sibilia

Warriors and co-warriors: a cognitive behavioral approach for military members, law enforcement officers and their families
Sharon Morgillo Freeman

Inter-disciplinary intensive day-treatment for long-term eating disorders: an integration of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CT-CBT) with cognitive-behavioral psycho-nutritional rehabilitation
Romana Schumann, Donatella Ballardini

» Pre-Congress Workshops – Thursday, 7 October Half day (14.00-18.00)
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Motivation and change: cognitive therapy for addiction
Frank Ryan

Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder
David Veale

Recovery after psychosis: an attachment based approach to emotional recovery and affect regulation
Andrew Gumley

Case conceptualisation
Robert Dudley

Imagery-based CBT treatment for trauma & PTSD: imagery rescripting and reprocessing therapy (IRRT)
Mervin Smucker

Cognitive-behavioural approach to weight loss
Judith Beck

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for major depression in outpatient and inpatient treatment Fabrizio Didonna

» Keynotes and State-of-the-Art Lectures

CBT for personality disorders
Judith Beck

Emotional dysfunction, affect dysregulation and the future direction of CBT in psychosis
Max Birchwood

Reflections on four decades of a career in Behavior Therapy
Tom Borkovec

Cognitive-Behavioural Case Formulation: A Clinical-Experimental Procedure for Complex Problems
Michael bruch

Anxiety and sexual dysfunctions: a long-standing dilemma
Davide Dèttore

The sequential model: a new modality of assessment and treatment of mood disorders
Giovanni Fava

Prenatal and perinatal stages of life: integrative and transdisciplinary approaches to primary prevention
Peter G. Fedor-Freybergh

Working with adolescents: evidence based positive health promotion
Margarida Gaspar de Matos

Developments in compassion focused therapy
Paul Gilbert

Emotional schemas and cognitive therapy
Robert Leahy

Common Language in Psychotherapy
Isaac Marks

Early Intervention for Emerging Psychotic and Mood Disorders in Young People
Patrick McGorry

MBSR: from the past to the future. The importance of accurate professional awareness and understanding of MBSR and its therapeutic applications
Antonella Montano

Neuroplasticity and its influence on psychopathology: role of psychopharmacology
Giorgio Racagni

Understanding, preventing and treating severe and persistent health anxiety: what next?
Paul Salkovskis

New trends in clinical assessment
Ezio Sanavio

Body Dysmorphic Disorder: 120 years after Morselli
David Veale

» Round Tables
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Meet-the-Expert
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Symposia
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ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY
• ACT IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
  Paolo Moderato

• CLINICAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN ITALIA: ACT E FAP
   Paolo Moderato

• ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY: A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
  Giovanbattista Presti

ASSESSMENT
• COGNITIVE–BEHAVIOURAL ASSESSMENT: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
   Aristide Saggino

BEHAVIOURAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
• COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL METHODS IN HEALTH PROMOTION
   Lucio Sibilia

• HOW TO TREAT CHRONIC FATIGUE EFFECTIVELY?
  Gijs Bleijenberg

CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PROBLEMS
• ADVANCES IN PEDIATRIC OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER
  Jennifer Park

• SCREENING, PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION OF ANXIETY IN CHILDREN:
  CONNECTING RESEARCH AND COMMUNITY PRACTICE
  Christine M. Yu

• IT'S TIME: ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG
   ADULTS
   Francesca Pergolizzi

• NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD AFTER CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
  Regina Steil

• SELF-INJURED BEHAVIOURS IN ADOLESCENCE
  Margarida Gaspar de Matos

• TOWARDS NOVEL APPROACHES TO TREAT DEPRESSION IN CHILDREN AND     
  ADOLESCENTS: PARENTS AND ATTACHMENT
  Guy Bosmans

• TU CHIAMALE SE VUOI EMOZIONI... APPLICAZIONE DI STRATEGIE COGNITIVO
  COMPORTAMENTALI NELLA GESTIONE DI SINTOMI ANSIOSI E NELLA PROMOZIONE DEL 
  BENESSERE IN ETÀ EVOLUTIVA
  Silvia Perini

COGNITIONS AND EMOTIONS
• COGNITIVE VARIABLES IN PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
  Giovanni Maria Ruggiero

• METACOGNITIVE PROCESSES IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
  Sandra Sassaroli

• PAIN AND PLEASURE: WHEN THE OPPOSITES MEET
  Stefania Borgo

• LOST IN EMOTIONS: A TRANS-DIAGNOSTIC PERSPECTIVE ON EMOTION REGULATION
  Tania M. Lincoln, Stefan Westermann

