Seminar programme

SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 28th June 2023, 4-5pm

Prof Katherine Berry: Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Manchester 

Attachment, therapeutic alliance and service engagement in black people with psychosis 

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 31st April 2023, 4-5pm

Speaker to be confirmed... 

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 26th April 2023, 4-5pm

Speaker to be confirmed... 

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 29th March 2023, 4-5pm

Dr Aikaterini Rammou, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (To be confirmed)

Voice-hearing in young people: distress factors and social relating

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 22nd February 2023, 4-5pm

Speaker to be confirmed... 

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 25th January 2023, 4-5pm

Dr Clio Berry, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Evaluation and Improvement, Primary Care and Public Health, Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Preferences for psychological therapies for voice-hearing experiences

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 30th November, 4-5pm

Dr Richard Whale: Brighton and Sussex Medical School, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

The reality of treatment outcomes in early psychosis

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SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

Wednesday 26th October, 4-5pm

Katherine Newman-Taylor: Associate Prof of Psychology, University of Southampton

Psychological therapies and attachment style

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Mood and Anxiety Research in Sussex (MARS) and the Mood and Anxiety Clinical Academic Group (maCAG) hold monthly Zoom seminars from 4-5pm on the second Wednesday of the month, with the exception of August.  

 

We’re pleased to say that our speaker on Weds 12 October 4pm is Professor Dean McMillian, Hull York Medical School and Dept of Health Sciences, University of York. 

 

Title: Depression and loneliness in the time of Covid: The BASIL trial 

 

Abstract: The Covid pandemic led to profound restrictions on people's lives across the UK. The restrictions increased social isolation, a risk factor for low mood and loneliness. Older adults with multiple long-term conditions were at particular risk, because many were advised to shield, which involved taking extensive measures to limit contact with others. We conducted a randomised trial to see whether a Behavioural Activation intervention could help to reduce loneliness and improve mood for this population during the pandemic.

 

The presentation will describe the trial, the intervention we used, and the results.   

 

Everyone is very welcome to attend. We particularly welcome people with lived experience of mood and anxiety difficulties and their friends and family and clinicians and researchers with an interest in mood and anxiety difficulties 

 

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MARS is led by Fran Meeten and Clara Strauss between the School of Psychology (University of Sussex) and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

 

maCAG is led by Nick Grey in Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

 

SPRiG talk: Update from the Sussex Voices Clinic

To be rescheduled. Date: TBC

Prof Kathryn Greenwood: Professor of Psychology, University of Sussex, and Consultant Clincal Psychologist, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Finding from the Early Youth Engagement Trial (EYE-2), a new model of care for improving engagement in the Early Intervention Service

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maCAG is led by Nick Grey in Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust  

 

 

We’re delighted to announce that the speaker at our MARS and maCAG seminar on Wednesday 11 May 2022 4-5pm will be David Clark.

David is the National Clinical and Informatics Advisor for the IAPT programme and was one of the original architects of IAPT. He holds the Chair of Experimental Psychology at University of Oxford and where he conducts research on the understanding and treatment of anxiety disorders.

Title: The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Programme: 14 years of evolution and a look to the future

Abstract: The IAPT programme was created to overcome an injustice. Surveys showed that the general public had a 3:1 preference for receiving psychological therapies vs. medication for common mental health problems. However, psychological therapies were rarely available and waiting times were often over a year. In order to start addressing this problem, the IAPT programme trained a new workforce and deployed them in specialist stepped care psychological therapy services. From small beginnings in 2008, the programme has now grown to a point where it offers a course of NICE recommended psychological therapy to approximately 640,000 patients each year. Outcomes are recorded and publicly reported on 99% of treated individuals. Initially, outcomes were lower than one might expect from research studies. However, learning from variability in outcomes has helped services develop to a point where at a national level the programme has largely achieved its goal of helping 1 in 2 people to recover and 7 out of every 10 to experience marked improvement in their mental health. These are extraordinary achievements and a testament to an outstanding workforce. Persisting challenges and positive developments for the future are discussed.

