- DAY 1 -
June 12th, 2024
10:00AM - 11:30AM Social Activity
Pike Place Market Tour- meet at Rachel the pig (under market sign); walk to conference venue
12:00PM - 1:00PM Lunch at Columbia Tower Floor 76
Check-in & buffet lunch (Opening remarks begin at 12:45PM)
12:45PM - 1:10PM Welcome
Opening remarks
1:10PM - 1:30PM Interactive Session
Invited Speaker / Video: Dorothy Davis
1:30PM - 2:30PM Symposium I: Tim's Corner
Paul Grant, Chair
1:30PM - 1:40PM
Lucy Jenner: Feeling Safe: Trajectories of Outcomes
1:40PM - 1:50PM
Alison Branitski: Online Hearing Voices Peer Support Groups: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study
1:50PM - 2:00PM
Peter Panayi: Modeling the Interaction Between Complex PTSD and Psychosis: Insights from Experience Sampling Methodology
2:00PM - 2:10PM
Samantha Chalker: Suicide Prevention by Peers Offering Recovery Tactics (SUPPORT): Preliminary feasibility and acceptability data of a Peer Specialist-delivered recovery-oriented suicide prevention program for Veterans
2:10PM - 2:30PM
Chair-Moderated Discussion
2:30PM - 2:45PM Break
2:45PM - 3:45PM Innovations in Brief: Lightning Talks on New Research
Sarah Kopelovich, Chair
3:45PM - 4:15PM Invited Lived Experience Speaker
Carolynn Ponzoha: Living in Recovery from Schizoaffective Disorder
4:15PM - 4:30PM Reflections on Day 1
- Evening Social Activity -
5:15PM - 5:30PM Monorail
Gather outside Hotel Vintage to take the Monorail to Seattle Center
6:00PM - 9:00PM Opening Reception
Pacific Science Center Opening Reception
200 Second Ave N., Seattle WA 98109
- DAY 2 -
June 13th, 2024
9:00AM - 9:30AM Beckfest Breakfast
Breakfest is served promptly at 9AM at Columbia Tower
9:30AM - 10:30AM
Symposium II: New developments in understanding and treating specific targets within cognitive-behavioral approaches to psychosis
Tony Morrison, Chair
9:30AM - 9:40AM
Rowan Diamond: A Framework for Understanding Movement and Physical Activity in Patients Diagnosed with Psychosis
9:40AM - 9:50AM
David van den Berg: Effects of Trauma-Focused Therapy on Voice Hearing in Daily Life
9:50AM - 10:00AM
Filippo Varese: Trauma and Attenuated Symptoms in UHR/ARMS Individuals
10:00AM - 10:10AM
Shirley Glynn and Felice Reddy: A Novel Combination of Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Improve Motivation and Functioning in Schizophrenia
10:10AM - 10:30AM
Chair-Moderated Discussion
10:30AM - 10:45AM Break
10:45AM - 11:45AM
Panel I:Myths, Misunderstandings, and Misapplication of CBTp and their Related Harms
Emmanuelle Peters, Chair
11:45AM - 12:45PM Lunch
12:45PM - 1:15PM Group Photo / Walkabout
1:15PM - 2:15PM Symposium III: CBT Around the World
Mahesh Manon, Chair
1:15PM - 1:25PM
Shanaya Rathod and Peter Phiri: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Psychosis in the Asian Context
1:25PM - 1:35PM
Suzanne So: Towards a Stepped-care Psychological Intervention for Delusions: A Randomised Controlled Trial
Dror Ben-Zeev: Combining CBT Informed Digital Health and Pharmacotherapy to Improve Mental Health Outcomes in West Africa
1:35PM - 1:45PM
1:45PM - 1:55PM
Peter Phiri: Pan-African Network: A Step Towards The Development of a Pan-African CBT Association
1:55PM - 2:15PM
Chair-Moderated Discussion
2:15PM - 2:25PM Break
2:25PM - 2:45PM BS Scale
Kate Hardy and David van den Berg
2:45PM - 3:45PM Symposium IV: Lived Experience
2:45PM - 2:50PM
Rory Byrne Chair: Introduction
2:50PM - 3:05PM
Rory Byrne: What I've Learned from Qualitative Research in Psychosis
3:05PM - 3:15PM
Helen Beckwith: A Safe Place to Learn: Peer Research Qualitative Investigation of gameChange Virtual Reality Therapy
3:15PM - 3:25PM
Trez Buckland and Akansha Vaswani-Bye: Collaborating with the Family Peer Community in CBTp-Informed Caregiving
3:25PM - 3:45PM
Chair-moderated Discussion
3:45PM - 4:00PM Reflections on Day 2
Carolynn Ponzoha
- Evening Social Activity -
5:15PM - 5:30PM Argosy Cruise
Gather outside Hotel Vintage to walk to Argosy Cruise - Pier 56 - 1101 Alaskan Way, Seattle, WA 98101
6:00PM - 9:00PM Social Activity
Cruise, Dinner and DJ
- Day 3 -
June 14th, 2024
9:00AM - 9:30AM Beckfest Breakfast & Lysaker Memorium
Tania Lecomte
9:30AM - 10:40AM Symposium V: Theories and Mechanisms of Psychotic Symptoms
Emmanuelle Peters, Chair
9:30AM - 9:40AM
Rob Dudley: Visual Hallucinations: Why Do People See Things Others Do Not?
