Advances in the Psychopathology of Schizophrenia and Related Psychoses

This CPD course aims to equip clinicians and allied professions working in the mental health disciplines (including but not limited to psychiatrists, clinical psychologists and mental health nurses) with some of the latest advances in the research of schizophrenia and related psychoses. The focus is on psychopathology and clinical presentations, and the topics covered will reflect some of the most urgent and pertinent questions in the assessment, management and conceptualisation of psychotic disorders. Delivered by renowned experts in the field, we hope to challenge some deeply ingrained misconceptions about schizophrenia and related psychoses in the clinical encounter, how to understand the patients’ experience beyond mere symptoms, and offer a refreshing perspective that can influence and transform clinical practice.

The cost for this one-day course is:

Standard Rate - £180

Trainee Rate - £120

Prices are exempt of VAT.

The rate includes course materials. 

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Assistant Professor, University of York, UK.

With a background in both psychopharmacology and psychiatric research methods, Clara Humpston was awarded her PhD on the cognitive neuropsychiatry of schizotypy and first-episode psychosis in Professor David Linden’s lab from Cardiff University in February 2018, focusing on predictive processing and source monitoring frameworks. She began her first postdoctoral position in 2017 at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London working on chronotherapy for the rapid treatment of depression, before taking up a post of Research Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health, University of Birmingham in 2019. She joined the Department of Psychology as a Lecturer in Mental Health at the University of York in April 2022. 

Dr Humpston’s research interests and experience span from psychopharmacology to cognitive neuropsychiatry to phenomenological psychopathology, all of which focus on schizophrenia-spectrum psychoses, and she is a leading member of the International Consortium for Hallucination Research. Dr Humpston is a strong proponent of inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches and values the importance of multiple lines of scientific enquiry in mental health research.

Director UCL Institute of Mental Health, UK

Tony David graduated in medicine from Glasgow University in 1980 and trained in neurology before entering psychiatry at the Maudsley Hospital, London. He also has a Master’s degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology. He was an honorary consultant at the Maudsley from 1990-2018 and was awarded a personal chair from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London in 1996. He was Vice Dean for Academic Psychiatry at the IoPPN in 2013-8. He was appointed the inaugural Director of the UCL Institute of Mental Health in October 2018 and is also an Honorary Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Sq, London. Professor David has a wide and diverse range of research interests including schizophrenia, neuropsychiatry, medically unexplained syndromes and neuroimaging – both structural and functional. He is especially interested in the concept of insight in schizophrenia and how this relates to treatment compliance and decision making capacity.

Professor David is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the Academy of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and a founder member of both the British Neuropsychological Society and British Neuropsychiatry Association and was Chairman to the latter from 2004-7. He delivered the inaugural “King’s Lectures” in 2018 on the topic “Psychiatry, Science and Society”. Professor David is editor of the journal “Cognitive Neuropsychiatry” and has co-edited several books including, The Self in Neuroscience and Psychiatry (2003) with Tilo Kircher, and Insight and Psychosis (2nd Ed) (2004) with Xavier Amador and Lishman’s Organic Psychiatry (2009). He is author of over 600 publications in peer reviewed medical and scientific journals.

Assistant Professor, Ghent University, Belgium.

Dr Feyaerts is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University, Belgium. His current research interests include delusions and the nature of self-awareness in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, dynamical systems approaches of psychopathology, and the relation between phenomenological and predictive-coding accounts of psychosis.

Consultant Psychiatrist and Priestley Scholar, University of Birmingham

Dr Ritunnano is a joint funded Priestley Birmingham - Melbourne PhD researcher at the Institute for Mental Health and Orygen Youth Health.  Her research adopts cross- and inter-disciplinary approaches (including methods from phenomenology, linguistics and neuropsychology) to the investigation of delusional experiences and meanings in psychosis. Dr Ritunnano investigates the experience and meaning of delusions from multiple disciplinary perspectives, using in-depth phenomenologically informed interviews and qualitative methodologies. 

Dr Ritunnano is a Consultant Psychiatrist in a specialist Early Intervention in Psychosis Service in the West Midlands and a Principal Investigator, involved in ongoing multicentre clinical trials across the UK. Before joining the University of Birmingham, she completed her speciality training in General Adult Psychiatry and obtained her specialist diploma in Psychiatry with academic distinction (Diploma di Specialista in Psychiatria summa cum laude) at the University of Verona. Prior to this, she received her MBChB with distinction (Laurea summa cum laude in Medicina e Chirurgia) at the University of Padua. Dr Ritunnano trained in Phenomenological Psychopathology at the Scuola di Psicoterapia Fenomenologico-Dinamica in Florence.

Terms and Conditions

Payment

1. Online payment via credit or debit card is preferred. Payment by invoice incurs an additional charge of £30. Please note that the University of York cannot accept American Express cards
2. Registration fees are payable in advance of the programme start date.
3. We regret that we cannot reserve or hold programme places in advance of booking or payment.
4. Participants may cancel their place in the programme by emailing the cpd@york.ac.uk

1.1. Registration fees are payable in advance of the course and are fully inclusive of tuition, course materials, lunch / refreshments at the course venue,but do not include accommodation.

1.2. Standard fees - apply to organisations worldwide and are UK VAT exempt (i.e. VAT is not payable).

Cancellations

The following cancellation terms apply:

Standard conditions:
-  Cancellations made 30 days or more before the programme start date: programme registration fees refunded less a 10% administrative charge.
-  Cancellations made less than 30 days before the programme start date: no refund will be given.

For bookings of between 1 and 5 people from the same organisation:
-  Cancellations made 30 days or more before the programme start date: programme registration fees refunded less a 10% administrative charge.
-  Cancellations made less than 30 days before the programme start date: no refund will be given. 

For larger bookings of 6 or more people from the same organisation:
-  Cancellations made 60 days or more before the programme start date: programme registration fees refunded less a 10% administrative charge.
-  Cancellations made less than 60 days before the programme start date: no refund will be given.
-  Should one person from a group booking from the same organisation cancel, substitutes can be made, or the standard conditions apply.

The University of York will not accept responsibility for any additional costs incurred by the participant (for example travel or accommodation arrangements).

Attendance

1. Substitutions may be made prior to the programme start date, provided you inform the CPD team cpd@york.ac.uk in writing and complete any registration documentation for the new participant. 
2. No substitutions are permissible once the programme has started.
3. Transfers between programmes are not possible.
4. In the unlikely event that, due to unforeseen circumstances, the programme has to be cancelled by the University of York, our liability is limited to a refund of paid programme registration fees only. 

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