Everyone is very welcome to attend. We particularly welcome people with lived experience of mood and anxiety difficulties and their friends and family and clinicians and researchers with an interest in mood and anxiety difficulties

 

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MARS is led by Fran Meeten and Clara Strauss between the School of Psychology (University of Sussex) and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

 

maCAG is led by Nick Grey in Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Wednesday 26th January 4.00-5.00pm

Dominic Oliver, PhD Student, Kings College London

"Predicting Psychosis: The transdiagnostic risk calculator”

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Join our Zoom FESTIVE SHOWCASE on Wednesday 15th December 2021 4.00-6.00pm

Speakers will present an overview of Psychosis Research in Sussex over the last year.

4.00-4.05 Welcome and introduction by Kathryn Greenwood, Director of SPRiG

4.05-4.10 Prof Kathryn Greenwood, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Research Fellow

“The effects on paranoia of SlowMo, a blended digital therapy in a randomised controlled trial”

This presentation will introduce a novel digitally supported therapy including some of the

highlights and key outcomes

4.10-4.15 Dr Mark Hayward, Director of Research and Development, Clinical Psychologist and

Research Fellow

“An Update on the Voices Clinic”

This presentation will offer an update on some of the ways that the Sussex Voices Clinic

has been trying to facilitate learning across diagnoses, the lifespan and service

boundaries.

 

4.15-4.20 Dr Rollo Sheldon, Consultant Psychiatrist and Clinical Lead for Western Community

Services

“Clinical outcome following switching antipsychotic treatment due to market withdrawal”

A naturalistic study of what happened when an old medication was withdrawn from the

market. What happened next? Did anyone relapse and which was the best subsequent

management strategy?

 

4.20-4.25 Dr Leanne Bogen-Johnson, Post-doctoral Research Fellow for Starting Well (Children

and Adolescent Mental Health)

“DisCOVery: Recovery alongside social isolation”

Research into the mental health impacts of COVID-19 for young people: A longitudinal

mixed-methods study, exploring the social and mental health impacts of the COVID-19

pandemic on 105 vulnerable young people from rural and coastal areas In Kent, Surrey,

Sussex and Norfolk.

 

4.25-4.30 Gergely Bartl, Post-doctoral Research Fellow and Trial Manager for the Early Youth

Engagement Project (EYE-2)

“Early youth engagement in first episode psychosis study (EYE-2)”

This presentation will highlight progress and implementation in the context of Covid-19 of

a novel motivational engagement intervention

 

4.30-4.35 Sofia Loizou, PhD Researcher in Clinical Psychology

“iMproving Outcomes of cogniTive behavIoural therapy for distressing VoicEs: a

qualitative study of voice hearers’ and practitioners’ views and perspectives (MOTIVE)”

Outcomes and measures used in recent trials of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for

voices (CBTv) indicates that there is a lack of consensus about what should be measured

and limited focus on the outcomes that matter to people who hear voices. MOTIVE

explores patients’ and practitioners’ perspectives, identifying commonly valued outcomes

for both research and practice.

 

4.35-5.00 An opportunity to ask questions

 

5.00-5.05 Ellie Robson, PhD Researcher in Clinical Psychology

“Implementing ‘ProReal’ a therapeutic avatar platform to enhance engagement with

online groups for young people in mental health services: A mixed methods feasibility

pilot”

This study explores the experiences and perspectives of clinicians and young people in a

social group for people with a first episode of psychosis and two psychotherapy groups in

CAMHS with anxiety and depression

 

5.05-5.10 Jamie Moffatt, PhD Researcher in Cognitive Psychology

“Induced and in-vivo anomalous experiences”

This talk summarises three studies conducted as part of my PhD. In two studies, we

induced feelings of body dis-ownership and illusory touch to explore dissociation and

hallucination-proneness in non-clinical groups. The third study explored the impact of

COVID-19 on anomalous experiences in the general population.

