Date: One-day course, 16 March 2012 at 9.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: University of Wales, Newport, Caerleon Campus
Recently there has been an increasing interest in mental imagery in clinical practice, but clinicians remain unsure of how to work with it in cognitive therapy. This workshop is designed to show that there are various types of images, appraised in a variety of ways, triggering differing responses. It will highlight how imagery can function in several ways to maintain psychological problems.
The Workshop
This workshop will explore how to use micro-formulation of imagery to guide our thinking in treatment. Arising from these principles, the workshop will introduce and demonstrate how interventions targeting imagery can be used across a range of client presentations to reduce intrusive imagery, including distorted images of the past, present or future; intrusive memories; metaphorical images and dreams. Underlying theory will be discussed and there will be an experiential aspect to the day.
Participants should leave the workshop with a clearer picture of how to understand imagery from a clinical and theoretical perspective, how to formulate problems in which imagery plays a role, and how to intervene to assist emotional processing, and transform or remove various types of disturbing imagery.
Dr Ann Hackmann worked with David Clark’s and Anke Ehlers’ research group from 1986-2007, and has worked on treatment trials of cognitive therapy of anxiety disorders. The group has studied the treatment of panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, health anxiety and PTSD, in London and Oxford. Ann has also worked on projects on intrusive images and memories in depression with Chris Brewin, and in social phobia with Jen Wild and David Clark. She worked with Mark Williams on MBCT from 2007-2010.
Ann is one of the editors of the Oxford Guide to Behavioural Experiments in Cognitive Therapy, and a co-author of Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety disorders: Mastering Clinical Challenges. Her special interest is in imagery, and she has taught and written extensively on the subject. She has recently published the Oxford Guide to Imagery in Cognitive Therapy, with James Bennett-Levy and Emily Holmes.
Price: £78 per person (£48 per person for current University of Wales, Newport students)
To book your place, please fill in the 
application form and return by email to: conferencentre@newport.ac.uk