9:40AM - 9:50AM
Eva Tolmeijer: People's Ideas About the Causes of Feeling Unsafe Around Others
9:50AM - 10:00AM
Louise Isham: Grandiose Delusions: Testing a Theoretical Psychological Model
10:00AM - 10:10AM
Daniel Freeman: Paranoia: 22 Social and Cognitive Processes
10:10AM - 10:20AM
Richard Bentall: Are There Common Factors in Delusions and Other Personally Significant Beliefs?
10:20AM - 10:40AM
Chair-Moderated Discussion
10:40AM - 10:55AM Break
10:55AM - 12:05PM Symposium VI: Advances on the Digital Frontier
Patricia Arean, Chair
10:55AM - 11:05AM
Dror Ben-Zeev: Development and Evaluation of FOCUS: A Smartphone Intervention for Serious Mental Illness
11:05AM - 11:15AM
Ditte Lammers Vernal: Challenge: Virtual Reality for Auditory Hallucinations
11:15AM - 11:25AM
Justin Tauscher: Automated Detection of Thinking Styles and Cognitive Distortions in Psychosis and Serious Mental Illness
11:25AM - 11:35AM
Ben Buck: The Bolster Project: mHealth for Caregivers to Youth At-RIsk for Psychosis
11:35AM - 11:45AM
Sarah Kopelovich: Preliminary Investigation of the First Artificial Intelligence-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Training Tool
11:45AM - 12:05PM
Chair-Moderated Discussion
12:05PM - 1:00PM Lunch
1:00PM - 2:00PM Symposium VII: Implementation and Training
Kate Hardy, Chair
1:00PM - 1:10PM
Eric Granholm and Matthias Pilny: Improving Daily-Life Functioning in Schizophrenia with Cognitive Behavioral Social Skills Training delivered on Assertive Community Treatment: A Pragmatic Randomized-Controlled Trial Comparing ‘in-lab measures’ to Ecological Momentary Assessment of Outcomes
1:10PM - 1:20PM
Sarah Kopelovich: From Care Chasms to Care Pathways: Creating Something from (Next-to-) Nothing
1:20PM - 1:30PM
Dan Shapiro: CBT-based Stepped Care for Youths at Clinical High-Risk for Psychosis in Community Mental Health Settings: The SCIP Step Implementation Trial
1:30PM - 1:40PM
Paul Grant and Francesca Lewis-Hatheway: Going Big: Implementing and Sustaining Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R) in 4 State Systems; Lessons Learned
1:40PM - 2:00PM
Chair-moderated Discussion
2:00PM - 2:15PM Break
2:15PM - 3:15PM Implementation Mini-Workshop
Kate Comtois
3:15PM - 4:05PM Investing in Psychological Therapies: UK and US
Alison Brabban and Patricia Arean
4:05PM - 4:30PM Conference Closing
Closing remarks & Beckfest 2025
- Evening Social Activity -
6:00PM - 9:00PM Social Activity
Please meet at Pub 70 for Celebratory Dinner
2801 Alaskan Way, Suite 103, Seattle WA 98121