Scientific Programme Thursday 15th March 2012
08.00 – 09.45 Registration and Coffee
09.45 – 10.00 Welcome
Dr Paul Robinson, Chair, Scientific Programme Committee
Susan Ringwood, Chief Executive, Beat
10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Lecture
Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based
Treatments for Eating Disorders
Professor Terry Wilson, Rutger State University
of New Jersey
11.00 – 11.45 Coffee
11.45 – 12.45 Scientific Papers (Parallel Sessions)
Parallel Session 1: Aetiology
Chair: Dr Ciaran Newell, Consultant Nurse, Dorset
Healthcare University NHS Foundation Trust
11.45 – 12.00 Adolescent aesthetic athletes: a group at risk for eating pathology?
Van Durme, Kim; Goossens, L; Braet, C Ghent
University, Ghent, Belgium
12.00 – 12.15 The prevalence of eating disorders is higher among first
year students attending elite sport high schools than
ordinary high schools
Martinsen, Marianne1; Sundgot-Borgen, JSB21Oslo Sports
Trauma Research Center, Norwegian School of Sport
Sciences, Oslo, Norway; 2Department of Sports
Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo,
Norway
12.15 – 12.30 Motives for Wishing to Be Thinner and Weight-control
Practices in 7- to 18-Year-Old Swedish
Girls
Westerberg-Jacobson, Josefin1; Edlund, B.21University
of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden; 2Department of Public
Health and Caring Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden
12.30 – 12.45 The effect of idealized media images on body
dissatisfaction among women in the United Arab
Emirates
Tahboub-Schulte, S J American University of Sharjah,
Sharjah, U.A.E
Parallel Session 2: Prevention
Chair: Professor Ulrike Schmidt, Professor of Eating
Disorders, King’s College London
11.45 – 12.00 Working with teachers and students to develop an eating
disorders prevention and support programme
Knightsmith, Jodi; Schmidt, U; Treasure, J Institute of
Psychiatry, London, UK
12.00 – 12.15 The Succeed Body Image Programme: Peer-led,
dissonance-based eating disorders prevention in the
United Kingdom
Diedrichs, Phillippa; Halliwell, E; Paraskeva, N; New, A
University of the West of England, Bristol, UK
12.15 – 12.30 Effectiveness of a Dissonance Eating Disorder Prevention
Program among 12 and 13 year old British Girls
Halliwell, Emma1; Diedrichs, P21University of the West
of England, Bristol, UK; 2Centre for Appearance
Research, University of the West of England, Bristol,
UK
12.30 – 12.45 Attachment as predictor of eating pathology and weight
gain in preadolescent boys and girls
Goossens, Lien1; Braet, C1; Van Durme, K1; Decaluwé,
V2; Bosmans, G3
1Ghent University, Gent, Belgium; 2Lessius University
College, Antwerp, Belgium;
3Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium
Parallell Session 3: Treatment
Chair: TBC
11.45 – 12.00 Early discharge at the expense of readmission: A five
year review of admissions in an Eating Disorder Unit
Aref-Adib, Golnar; Stone, V; Kyrtatos, P; Johnson-
Sabine , E TBA, TBA, UK
12.00 – 12.15 Guidelines for the inpatient treatment of adults with
eating disorders
Ward, Warren; Painter, E Royal Brisbane & Women's
Hospital, Brisbane, Australia
12.15 – 12.30 Combining group and individual interventions to
encourage positive body awareness and decrease
intense body image distress during treatment
Low, M; Chapman, Karen; Wagstaff, L; Hart, P; Hart,
P; Titley, M; Titley, M
Haldon Eating Disorders Service, Exeter, UK
12.30 – 12.45 Compassionate mind training: A pilot evaluation with an
eating disorders self-help group
Gale, C; Gilbert, P Derbyshire Healthcare NHS
Foundation Trust, Derby, UK
Parallel Session 4: Clinical features
Chair: Dr Paul Robinson, Eating Disorders Psychiatrist,
St Ann’s Hospital, London
11.45 – 12.00 Severe and Enduring Eating Disorders (SEED): A pilot
qualitative study of SEED in patients with Anorexia
Nervosa
Kukucska, R1; Robinson, P H1; Leavey, G2
Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust,
London, UK; 2Compass, Belfast, UK
12.00 – 12.15 Can restrained eating predict depression in young
women?