 

5.10-5.15 Alexandra Bone, Trainee Clinical Psychologist

“An Exploration of How Lead Practitioners Understand and Navigate Boundaries in Early

Intervention in Psychosis Services”

A grounded theory study exploring how lead practitioners in Early Intervention services

develop their understanding and practice around navigating boundaries given the

inherent challenges within this service model (e.g. navigating assertive engagement).

 

5.15-5.20 Dr Kat Rammou, Trainee Clinical Psychologist

“Voice-hearing in young people: distress factors and social relating”

Psychological models in adults have indicated several psychological factors that could

maintain the distress related to voice-hearing experiences include negative inter-relating

between the hearer and the voices and holding persecutory beliefs about voices. Little is

known about distressing voice-hearing in young people, this study provided preliminary

evidence on the factors that contribute to voice-related distress in youth and the impact of

voice-hearing on young people’s social relating.

 

5.20-5.25 Dr Elizabeth Ford, Senior Lecturer in Primary Care Research

“Providing targeted mental health information for people with risk of future psychological

distress”

This presentation will discuss how we are using our electronic health records to better

identify and meet the needs of our service-users

 

5.20-5.30 Dr Clio Berry, Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Evaluation and Improvement

“Preferences for psychological therapies for voice-hearing experiences”

PREFER is a questionnaire study that aims to better understand patients’ preferences

regarding psychological therapies for distressing voices. It is the first known largescale

survey on this topic. Preliminary findings from c.250 survey respondents will be shared.

5.30-6.00 Further questions and round up

Everyone is welcome with no need to register, using the Zoom link

 

https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97718203112?pwd=VmgzMVNGNUl5NTFqd0tWM3YvMXFZZz09

Wednesday 24th November 4.00-5.00pm

Dr Emma Cernis, Trial Co-ordinator and Lead Therapist, University of Oxford

“Dissociation in non-affective psychosis”

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Wednesday 27th October 4.00-5.00pm

Dr Peter Mosley, Senior Research Fellow, University of Northumbria

"Cognitive and perceptual processes underlying voice-hearing in psychosis and nonclinical

populations"

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Wednesday 6th October 4.00-5.30pm

Dr Kathryn Greenwood, Clinical Psychologist
Dr Nick Grey, Clinical Psychologist
Jo Hillier, Digital Clinical Director,

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

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Our SPRiG series starts again on Wednesday 29th September 4.00-5.00pm (UK time)

Dr Stephanie Allen, Research Assistant, University of Glasgow "Process evaluating a mobile phone based self-management intervention blended with peer support"

Here's the link to join: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/97718203112?pwd=VmgzMVNGNUl5NTFqd0t...

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Our next seminar is Wednesday 30th June 4.00-5.00pm (UK time)

(Note this is the last for the academic year, seminars resume again in September)

"Increasing access to CBT for people experiencing psychosis: Findings and lessons learnt from the GiVE2 trial"

Mark Hayward & Kathy Greenwood

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & University of Sussex

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for psychosis (CBTp) is recommended for all people experiencing psychosis but is offered to only a minority. This is attributable, in part, to the resource intensive nature of CBTp. Responses to this problem have included the development of CBTp in brief and targeted formats and its delivery by briefly trained therapists. Our programme of research is exploring a combination of these responses by evaluating a brief CBT-informed intervention targeted at distressing voices (the GiVE intervention) and delivered by briefly trained Assistant Psychologists (APs).

We conducted the GiVE2 trial, a three-arm feasibility RCT comparing: 1) the GiVE intervention; 2) a Supportive Counselling intervention; and 3) Treatment-as-usual. Feasibility outcomes were favourable regarding the recruitment and retention of participants and the fidelity of APs to therapy and supervision protocols. For the candidate primary outcomes, benefits were in favour of GiVE in comparison to both SC and TAU at post-treatment. At follow-up, the picture was less clear, as there seems to be a belated benefit of SC.

This presentation will explore some of the lessons learnt from the GiVE2 trial and will consider possible implications for clinical practice.

