Professor Laurence Kirmayer from McGill University is a psychiatrist and expert in transcultural psychiatry.

He will be giving the opening keynote talk at the 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress, which will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.org/

Prof Kirmayer's talk is entitled: "Landscapes of trauma: A social-ecological approach to cultural diversity in mental health research, theory and practice.".

The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health.

The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.

Prof Laurence Kirmayer - Landscapes of trauma #ACOTS2021

Professor Willem Kuyken, Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, discusses his new meta-analysis of mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression. This new study is an important step forward for MBCT which now deserves to be considered alongside other evidence-based treatments for preventing the recurrence of depression. 

Willem also told us about his own personal journey to becoming one of the world's leading mindfulness researchers, and along the way we talked about the evidence for mindfulness-based interventions, the safety and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness, researcher allegiance, mindfulness in schools and how he sees mindfulness fitting into care pathways for people with depression.

Mindfulness with Willem Kuyken

Pim Cuijpers, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, discusses his new RCT of web-based guided self-help for preventing depression, published yesterday in JAMA.

This high quality study found that Internet-based guided self-help can prevent the onset of depressive disorders in some people who have sub threshold depression.

Preventing depression with Pim Cuijpers

The COCAPP study is about mental health risk, care planning and therapeutic relationships. This podcast interview with Alan Simpson and Sarah Carr explores the importance of assessing and managing risk, how to make care planning work for staff and service users, and what constitutes a positive therapeutic relationship.

Along the way we talk about the impact that austerity is having on the lives of service users, carers and staff, and we discuss what needs to be done to make research a central component of frontline mental health practice.

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Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Activist Jay Watts talks to us about borderline personality disorder and trauma-informed care.

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Clinician, Academic and Writer, Professor Linda Gask speaks about her own experience living with depression and anxiety, whilst working as a psychiatrist in the NHS.

Linda Gask

The Director of Common Room talks about her work on coproduction and shared decision making with children and young people.

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Prof Laurence Kirmayer - Landscapes of trauma #ACOTS2021

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