Second day of the full conference. Again good conversation at breakfast ... great. Then off along small tracks through the university grounds to end up at a symposium on research using Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to help people suffering from severe Health Anxiety Disorder. Four papers were presented. Although the trial intends to recruit 60 participants in total, these...
17th July 2009
16th July 2009
So we're past yesterday's workshops and into the first day of the conference proper. Two and a half days now involving about 51 symposia, 5 panel debates, 8 open paper sessions, 2 poster sessions, and 17 keynote addresses. I really like this Exeter campus with it's trees and little paths. Easy to get lost, but lovely. I also really like the many casual conversations - in coffee queues, at...
15th July 2009
Exeter. I really like the way that the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conferences rotate around a whole series of UK university towns. This is the 37th BABCP Annual Conference, and I guess I've been to a dozen or more of them over the years. They tend to follow a similar pattern -...