Keynotes
The Keynote talks will be given on Thursday 4th, Friday 5th & Saturday 6th September 2025
Arnoud Arntz, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Imagery Rescripting: an update of clinical applications and research findings
Dixon Chibanda, Friendship Bench Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
The Friendship Bench: Lessons from a thousand grandmothers
Michelle Craske, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Targeting threat and reward processes in the treatment of anxiety and depression
Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford, UK
Making the most of digital (and parents) to increase access to CBT for child anxiety problems
Colin Espie, University of Oxford, UK
Psychological therapy and pharmacotherapy on the same playing field
Azucena Garcia-Palacios, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
Digital solutions for a global problem: improving access to mental health services through technology
Gillian Haddock, University of Manchester, UK
Everyone needs to talk about suicide and psychosis: how can we improve our work when engaging with these complex issues?
Nusrat Husain, University of Manchester, UK
Breaking Barriers: Cultural adaptation of psychological therapies for Ethnic Minority communities
Andrew Jahoda, University of Glasgow, UK
The art of the possible: adapting psychological therapies for people with more severe and profound intellectual disabilities
Lars Klintwall, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Disentangling complexity: using personalized symptom networks in clinical practice
Hans Knoop, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Netherlands
TBC
Ken Laidlaw, University of Exeter, UK
TBC
David Mataix-Cols, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Beyond symptom reduction: Time to expand CBT research to broader life outcomes?
Rory O’Connor, University of Glasgow, UK
Understanding suicide risk
Agnieszka Popiel, SWPS University, Poland
Challenges for Evidence-Based Practice in the Treatment and Prevention of PTSD during Ongoing Humanitarian Crises
Filip Raes, University of Leuven, Belgium
A Transdiagnostic Case Conceptualization Model with Behavior Therapy as its Beating Heart
Jessica Schleider, Northwestern University, USA
Single-Session Interventions as a Youth Mental Health Moonshot
Roz Shafran, University College London Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, UK
Breaking Boundaries, Creating Connections: The Role of Transdiagnostic Treatments
Luisa Weiner, University of Strasbourg, France
TBC
Ulrike Willutzki, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany
Psychotherapy training – Impressions from an international longitudinal study