EMDR for Psychosis: Clinical and Research Innovations

The day will cover:

New findings from the EASE trial (an NIHR funded trial of EMDR for psychosis)

Workshops focusing on clinical applications of EMDR for psychosis

Keynote talks from international experts: Dr Amy Hardy, Professor Richard Bentall, Dr Filippo Varese.

£80.00 in Person

LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS INCLUDED

£40.00 On-line Access

9:30 Welcome and Introduction

We will be welcomed by Maria Nelligan, Chief Nurse, Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Trust (LSCFT) where the research took place.

Gita Bhutani & Filippo Varese will outline the plan for the day.

9:55 Why is trauma therapy relevant to the care we should offer to people with psychosis?

To start off the day, Amy Hardy’s talk will guide us through the most important development in the understanding of the link between trauma and psychosis, and the application of trauma therapy to people with psychosis. There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end

10:45 Break

11:00 Is EMDR for psychosis (EMDRp) a promising new treatment?

Filippo Varese, the chief investigator of the EASE trial, will reveal the findings of the first randomised controlled trial of ‘EMDR for psychosis’ in the UK

11:15 What does EMDRp involve?

David Keane and Debbie Malkin, two EMDR consultants who supervised all clinical work of the EASE trial, will introduce in more detail the ‘EMDR for psychosis’ intervention we evaluated in Early Intervention clients

How do service users find this kind of clinical work?

Yvonne Awenat, the senior qualitative researcher of the EASE team, will illustrate the findings of in-depth interviews we conducted with service users who received EMDRp

Q&A session

12:30 Lunch & Networking

13:30 How can we support the goals and needs of people with psychosis using EMDR?

David Keane and Debbie Malkin will guide conference attenders through the different phases of the EMDRp protocol and give practitioners a more concrete idea of how to apply EMDRp

15:30 Break

15:45 Where do we go from here?

Renowned psychologist and researcher Richard Bentall will close the day and share future plans for research and clinical work in this area

16:15 Final Comments

Gita Bhutani & Filippo Varese

16:30 Conference Close