Wednesday 26 March Wedgewood 11.30 Registration opens 12:00 Lunch in restaurant Conference Welcome Chair Introduction to themes Dr Jonathan Williams Keynote Presentation The Psychology of Leadership: Perspectives from Intellectual Disabilities Prof Robert Jones Refreshment Break 13:15 13:30 – 14:10 14:15 – 15:00 15:00 – 15:30 15:30 – 16:15 16:15 – 17:00 17:00 19:00 Keynote Presentation Lessons from Systemic Theory and Practice Dr Sandra Baum, Dr Henrik Lynggaard Keynote Presentation Eating Elephants - working in an international context Dr Roger Banks Close Dinner in the Wedgewood Suite Thursday 27 March 09:00 Wedgewood Registration opens 09:25 Welcome 09:30 – 11:00 Workshop 1 Working systemically with staff in a learning disability context Dr Sandra Baum, Dr Henrik Lynggaard 11:00 – 11:30 Refreshment break 11:30 – 12:15 What evidence is needed before an intervention can be called “evidence-based”? Implications for psychological interventions with adults with intellectual disability Prof Richard Hastings Lunch in the Restaurant The Application of Acceptance and Mindfulness Principles in Services for People with Learning Disabilities Post Winterbourne View Dr Steve Noone 12:15 – 13:15 13:15 – 14:00 14:00 – 15:30 Workshop 1 Working systemically with staff in a learning disability context Dr Sandra Baum , Dr Henrik Lynggaard 15:30 – 16:00 16:00 – 17:15 Menai Conwy Workshop 2 Consultation Working with staff teams in learning disabilities services Dr Kevin Wright Workshop 3 DBT Working with people with intellectual disability and complex emotional difficulties: helping your client to regulate Dr Lesley Leeds Workshop 2 Consultation Working with staff teams in learning disabilities services Dr Kevin Wright Workshop 3 DBT Working with people with intellectual disability and complex emotional difficulties: helping your client to regulate Dr Lesley Leeds Refreshment break and Poster Presentations Papers Working with Systems around the person Paper Group Interventions To Care or not to Care? An evaluation of a series of cognitive, systemic and neurobehavioral group training programs for family carers of adults with severe intellectual disabilities Group-based mindfulness skills training for individuals with a learning disability Kirsty James , Graham Thew , Liam Reilly, Russell Botting, Felicity Cowdrey, Linda Walz Workshop 4 Using Acceptance and Mindfulness approaches with teams: Practical and process considerations Dr Jonathan Williams, Dr Steve Noone Sabiha Azmi, Rose Tomlins A reveiw of the literature and evidence base on Staff training and CBT for anxiety and depression: A literature review Sabiha Azmi, Ioanna Tsimopoulou, Gemma Unwin Recovery through compassion: A group based intervention Paula Manners Continued Can brief awareness training impact on police attitudes towards people with intellectual disabilities? Roman Raczka, Janice Williams Cognitive Behavioural Therapy group programme for adults with Intellectual disabilities presenting with Generalised anxiety. Clinical applications and implications Sabiha Azmi, Nadia Begum 17:30 19:30 20:00 Faculty for Learning Disabilities Annual General Meeting Wine Reception Conference Dinner in the Menai Suite followed by music from Monsters on the bus Friday 28 March 09:00 Wedgewood Registration opens Menai 09:30 Welcome 09:35 -10:00 Update in Challenging Behaviour- A unified approach Dr Alick Bush 10:00 – 11:15 Workshop 5 Outcomes and New Developments in Assessment Dr Karen Dodd, Dr Zillah Webb Workshop 6 What do people with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour say about the services they receive? : Implications for developing supports Dr Gemma Griffith, Dr Alick Bush Conwy Paper Therapeutic Approaches The use of mindfulness with people with intellectual disabilities: a systematic review and narrative analysis Erica McInnis , Dougal Hare Integrating African Centred Psychotherapy and Continued Continued Disability Psychotherapy for Adults with Intellectual Disability. The fourth wave? Erica McInnis Tree of life narrative-based group Myro Themistocleous 11:15 – 11:45 Refreshment break 11-45 – 13:00 Symposium The evolving role of Clinical Psychologist in supporting adults with Intellectual Disabilities. Working in partnerships to achieve effective outcomes? Liz Offen Paper 1 Towards Partnership working in a Trauma and Abuse Service Sara Willott Paper 2 Birmingham Parents with Learning Disabilities Network Project Laura Ogi 12:50 – 13:25 13:30 Paper 3 Working in Partnership to developing and delivering an ethnically inclusive service Sabiha Azmi Update on Faculty Activities Dr Karen Dodd Update on Therapies Guidance Prof Nigel Beail Fare well and announcement for 2015 Grab & Go lunch available Papers Outcome Measures Paid caregivers’ empathy towards people with intellectual disabilities: the development of a new measure (the EMP-ID) and some initial theory Kirsten Collins, Caroline Gratton and Celia Heneage, Dave Dagnan Clinician-judged attachment narrative style and the course and outcome of psychological therapy in people with intellectual disability and complex Allan Skelly Validating a new patient reported outcome measure for adults with intellectual disabilities: the Mini MANS-LD Roman Raczka, Janice Williams Papers Assessment of challenging behaviour and other needs Challenging Behaviour Scales: Criterion-related Evidence of Validity Rai Turton A review of an approach and methods of assessing risk arising from behaviour that challenges Rai Turton Learning disabilities needs based cluster development: using research methods to inform national policy Barry Ingham, Jon Painter , Ashok Roy, Richard Hastings, Sally Robinson, Carole Green Poster Presentations Thursday 27 March Auditing and reducing restrictive practice in a social care setting for people with autism spectrum conditions, intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour – A pilot study Paul Dickinson The Emotional Perception Abilities of Adults with an Intellectual Disability and how this is Related to Challenging Behaviour Bronwen Davies, Neil Frude, Rosemary Jenkins, Cathy Harding, Caley Hill The utility of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment as a mental capacity assessment tool for patients with a learning disability Daniel Edge, Amber Evans, Carys Evans Challenging behaviour profiles of females with Mild Learning Disability (LD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) – Are they all the same? Carys Evans, Adenekan Oyefeso, Amber Evans Post Winterbourne: An enhanced intervention team pilot for people with learning disabilities displaying behaviour that challenges Karin Fuchs, Peggy Ravoux, Lucy Mackintosh Creative Relaxation - Exploring and evaluating the effectiveness of a person-centred programme of relaxation therapies with adults with a mild to moderate learning disabilities Nick Hart Responding to the capacity demand gap: evaluating the effectiveness of an anxiety management group (based on CBT and Mindfulness approaches) for individuals with mild Intellectual Disabilities Sabinah Janally, Mairi Emerson-Smith, Charlotte Richardson Linking the lives of mothers with intellectual disabilities, informed by narrative therapy: “The True Story of Mothers with Learning Disability – We CAN Do It!” Iiris Kleinberg, Kate Theodore, Roman Raczka Do levels of evidence affect breadth of service? An audit of MATRIX therapies in a service for adults with intellectual disabilities Eleni Pateraki Changing narratives changing behaviour: evaluating a systemic case formulation approach to working with staff teams Lorna Robbins Development and Facilitation of a Social Skills and Relationship Group run in an Adult Community Learning Disability Service Natalie Startin