Science & Research Symposium (SRS)

📅Saturday, 5 September📍Cork City Hall 🕒15:00 – 18:30

15:00 – 16:00: Introductory Keynote Lecture (45 min + 15 min Q&A)
Chair: Frank Röhricht (London)

• Steve Gillard (Professor of Mental Health Care, City St. George’s University of London): Mixed-method paradigms in contemporary Psychotherapy Research – matching subjectivity, experience and embodiment with evidence based requirements

16.00 – 17.00: Body Psychotherapy Research in Action: Integrating embodiment (60 min)
Chairs: Kalina Raycheva (Sofia) and Courtenay Young (Edinburgh)

• Courtenay Young: Introducing the new case study collection (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Christina Bogdanova: A case series study of a body psychotherapy group for clients with early relational trauma (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Frank Röhricht: The COBOLT study – manualised group Body Psychotherapy for patients with complex PTSD (15 min + 5 min Q&A)

17.00: Break (30 min)

17.30 – 18.30: Research & Practice in Body Psychotherapy (60 min)
Chair: Biljana Jokić (Belgrade)

• Wolf Mehling (Professor, University of California): The MAIA Model in Practice: Utilising Outcome Measures in Body Psychotherapy (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Yaniv Gafner (PhD researcher, Haifa University): Insights from Interviews with Body Psychotherapists (15 min + 5 min Q&A)
• Aaron Freedman (USABP) & Biljana Jokić (EABP SRC): Possible collaboration between the EABP and USABP in the field of science and research (10 min + 10 min discussion with the audience)