The tentative list of symposia is as follows:
Symposia
Feared Possible Selves in Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders
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
New Developments in VR/AR Exposure-Based Applications to Treat Phobic Disorders
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
The Secure Base Script: Introducing Attachment Theory to CBT and Evidence Based Treatment
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)
Is CBT a Good Match for Coaching? Current State-Of-The-Art and Future Directions in Cognitive-Behavioral Coaching
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
CBT for Insomnia (CBT-I): Use in Sleep Disorders and Other Mental Illnesses
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
The World Confederation of Cognitive And Behavioural Therapies: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Keith Dobson (Canada), Lata McGinn (USA), Rod Holland (UK), Mehmet Sungur (Turkey)
The Utility of CBT in Depressive and Neurodevelopmental Disorders Throughout the Life Span
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
CBT Applications with Unaccompanied Refugee Minors
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)
A Multidimensional Approach to Eating Disorders, Obesity and Body Image Distortions: A Combination of CBT with Schema Therapy and Body Image Techniques
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
Children of our Country who Come from Foreign Countries: The Actions of Traumatherapy-Group of the Institute of Behavior Research and Therapy in Athens, Greece
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)
Emotion Regulation in Childhood Anxiety Disorders: New Insights from Psychophysiological and Clinical Research
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
Treatment Without Borders: Feasibility and Acceptability of Psychological Interventions Across Different Cultures
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)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapies in Medical Conditions
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
Cognitive Flexibility in Emotional Disorders
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)
Breach of Couple Relationships
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
Cognitive Behavioral Therapies for Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: Mechanisms of Change and New Intervention Strategies
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)
Positive Sustainable CBT
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
New Approaches to Psychodiagnostic Assessment In CBT
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
Mechanisms of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
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
Emotion Regulation in Distinct Settings: From Schools to Telehealth
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
Self-Compassion as a Predictor and as a Mediator in Various Sets of Relationships (Including Self-Efficacy, Depression, Anxiety, Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation)
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