Kontic , Olga
Institute of Psychiatry, University of Belgrade,
Belgrade, Serbia
12.15 – 12.30 The role of set shifting and central coherence in
differentiating bingeing/purging and restrictive eating
disorder subtypes
Van Autreve, S1; De Baene, W2; Vervaet, M1
1Ghent University, Department of Psychiatry and
Medical Psychology, Ghent, Belgium; 2Ghent
University, Department of Experimental Psychology,
Ghent, Belgium
12.30 – 12.45 Co-occurrence of disordered eating and alcohol misuse
in young adults in higher education
Sherlock, R C; Bewick, B M; Hill, A J
Leeds University School of Medicine, Leeds,
UK
Parallel Session 5: Experience of eating disorders
Chair: Susan Ringwood, Chief Executive, Beat
11.45 – 12.00 The Concept of Self in Pro-Ana Social Networking
Sites
Figueras, Carolina University of Barcelona, Barcelona,
Spain
12.00 – 12.15 Users’ experience of pro-ana web sites: An
interpretative phenomenological analysis
Edwards, Stephen; Telford, E. H. Swansea University,
Swansea, Wales
12.15 – 12.30 The wellbeing of carers of people with severe and
enduring eating disorders (SEED).
Linacre, Stephen1; Hill, A.J.1; Heywood-Everett, S2
1University of Leeds, Leeds, UK; 2Bradford District
Care NHS Trust, Bradford,
UK
12.30 – 12.45 The Impact of Childrens’ Eating Disorders on Parents and
Families
Satir, Dana; Solomon, M; Hagman, J
Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, US
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch, Exhibition & Poster
viewing
14.00 – 15.30 Plenary Session
Development and Neuroscience
Chair: Dr Rachel Bryant-Waugh, Consultant Clinical
Psychologist and Joint Head of Feeding and
Eating Disorders Service, Great Ormond Street
Hospital NHS Trust
Discussant: Dr Kate Tchanturia, Institute of Psychiatry,
Kings College London
Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore,
University College London, UK
The Adolescent Brain: Implications for Understanding
Eating Disorders
Dr Angela Favaro, University of Padua, Italy
Are impairments in neurodevelopment implicated in
the pathogenesis of eating disorders? : An update.
Dr Ian Frampton, University of Exeter and University of
Oslo
Thoughts, feelings and behaviours: Viewing eating
disorders through the lens of developmental
neuropsychology.
15.30 – 16.00 Tea
16.00 – 17.30 Workshops and Masterclasses, Session One
1.1 Through the looking glass: Using mirror
exposure to treat body image disturbance as
part of cognitive behaviour therapy for eating
disorders
Professor Glenn Waller, Consultant Clinical
Psychologist, Vincent Square Eating Disorders
Service, Central and North West London NHS
Foundation Trust, and Institute of Psychiatry,
King’s College London
1.2 Working with trauma and eating disorders: A
cognitive behavioural approach
Dr Jane Evans
1.3 Medical aspects of treatment of Anorexia Nervosa. The management of physical health risk factors on acute medical wards.
Masterclasss
Dr Sylvia Dahabra, Consultant Psychiatrist,
Richardson Eating Disorders Service,
Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS
Foundation Trust and
Dr Nick Thompson, Consultant Gastroenterologist Chair, Northern Nutrition Network Lead, The North East Home Parenteral Nutrition, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
1.4 Family Interventions Masterclass 1
Professor Ivan Eisler, Professor of Family
Psychology and Family Therapy and Head of
Section of Family Therapy at the Institute of
Psychiatry, Kings College, London
1.5 Eating Disorders in Children Masterclass 1
Dr Dasha Nicolls, Consultant Child and Adolescent
Psychiatrist and Joint Head of the Feeding and
Eating Disorders service (FEDS) at Great Ormond
Street Hospital
17.30 Conference Drinks Reception and Poster Viewing