DIVISION OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY

FACULTY FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR FAMILIES

WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2021, VIRTUAL CONFERENCE


AGENDA


WEDNESDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2021

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09:2009:30Event Opens
09:3009:35Welcome
Dr. Paul Abeles
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Galaxy House, Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, MFT
09:3510:20ARFID and Autism: Considerations for Optimal Care
Dr. Rachel Bryant-Waugh
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
ARFID Service Clinic Lead

Rachel's talk will focus on autistic children and young people presenting with eating difficulties that meet diagnostic threshold for avoidant restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). The primary aim is to facilitate improved knowledge and awareness of identified needs in this population, as well as to promote consideration of adaptations to current practice that may improve quality of care. Reflection on identified challenges and dilemmas will be encouraged.
10:2010:25Screen Break
10:2511:10Autism and Eating Disorders: Implications for Services
Charli Babb
PHD Student
Cardiff University

My talk will be focused around our qualitative interview study, which helped us to gain an understanding of autistic women's experiences of eating disorder services from the perspectives of (1) autistic women with experience of anorexia, (2) parents of autistic women with experience of anorexia, and (3) healthcare professionals working in eating disorder services. I will outline the main themes from this study and draw particularly on the implications these results may have for eating disorder services.
11:1011:15Screen Break
11:1512:00Males get Eating Disorders too
Mr. Ben Robinson
Previous Inpatient CAMHS service user

Ben's session will talk about how his eating disorder developed, leading him to be hospitalised on a general hospital ward, before being detained under the mental health act and receiving treatment in an inpatient unit for over a year, before transitioning into CAMHS outpatient treatment. Ben will speak about the difficulties he faced during this period of time and what did/didn’t help him and how he decided to take the road to recovery and what challenges he faced through that.
12:0012:05Screen Break
12:0512:30Breakout Rooms for Discussion
12:3013:00Lunch Break - Breakout rooms remain open for discussions
13:0013:05Transition to Main Session
13:0513:50Masking and Gender in Autism
Dr. Laura Hull
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology PhD, University College London

Laura will summarise research into gender differences in the diagnosis and presentation of autism, particularly considering the impact of gender on diagnosis. She will present recent findings into the association between gender, masking, and mental health in autism.
13:5013:55Screen Break
13:5514:35Three Rolling Bite-Size Presentations to Smaller Groups

Creativity and Inspiration in Inpatient CAMHS through Music by Dr. Paul Abeles

Working with complexity using team formulation; exploring the functions, forms, value and challenges of formulation as a process in inpatient CAMHS by Dr. Samantha Hartley

Keeping an Open Mind - A Carer's Perspective by a Young Person (supported by Dr. Devorah Fabry)
14:3514:40Screen Break
14:4015:25Autistic Women’s Experience of Anorexia Nervosa - Potential Causing & Maintaining Factors
Ms. Janina Brede
PHD Student
University College London

Janina's talk will cover findings from a recent qualitative study exploring autistic women’s experience of AN based on the perspectives of 15 autistic women, 12 parents, and 16 professionals with relevant experience. She will also present a model of how restrictive eating difficulties might develop and maintain in autistic individuals, which was developed based on the findings from this qualitative study.
15:2515:30Screen Break
15:3016:30Plenary/Q&A with all presenters
       16:30Event Close

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