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Time: Every month on the Last Wednesday 4pm-5pm (UK time)

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Join us for our next seminar: Wednesday 26th May 4.00-5.00pm (UK time)

Dr David H. Rosmarin, PhD, ABPP, Director, Spirituality & Mental Health Program, McLean Hospital

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School

"Beyond Religious Delusions: Spirituality, Religion & Mental Health"

Individuals with symptoms of psychosis (as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder, and mania) often present with religious symptoms, involving idioms, themes, and content of a religious nature. The extant literature is replete with descriptions and clinical approaches to religious delusions, given that such instances involve the core symptoms of psychopathology and are difficult to ignore. However, there are many other aspects of spirituality and religion which tend to not be discussed by academicians and clinicians, even though these are much more commonplace and often relevant to both symptoms and treatment. Based on current research, this lecture will provide a clinically useful framework for identifying and addressing positive and negative facets of spirituality/religion, as well as religious symptoms, when treating and studying individuals with psychosis and other concerns.

David H. Rosmarin, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Director of the McLean Hospital Spirituality & Mental Health Program. He has innovated several methods for integrating spirituality into evidence-based mental health treatments, and he is a well-cited researcher in this area who has authored over 90 peer reviewed publications. Dr. Rosmarin’s clinical and academic accomplishments have been featured in Scientific American, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

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Topic: SPRiG Sussex Psychosis Research Group Seminars

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Time: Every month on the Last Wednesday 4pm-5pm (UK time)

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Wednesday 31st March 4.00-5.00pm (UK time)
Prof. Dr. Mar Rus-Calafell
Mental Health Research and Treatment Centre, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Digital technology offers new opportunities to enhance effective cognitive and behavioural techniques to improve symptoms of psychosis in a novel, engaging and personalised way. At the same time, it provides new therapeutic contexts that can go beyond face-to-face communication between the person and the therapist, such as virtual environments capable of eliciting real-time reactions and providing immediate feedback. Despite the rapid increase on the design and testing of digital psychological therapies using different technologies (e.g., internet-based, smartphone technology or virtual reality), important aspects such us implementation or mental health professional training remain big challenges. This talk will focus on my experience as a clinician and researcher working with digital psychological therapies for psychosis and it will bring up the opportunity to have an open discussion about the future of these approaches, and how we can all work together to overcome important challenges.

See the presentation here

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Time: Every month on the Last Wednesday 4pm-5pm (UK time)

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Jamie Moffatt, Doctoral Researcher, University of Sussex: “Recreating Unusual Bodily Sensations"

Note that this is now the same Zoom link for all seminars until the end of the academic year

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Topic: SPRiG Sussex Psychosis Research Group Seminars

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Passcode: 040192

Time: Every month on the Last Wednesday 4pm-5pm (UK time)

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Wednesday 27th January 4.00-5.00pm (UK time)

Dr. Sarah Reeve, Post Doctoral Researcher and Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University College London: 

"The role of sleep problems in psychosis: causal relevance and clinical implications"

Sleep problems are a common issue for patients with psychosis, and a growing body of research identifies sleep as having a causal role in the onset and maintenance of psychotic symptoms. Yet, sleep problems are rarely addressed in standard clinical practice. In this talk I will describe my doctoral research, supervised by Prof Daniel Freeman and Dr Bryony Sheaves, on how sleep contributes to psychotic experiences. I will then provide an overview of recent (and ongoing) RCTs investigating sleep interventions across the spectrum of psychosis, including patients at-risk of psychosis, patients with chronic psychotic symptoms, and inpatient settings. Overall, I hope to show that sleep is an accessible and relevant treatment target for many patients, and that taking sleep seriously in psychosis can have significant benefits.

Please see this presentation on the SPRiG website here

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JOIN US ON ZOOM FOR OUR NEXT SPRIG (psychosis research) SEMINAR:

Wednesday 9th December  FESTIVE SHOWCASE 3.00-5.00pm (UK time)

Speakers from the SPRiG will be presenting a short 10 minute overview of their research

Everyone welcome!

