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- 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

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