One Day Conference on clinical aspects of Functional Symptom Disorders: 11 September 2020

Sly Saint

Sly Saint

Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Optimising engagement and outcomes for patients with Functional/Medically Unexplained Symptoms

This conference will be delivered on Zoom.

This event has been approved by The British Psychological Society for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

Topics covered
  • Updates from the current evidence base
  • Service design and care pathways
  • Working across disciplines with schools
  • Case example and treatment challenges
  • Hear from world-experts on service organisation and policy for functional symptom disorders
  • International principle investigators report emerging evidence from the most recent clinical trials for functional symptom treatment in children and adults
  • Detailed, interactive skills-based workshop on ‘what to say’ and ‘what not to say’ to patients with functional symptoms – video sessions
  • Meet young people and their families – video and live discussions with the families that use our services for functional symptom disorders
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  • Professor Trudie Chalder, King's College London, London
  • Professor Mark Edwards, St George's, University of London, London
  • Dr Maria Hadji-Michael, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
  • Professor Mari Kangas, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  • Professor Isobel Heyman, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
  • Dr Eve McAllister, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London
  • Professor Judith Rosmalen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
  • Professor Michael Sharpe, Professor of Psychological Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford
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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/child-health/...ents-functionalmedically-unexplained-symptoms
 
Wording error / typo

Updates from the current evidence base
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Should read "Updates from the current eminence base"

Detailed, interactive skills-based workshop on ‘what to say’ and ‘what not to say’ to patients with functional symptoms
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Learn the technique of "paltering and how to specifically apply it in clinical practice."* How to do it well so the patient has no idea.

What is paltering?

See here: https://psychcentral.com/news/2016/12/30/when-is-the-truth-a-lie/114487.html

Paltering was honed and refined in the business world, picked up by politicians and now artfully crafted into a tool for BPS clinicians.
 
If anyone at my old institution is reading, I am disappointed.
This meeting is organised by UCL, or at least the Institute of Child Health Part and the department of psychiatry part of that. (Prof Heyman, whom I have never heard of).

This is the 2nd London International One Day Conference on clinical aspects of Functional Symptom Disorders- following the success of our 1st conference in 2018. In 2020 we want to focus especially on aspects of communication and engagement which contribute to successful outcomes, and on the current evidence-base for effective intervention.

Clearly the organisers either know something nobody else does or they are just making things up as usual.

When I was practicing we did not have marketing meetings like this designed to help people sell their services. We didn't;t even have meetings 'telling people what to do'. We had meetings where the knowledge base was presented and delegates were expected to use that in a rational way. There is something very distasteful about this sort of selling and telling approach.

I am surprised that Ross-Morris has not been given a slot. She is good at selling and telling.
 
Jonathan Edwards said:
I am surprised that Ross-Morris has not been given a slot. She is good at selling and telling.
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she could discuss her and Chalder's bogus claims that online CBT is "effective" for treating IBS hen their own data show that it is not. And the stock options and other financial interests she has in the company marketing this product with fraudulent claims of success. As I've said, a big bunch of academic grifters.
 
Of course I meant Moss-Morris. But you know that. I was thinking of her video on Body Psychotherapy.
I wonder if they are worried that knowing 'what to say' and 'what not to say' we can now make them all redundant and have a robot that says:

"Really? Oh how awful!'
'You poor soul'
"You should say NO to that.'
and so on.
 
Re Moss-Morris
dave30th said:
she could discuss her and Chalder's bogus claims that online CBT is "effective" for treating IBS hen their own data show that it is not. And the stock options and other financial interests she has in the company marketing this product with fraudulent claims of success. As I've said, a big bunch of academic grifters.
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she is also editor of a journal:
Health Psychology Review @healthpsychrev
Health Psychology Review - An Official Journal of the European Health Psychology Society
@EHPS_society
-@ronamossmorris and @suzannecarrie, Editors

https://twitter.com/healthpsychrev?lang=en
 
She is the leading expert in the new movement for maximising your health while having MS. With our experience I see it as a short step to people with MS being told it is their lifestyle which is making them worse not their disease, but they feel that it is a way to get control, as well as a "cure" for a lot of their ill health.
 
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