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Schedule of Speakers

3.00-3.15 Introduction: Professor Kathryn Greenwood Director of SPRiG

3.15-3.25: Professor Kathryn Greenwood: The EYE-2 project

Changes in Early Intervention Services: A policy and process evaluation in EYE-2

3.25-3.35 Ellie Robson: The ProReal Study

A feasibility pilot investigating the application of a therapeutic avatar platform 'ProReal' in remote online groups for young people with anxiety disorders and first episode psychosis 

3.35-3.45 Dr Richard Whale: S1P Cohort 

Outcomes in early psychosis: The S1P study 

3.45-3.55 Jamie Moffatt: Recreating feelings of body dis-ownership with mixed-reality

I will describe a novel method for recreating the sensation of body dis-ownership in the lab and present findings from a study which explored potential causes of these unusual sensations and how they may be associated with unusual experiences that occur in daily life. 

3.55-4.05 Dr. Mark Hayward: Give2 Trial 

Increasing access to CBTp: is there a role for Assistant Psychologists? 

This talk will present initial findings from a trial of CBT for distressing voices where the intervention was delivered by Assistant Psychologists.

4.05-4.15 Dr. Mark Hayward: The Voices Clinic

"I don't think that interventions can be delivered remotely to this client group" - What do I know!

This presentation will reflect upon experiences within the Sussex Voices Clinic as we have delivered our interventions remotely during the pandemic.

4.15-4.25 Kelly Wilson: The NEON Study

NEON (Narrative Experiences Online): Accessing recovery stories online, and assessing the impact this can have on peoples’ mental health.

4.25-4.35 Dr Christopher Scane: The STAR Trial

The Study of Trauma and Recovery (STAR) trial. This is a multi-site RCT looking at the effectiveness of a trauma-focused CBTp intervention for people experiencing symptoms of psychosis and post-traumatic stress, as we know that rates of trauma are elevated in people with psychosis

4.35-4.45: Experiences of SlowMo participation 

Our service-user Angie gives her perspective on what it was like taking part in the SlowMo trial - Evaluating a digital therapy targeting reasoning in paranoia 

4.55-5.00: Round Up

If you have any questions, please email the SPRiG team at Sussex University: sprig@psychology.sussex.ac.uk

JOIN US ON ZOOM FOR OUR NEXT SPRIG (psychosis research) SEMINAR:

Dr. Joseph Firth, Presidential Fellow at the University of Manchester

"Protecting Physical Health in People with Mental Illness: Findings from the Lancet Psychiatry Commission"

 

Join us on Zoom via on Wednesday 25th November 4.00-5.00pm using the link below:

Meeting ID: 948 7894 2420
Passcode: 263892 

 

 

The poor physical health, and associated premature mortality, of people with mental illness is increasingly recognised as a human rights issue. The 2019 Lancet Psychiatry Commission brought together a team of clinicians, researchers, and stakeholders to summarise the latest evidence for understanding and addressing these physical health disparities. The Commission involved 5 different ‘Parts’: In Part 1, a systematic meta-review was undertaken, and identified cardiometabolic diseases as highly-common and early-arising in people treated for mental illness; impeding physical health, psychological well-being and functional recovery. Part 2 determined key targets and priorities for tackling physical health risks associated with mental illness. Part 3 discussed the effects of psychotropic medications on physical health, and outlined pharmacological strategies for attenuating this. Parts 4 and 5 presented recommendations for the use physical health interventions to improve outcomes in mental health populations; recommending these be implemented immediately in young people treated for mental illness (even prior to physical comorbidities arising).  The evidence behind these recommendations, along with strategies for implementing evidence-based physical health interventions, will be presented.

If you have any questions, please email the SPRiG team at Sussex University: sprig@psychology.sussex.ac.uk

Wednedsay 28th October 4.00-5.00pm

See the presentation here