pPOD members attend annual BABCP conference

This year was the BABCP’s 41st Annual Conference, held at the South Kensington Campus of Imperial College, London. The conference ran over three days with a variety of presentation formats, including symposia, panel discussions, clinical roundtables and keynote addresses. A number of streams covered a range of topics in the science and practice of cognitive and behavioural psychotherapies. These included topics on child and adult mental health, as well as talks on new developments in IAPT, training and professional issues, and policy and economics. 

Child and adolescent topics were well represented with keynote addresses by Professor Jennie Hudson and Professor Silvia Schneider on anxiety disorders in children, a clinical roundtable addressing working with parents in CBT for children and young people, and a number of well-attended symposia.

Research from the pPOD team was also presented with a talk on the associations between father-infant interactions and child behaviour within a symposium entitled, ‘Personality, Learning and Predictors in Child and Adolescent Mental Health’.

 The full programme can be seen on the BABCP conference website (http://www.babcpconference.com) where details of the 2014 conference, to be held at the University of Birmingham, will be posted in due course.