Chair: Frederick Aardema (Canada)
Frederick Aardema (Canada): Development and validation of the multidimensional version of the fear of self questionnaire: Corrupted, culpable and malformed feared possible selves in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Shiu F. Wong (Canada): Feared self and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: An experimental manipulation using virtual reality
Jean-Sebastien Audet (Canada): Not all intrusions are created equal: The role of context, feared-self perceptions and inferential confusion in the occurrence of abnormal intrusions
Louis-Philippe Baraby (Canada): Dysfunctional reasoning processes and their relationship with feared self-perceptions and obsessive-compulsive symptoms: An investigation with a new task-based measure of inferential confusion
Martha Giraldo-O’Meara (Canada): Exploring the role of fear of self in body dysmorphic disorder symptomatology
Chair: Dorothée Bentz (Switzerland)
Philip Lindner (Sweden): Virtual Reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety in routine care: A single-subject effectiveness trial
Javier Fernández Alvarez (Spain): Imagery rescripting plus one session Virtual Reality Therapy for the treatment of Social Anxiety Disorder: A non-concurrent multiple baseline design
Tara Donker (Germany): Effectiveness of self-guided app-based Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy for acrophobia – A Randomized Clinical Trial
Dorothée Bentz (Switzerland): Effectiveness of a stand-alone, smartphone-based virtual reality exposure app to reduce fear of heights in real-life: A randomized controlled trial
Anja Zimmer (Switzerland): Effectiveness of a stand-alone, smartphone-based gamified augmented reality exposure app to reduce fear of spiders in real-life: A randomized controlled trial
Chair: Guy Bosmans (Belgium)
Melisse Houbrechts (Belgium): Cumulative family risk and externalizing problems: Secure base script knowledge as a protective factor/ buffer
Bien Cuyvers (Belgium): Attachment Disorder symptoms and prosocial behavior in middle childhood: The Role of Secure Base Script Knowledge
Chloe Finet (Belgium): Development of attachment in children adopted internationally from China: The role of pre-adoption experiences and sensitive parenting
Leen Van Vlierberghe (Belgium): Middle Childhood Attachment Therapy: An intervention to stimulate secure base script development in children with emotional and behavioral problems
Discussant: Guy Bosmans (Belgium)
Chair: Oana A. David (Romania)
Oana A. David (Romania): From CBT to CBC
Cristina T. Lorint & Oana A. David (Romania): A meta-analysis to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral coaching
Loana Comșa (Romania): Models and general factors as mechanisms in CBC. Is solution-CBC better than classic CBC?
Cristina T. Lorint & Oana A. David (Romania): The efficacy of different types of CBC delivery methods
Chair: Dimitris Dikeos, Ioannis Michopoulos (Greece)
Dimitris Dikeos (Greece): Sleep Disorders and their treatment approaches
Μary Νtafouli (Greece): CBT-I protocol in insomnia and other sleep disorders
Rodanthi-Agapi Kourtzi (Greece): CBT-I: efficacy beyond sleep-related symptoms
Keith Dobson (Canada), Lata McGinn (USA), Rod Holland (UK), Mehmet Sungur (Turkey)
Chair: Markella Fiste (Greece)
Erifilli Tsirempolou (Greece): Using CBΤ techniques in children with autism spectrum disorder
Evangelia Karra (Greece): CBT’s contribution to adolescents with mild depressive symptoms as a result of bullying behavior
Markella Fiste (Greece): CBT in menopausal depression
Aristotelis Koinis (Greece): The effectiveness of the cognitive-behavioral approach in the treatment of depression in elderly
Chair: Ioanna Giannopoulou (Greece)
Kirsi Peltonen (Finland): Treating children and adolescents with multiple traumas: A randomized clinical trial of narrative exposure therapy
William Yule (UK): Teaching recovery techniques to unaccompanied refugee minors: An evidence-based CBT group approach
Discussant: Panos Vostanis (UK)
Chair: Elena Heinz (Greece)
Elena Heinz (Greece): A multidimensional approach to eating disorders, obesity and body image distortions: A combination of CBT with schema therapy and body image techniques
Christi Passalidou (Greece): Eating disorders and schema therapy
Maria Evangelopoulou (Greece): Working with the overweight patient. A schema therapy approach
Fani Siamouli (Greece): Eating disorders and family issues in treating children and adolescents
Chair: Anastasia Kalantzi-Azizi (Greece)
Christina Varveri (Greece): The child and the liberation from the shadow of the terrible big fear
Roza Laious (Greece): A guide for refugee parents: How can I help my traumatised child
Katerina Sofianopoulou (Greece): The little I am me
Theodora Anastasiou (Greece): Trauma-focused CBT training program applied to unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) with PTSD
Discussant: Diana Charila (Greece)
Chair: Michael W. Lippert (Germany)
Co-Chair: Tabea Flasinski (Germany)
Tabea Flasinski (Germany): The development and evaluation of emotion inducing film scenes in children and adolescents
Michael W. Lippert (Germany): Differences in avoidance as an emotion regulation strategy in children and adolescents with separation anxiety, specific phobia and social anxiety disorder
Marie-Lotte van Beveren (Belgium): Emotion dysregulation, Temperamental vulnerability, and parental depression in adolescents: Correspondence between physiological and informant-report measures
