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Event Details
This one day training session will help equip clinicians to increase their confidence in working with children with medically unexplained symptoms. Topics include: clinical spectrum of medically unexplained symptoms
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Event Details
This one day training session will help equip clinicians to increase their confidence in working with children with medically unexplained symptoms.
Topics include:
- clinical spectrum of medically unexplained symptoms and evidence-base for intervention
- service design and care-pathways
- functional neurological symptoms including non-epileptic seizures
- working across disciplines and with schools
- case examples and treatment challenges
We are delighted that Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan the author of the winner of the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize for her book It’s All in Your Head: True Stories of Imaginary Illness is delivering the opening plenary.
Who should attend?
Clinicians from a range of disciplines (including child and adolescent mental health and paediatrics) are invited to this one day conference and workshops.
Provisional Programme
Friday 12th January 2018
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Registration | |
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Welcome | Professor Isobel Heyman |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | Plenary | Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Plenary | Professor Elena Garralda |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Services for children with MUS | Dr Eve McAllister & Dr Maria Hadji-Michael |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Break | |
| 11:30 – 12:10 | Breaking the news to patients & working with systems | Dr Isobel Heyman & Dr Andy McWilliams |
| 12:10 – 12:50 | Assessment in Paediatric MUS | Dr Daniel Stark & Dr Prabhakar |
| 12:50 – 13:00 | Reflections & Questions | |
| 13:00 – 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 13:40 – 15:50 | Clinical Workshops – each workshop will run 3 times, and you will be allocated at registration to group A, B or C | |
| Workshop 1: The Role of Psychoeducation in helping to treat MUS | Dr Fiona McFarlane & Dr Lee Hudson | |
| Workshop 2: Key Principles in Treatment- | Dr Daniel Stark | |
| Workshop 3: Inpatient treatment and case example | Dr Jon Goldin & Dr Jane McNicholas | |
| 15:50 – 16:10 | Break | |
| 16:10 – 16:50 | Dilemmas & Future Directions in Paediatric MUS | Professor Trudie Chalder |
Time
All Day ()
Location
Kennedy Lecture Theatre
UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health