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EAPM 2023 Workshop


Please find below information about the workshops that will be held at EAPM 2023 Conference.

Limited spaces available. Please find information about registration here.

Workshop registration fee: €10 each.

JOINT ACLP-EAPM CLINICAL WORKSHOP: HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE PSYCHODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF THE CONSULTATION
THURSDAY, JUNE 15TH
17:45-19:00hs
 
Kemuel Philbrick, MD1; Wolfgang Söllner, MD2; Friedrich Stiefel, MD3; Ewa Bieber, MD4
 
1Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA; 2Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany; 3Service of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland; 4Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago IL, USA.
 
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  • Objective:
    The EAPM and ACLP both support training C-L psychiatrists and psychosomatic medicine specialists to carry out psychodynamically-informed assessments of how patients unconsciously shape the meaning of their illness and the challenge to press on in life. Faced with multiple competing pressures to efficiently care for medical patients, C-L psychiatrists and allied health professionals will better meet the needs of their patients if they are equipped to listen and think through the whole meaning of the patient’s illness and suffering.
  • Methods:
    We will address these issues through presentation and discussion of two cases that illustrate the advantages provided by dynamically informed consultation. A panel of experienced and analytically trained C-L experts will show how a psychodynamic grasp of the patient enriches the psychiatric consultant’s ability to understand how the patient is metabolizing their illness, formulating their challenges, and choosing how to respond.
  • Results:
    The commentaries will illustrate how trainees can be encouraged to cultivate the capacity to integrate dynamic formulation into their consultative work.
  • Conclusions:
    Presenting actual patients, drawing on the deep experience of the panel members to comment, and then inviting audience participation for further reflection on the task of working with the medically ill who have significant psychodynamic contributions to their behavior will strengthen the ability of all participants to bring these skills to bear on their daily clinical work.
WORKSHOP: HOW TO USE TACTILE-INDUCED CATALEPSY TO TREAT FUNCTIONAL NEUROLOGICAL DISORDER
FRIDAY, JUNE 16TH
12:00-13:15hs
 
A.G. Lever (PhD), psychologist
L.M. Tak (MD, PhD), psychiatrist
Dimence Institute for Specialized Mental Health Care, Alkura Specialist Center Persistent Somatic Symptoms, Deventer, Netherlands

Abstract:
Functional neurological disorder (FND) is a prevalent, potentially disabling condition that benefits from early diagnosis and treatment, such as physiotherapy or psychotherapy. However, not all patients benefit from those treatments and not all treatments are easy accessible, therefore there is a need for more options. A technique that is increasingly used in the Netherlands to treat motor symptoms of FND is tactile-induced catalepsy. Catalepsy refers to a condition characterized by muscular rigidity, which can be used to retrain normal bodily movement and control. Patients may experience how to calm or ‘reset’ the body (in case of tremors or uncoordinated body movements), stabilize their body (in case of balance problems), or relearn standing or walking (in case of paresis, paralysis and various gait disorders). This technique is still quite unknown among neurologists, psychologists and physiotherapists worldwide in research and clinical practice.

In this workshop, we introduce the theoretical background of catalepsy and we provide a practical description of the technique itself. Our aim is to raise awareness of this technique, so scientific and clinical interest may be increased.

We use video-material to show how to induce catalepsy and show patients with FND to whom this technique has been applied. Also, we are going to practice with participants of this workshop to induce and experience catalepsy.
WORKSHOP ON THE MANAGEMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS IN PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV / AIDS
FRIDAY, JUNE 16TH
16:00-17:15
 
Jordi Blanch MD PhD
Psychiatrist. Director of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Hospital Universitari de Santa Maria de Lleida / Gestió de Serveis Sanitaris
Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Hospital Clinic of Barcelona
Associate Professor, University of Barcelona
  • Justification of the workshop:
    The incidence of new HIV-infections in Europe is still high and the prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders is higher than in the general population. HIV infection and psychiatric disorders have a complex relationship.  Being HIV infected could result in psychiatric disorders as a psychological consequence of the infection or because of the effect of the HIV virus on the brain.  Disorders may be as varied as depression, anxiety, sleep disorders, psychotic symptoms, or neurocognitive impairment. In addition, psychiatric conditions may predispose individuals to acquire HIV infection (through high-risk behaviours), and/or create a barrier to medical care, communication with clinicians, and adherence to medical recommendations.
  • Objective of the workshop:
    To provide the necessary knowledge for the management of the mental health problems of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus.
  • Methodology of the workshop:
    The theoretical explanation will be based on clinical cases.
WORKSHOP: DIAGNOSTIC AND TREATMENT OF FUNCTIONAL SOMATIC DISORDERS (I.E., PRIMARY PAIN) IN A PAIN CLINIC: CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Chairs:
 
Per Fink 1,3, MD, PhD, DMSc. Professor and head of department.
Majbritt Mostrup Pedersen 2, MSc, PhD. Clinical psychologist experienced in psychotherapy and multidisciplinary pain treatment.
Lise Kirstine Gormsen 1,2, MD, PhD. Experienced clinician, educator and researcher in FSD and pain.
  • 1) The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
  • 2) The Pain and Headache Clinic, The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
  • 3) Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
 
Pain is a common symptom in functional somatic disorders (FSDs). Most of the conditions included in the ICD-11 under the diagnosis of primary pain may thus as well be diagnosed as FSD.
 
The Pain Clinic at Arhus University Hospital was established in 2014 as a partnership between the Department of Neurology and The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics.
 
The Pain Clinic has two treatment tracks: one for patients with FSD and one for patients with neuropathic pain.
 
After triage, the patients are referred to a clinical examination. The diagnostic interview includes a meticulous review of their medical records and electronic questionaries' completed by the patients prior to the appointment. If relevant, a physical examination, blood screening and/or referral to scanning are included. Medical conferences are held regularly to present and discuss the patient's diagnosis and treatment plan. If the diagnosis single-organ musculoskeletal FSD is established, the patient will be offered treatment such as a brief psychoeducational intervention, medical treatment (e.g., low-dose antidepressant), graded exercise program, and extensive psychotherapy in either an individual- or group-based format. Patients with FSD multisystemic type can be referred to The Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics.
 
In this workshop, we will present the organizational structure of the pain clinic and how we diagnose and treat patients with FSD/primary pain in a multidisciplinary setting. Furthermore, the challenges in using FSD diagnoses instead of or in combination with pain disorder diagnoses will be addressed as well as patients' reactions to their diagnoses and the resulting influence on illness beliefs and adherence to treatment.
 
The workshop will be interactive, with time for questions, reflections and discussions. You will learn how do diagnose and treat patients with FSD/primary pain.

Important dates


zone: GMT + 2
  • Abstract submission start
    24.10.2022
  • Abstract submission final end
    31.01.2023
  • Early Bird Registration
    31.03.2023
  • Young Investigator Award Application
    09.03.2023
  • The EAPM Conference Award Application 
    31.03.2023
  • Late Posters submission
    From May 1st to May 15th

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