COUPLE THERAPY
• LATEST DEVELOPMENTS IN THE ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT OF SPECIFIC
  INTIMACY ISSUES IN COUPLES THERAPY
  Sharon Morgillo Freeman

EARLY PSYCHOSIS
• INIZIATIVA TULIP (Tutti uniti per intervenire precocemente) (Assessorato alla Salute-
  Comune di Milano)
  Anna Gardiner

• INTERVENTI A FAVORE DEI GIOVANI: SERVIZI SEPARATI O FUNZIONI DEL DSM.
  UN  FALSO PROBLEMA
  Angelo Cocchi

• LINKING BIOLOGICAL, SOCIAL AND CLINICAL PREDICTORS TO OPTIMIZE THE  
  SPECIFICITY OF INTERVENTIONS IN EARLY PSYCHOSIS
  Mirella Ruggeri

• I TRATTAMENTI FARMACOLOGICI NELL’EARLY PSYCHOSIS
  Luigi Ferrannini

• RECOVERY AFTER PSYCHOSIS: THE RELATIONAL ROOTS OF EMOTIONAL RECOVERY 
  AND AFFECT REGULATION
  Andrew Gumley

• CBT IN EUROPEAN PROGRAMS OF EARLY INTERVENTION
  Anna Meneghelli

EMERGENCY PSYCHOLOGY
• PLANNING FOR THE MENTAL HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF DISASTERS AND
  TERRORISM
  Chris R. brewin

FAMILY INTERVENTIONS
• FAMILY MEMBERS AND CAREGIVERS OF PATIENTS: HOW ARE THEY INVOLVED BOTH IN
  ILLNESS AND IN TREATMENT?
  Barbara Barcaccia

GROUP THERAPY
• GROUP THERAPY IN PSYCHOSIS: HOW TO CHANGE THINKING THROUGH GAMES;
  EMPOWERMENT AND RELATIONAL AWARENESS
  Germana Agnetti

LATINI DIES
• PSYCHOTHERAPY RESEARCH IN LATIN COUNTRIES: SOME DISTINCTIVE FEATURES
  Giovanni Andrea Fava

MINDFULNESS
• MINDFULNESS - ASSESSMENT AND CLINICAL IMPORTANCE
  Zeno Kupper

• MINDFULNESS, COMPASSION AND CBT INTEGRATED PROTOCOLS FOR
  PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS: NEW FINDINGS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
  Fabrizio Di Donna

• MBCT AND RELAPSE PREVENTION IN RECURRENT DEPRESSION: INTEGRATING CLINICAL AND
   NEUROSCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON MINDFULNESS
   Ann Speckens
 
NEUROPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
• PSICOTERAPIA E NEUROSCIENZE. CLINICA E RICERCA: L’INTEGRAZIONE POSSIBILE
  Giuseppe Sacco

• PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
  Gioacchino Aiello

OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDERS
• STATE-OF-THE-ART ASSESSMENT OF OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER: - brIDGING
  RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE, CULTURES, AGES, AND METHODS
  Alessandro S. De Nadai

PHOBIAS AND PANIC DISORDERS
• SOCIAL ANXIETY: FROM SOCIAL PHOBIA TO AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER
  Laura Bislenghi

PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY
• VERSO UN APPROCCIO MULTIDISCIPLINARE INTEGRATO PER UNA PSICONCOLOGIA
  ORIENTATA ALLA (IN)FORMAZIONE E GLOBALITA’ DELLA CURA
  Tiziana Bolis

PSYCHOSOCIAL REHABILITATION
• SUBJECTIVITY AS A KEY TOOL IN REHABILITATION PRACTICES
  Angelo Barbato (WAPR Symposium)

SEXUAL PROBLEMS
• REMOVING MYTH AND MYSTERY: DIAGNOSIS, CONTRIBUTING FACTORS AND  
  TREATMENT OF ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION
  Sharon Morgillo Freeman

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ISSUES
• PEACE NEGOTIATIONS AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY
  Mauro Galluccio
 
SUPERVISON AND THERAPIST TRAINING
• LA FORMAZIONE IN PSICOTERAPIA COGNITIVA COMPORTAMENTALE
  Silvana Cilia

• COMMON LANGUAGE FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY (clp) PROCEDURES: CLASSIFYING AND
  TEACHING WHAT THERAPISTS DO
  Isaac Marks

TRAUMA AND LOSS
• CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF IMAGERY RESCRIPTING
  David Veale

» Provisional Scientific Programme Overview