Doctoral Course in Clinical Psychology
CONFERENCE
Clinical Psychology: Making a
Difference
Friday 27th June 2014
10:00am – 5:00pm
Darwin Building
Lecture Theatre B40
UCL, London, WC1E 6BT
ABSTRACT
This conference will focus on how clinical psychology
can make a real difference in research, service and
policy development and service delivery. At a time
when the NHS is under a lot of pressure, the question
how clinical psychologists can communicate with impact
and ensure that our contributions to policy and service
delivery are effective is a question of utmost
importance and the key focus of this conference.
Audience participation will be a cornerstone of the day.
PROGRAMME
AM – FROM CONCEPT TO COUCH – IDEAS
THAT HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE
10.00 – 10.10
Introduction & Welcome
10.10 – 10.45
Professor Elizabeth Kuipers – ‘CBT for
people with psychosis’
10.45 – 11.20
Dr Aimee Spector – Cognitive Stimulation
Therapy for people with dementia’
11.20 BREAK
11.50 – 12.25
Professor Tony Charman – ‘Early
Intervention for Children with Autism
Spectrum Disorders’
12.25 – 12.45
Panel Discussion
12.45 LUNCH BREAK
PROGRAMME
PM – ENSURING CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
HAS IMPACT
14.00 – 14.10
Introduction
14.10 – 14.40
Professor Alex Clark, Consultant Clinical
Psychologist, Royal Free Hospital &
Honorary Professor of Health Psychology,
UCL
14.40 – 15.10
Dr Ben Smith, Clinical Director for
Psychological Services and the Allied
Health Professions
15.10 – 15.40
Dr Richard Pemberton, Chair of DCP
15.40 BREAK
16.10 – 17.00
Question Time: An Opportunity for the
Audience to determine the direction of the
debate
17.00 END
INFORMATION ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Professor Elizabeth Kuipers received her first degree in
Psychology from Bristol University, completed clinical
training at Birmingham University and PhD from the
University of London. As a clinical psychologist, she has
specialised in the problems of those with psychosis and their
families. With colleagues, she developed and evaluated,
firstly, family interventions, and then individual cognitive
behaviour therapy for psychosis, and published randomized
controlled trials, whilst also investigating underlying
maintaining factors. These interventions are now
recommended for those with psychosis by NICE (National
Institute of Care and Health Excellence). She was Chair of 2
NICE Guideline updates, for Schizophrenia, 2009, and
Psychosis and Schizophrenia, 2014. At the Institute of
Psychiatry (IOP), King’s College London (KCL), she became
a Professor of Clinical Psychology in 1998, and was Head of
the Psychology Department from 2006-2012. She also worked
as an honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist in an adult
psychosis team at the South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust, until 2012, where she was founding director
of PICUP (Psychological interventions for Outpatients with
Psychosis), now part of a demonstration site for the IAPTSMI (Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies for Severe
Mental Illness) initiative from NHS England. At the IOP
Elizabeth has been the lead for Athena Swan (women in
science initiative) since 2012, and from 2013 has led the KCL
Athena Swan Champions network. In 2013, Elizabeth
received a Lifetime Achievement award from WISE (Women
in Science and Engineering), and a Lifetime Achievement
award from the British Psychological Society Professional
Practice Board.
Dr Aimee Spector is a Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology
at UCL. For her PhD, studied at UCL, she developed and
evaluated CST, which she will be talking about today. She
then completed the DClinPsy here at UCL and worked as a
clinical psychologist in Bedfordshire before returning to this
department in 2007. Her research broadly focuses on the
development and evaluation of psychosocial interventions for
dementia.
Professor Tony Charman holds the Chair in Clinical Child
Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College
London. His main research interest is the investigation of
social cognitive development in children with autism and the
clinical application of this work via screening, diagnostic,
epidemiological, intervention, and 'at risk' studies. Tony is a
Chartered Clinical Psychologist and works in a specialist
service for children with autism complex neurodevelopmental
conditions at the South London and Maudsley NHS
Foundation Trust. He has published more than 200 peerreviewed papers and is the author of over 30 book chapters.
Tony has served on a number of expert panels for the Medical
Research Council in the UK and NIH in the USA. He has been
a member of the Guidelines Development Group for two
NICE guidelines on (i) identification, referral and diagnosis
and (ii) management of children and young people with
autism.
Dr Alex Clark is a consultant clinical and health psychologist
working for many years with people with disfiguring
conditions. For the last five years she has led the department
of clinical health psychology at the Royal Free Hospital as
clinical lead. She is a visiting professor at the Centre for
Appearance Research at the University of the West of England
and an honorary professor of psychology at UCL. Her
research on psychological aspects of disfigurement has
focussed on the development and evaluation of therapeutic
interventions to help people manage an unusual appearance
and more recently, on pathway redesign and the development
of outcome measures to support development of
multidisciplinary working in specialist services.
Dr Ben Smith trained in clinical psychology at UCL and is
now Clinical Director for Psychological Services and the
Allied Health Professions at NELFT. Clinically, Ben uses
cognitive-behavioural therapies (CBT) for both psychosis and
PTSD and has done so for the past 15 years. Ben spent 4 years
working as a therapist at UCL on a large randomised
controlled trial of CBT and Family Intervention for psychosis.
He works with a research team in the UK who specialise in
cognitive models and therapies for psychosis and have
published peer reviewed articles and book chapters on both
psychosis and PTSD. Recently, he has been the lead therapist
for the C-PAS (CBT for PTSD and Schizophrenia)
randomised controlled trial in NELFT.
Dr Richard Pemberton is the current Chair of the British
Psychological Society Divisional of Clinical Psychology. He
lives and works in Sussex and until recently was the head of
psychology and psychological therapy in Sussex Partnership
NHS Trust. He has worked extensively in acute
services, primary care and community mental health. As the
Clinical Director for Learning Disability Services he led the
closure of long stay provision and the development of
challenging needs services. Clinically his specialist areas are
complex care formulation and service redesign.
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