Leonie Lidle (Germany): Alterations in gaze behaviour of socially anxious children in a real-life social interaction – An eye-tracking analysis
Sara Jakobsson Månsson (The Netherlands): Using blended care to treat social anxiety complaints in adolescents: A feasibility study
Chair: Miriam Lommen (The Netherlands)
Marit Sijbrandij (The Netherlands): Problem Management Plus (PM+) for Syrian refugees in the Netherlands
Naser Morina (Switzerland): Feasibility and acceptability of a scalable psychological intervention in Syrian refugees in Switzerland – Results from the pilot RCT
Ceren Acarturk (Turkey): Prevention of mental health disorders among Syrian refugees in Turkey: Self Help Plus (SH+)
Miriam Lommen (The Netherlands): The acceptability of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy in Indonesian community health care
Discussant: Theo Bouman (The Netherlands)
Chair: Ioannis Michopoulos, Stefanos Koulis (Greece)
Christina Golemati (Greece): Psychological factors in rheumatic autoimmune diseases
Evgenia Daskalopoulou (Greece): The efficacy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in fibromyalgia – review and description of a case study
Ion Beratis (Greece): Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Parkinson’s disease
Marina Chrysoula Papada (Greece): Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in chronic headaches
Chair: Nilly Mor (Israel)
Baruch Perlman (Israel): Cognitive bias modification for inferential flexibility
Malvika Godara (Belgium): A context-dependent approach towards training affective attention flexibility
Reut Zabag (Israel): Social Anxiety is associated with a specific deficit in cognitive flexibility as measured by a novel reversal learning task
Tobias Kube (Germany): Why negative expectations in depression persist – Experimental findings and implications for clinical practice
Discussant: Eva Gilboa-Schechtman (Israel)
Chair: Evaggelos Papadakis (Greece)
Elena Heinz (Greece): About jealousy
Evaggelos Papadakis (Greece): Infidelity: What do we (couple and therapist) do now?
Loukas Athanasiadis (Greece): Hypoactive (Low) sexual desire disorder
Christina Hionidou (Greece): “Unfinished business” and complicated grief following the death of a spouse
Chair: Katrina Prior (Australia)
Edwin Schenkel (Germany): Long-term results of inhibition training for currently abstinent alcohol-dependent patients to prevent relapse
Elske Salemink (The Netherlands): Affective comorbidity moderates the relapse-preventive effect of alcohol-related Approach Bias Modification
Katrina Prior (Australia): Feasibility and acceptability of an internet-delivered, comorbidity-focussed cognitive bias modification program for young people with anxiety and hazardous alcohol use
Lexine Stapinski (Australia): Are we making inroads? Results of an RCT of early intervention for co-occurring anxiety and alcohol use problems
Chair: Benedikt Reuter (Germany)
Jana Hansmeier (Germany): The relevance of behavior-related changes for the treatment outcome in obsessive-compulsive disorder – a pilot study
Björn Elsner (Germany): Short-term outcome of CBT for OCD can be predicted by habituation and expectancy violation during exposure
Jakob Fink-Lamotte (Germany): Disgust reduction through imagery strategies in patients with contamination-related obsessive-compulsive disorder
Lena Jelinek (Germany): Exposure and response prevention in virtual reality for obsessive-compulsive disorder: The role of disgust
Discussant: Benedikt Reuter (Germany)
Chair: Tammie Ronen (Israel)
Merav Barkavi-Shani (Israel): The power of positive psychology during CBT Training on trainees
Yael Sharon (Israel): Positive sustainable CBT arts
Tammie Ronen (Israel): Positive CBT as a main tool for sustainability in developing countries
Chair: Aristide Saggino (Italy)
Aristide Saggino (Italy): Intelligent and open-source testing platform: An alternative future for psychological tests and assessment
Anca Dobrean (Romania): Factor structure and measurement invariance across age, gender and clinical status of the screen for children anxiety related emotional disorders, in a Romanian sample of 9–16-year-olds
Sjoerd Ebisch (Italy): Measuring intersubjective understanding: Empathic Experience Scale
Chair: Mareike Samaan (Germany)
Maria Karekla (Cyprus): Mechanism of action in ACT: Findings from two randomized clinical trials
Mareike Samaan (Germany): Influencing effects of clinical characteristics and ACT specific mechanisms of change during inpatient treatment
Andrew Gloster (Switzerland): Change of psychological flexibility and values during therapy
Chair: Mariana Sampaio (USA)
Mariana Sampaio (USA): Virtual Reality (VR) enhanced DBT® Mindfulness skills training: Using technology to augment emotion regulation
Michelli Simpson (USA): The effectiveness of iEMDR on emotion regulation
Débora Fava (Brasil): Training teachers of young children for better emotional and behavior regulation in classroom: A transtheoretical model
Chair: Gregoris Simos (Greece)
Meropi Simou (Greece): Self-compassion and self-efficacy on their way to state anxiety
Susan Evans (USA): The association of self-compassion and emotion regulation on positive mood states through mindfulness training in a non-clinical sample
Anna Delithanasi (Greece): Self-compassion and social anxiety on their way to depression