Landspitali - University Hospital

Child and adolescent psychiatry department conferences

About the conferences

Ráðstefnur eftir árum

Shannon Bennett, Ph.D. is licensed clinical psychologist with expertise in cognitive behavioral interventions for children, adolescents, young adults, parents, and families suffering from Anxiety Disorders, Tic Disorders, OCD and other related conditions. Her clinical practice includes individual therapy, group therapy, parent/child work, and parent training for youth, young adults, and their families using state of the art, research-supported psychotherapy interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

Dr. Bennett is an Assistant Professor of Psychology in Clinical Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine, and is the Director of Psychology for the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Bennett serves as the Clinical Director of the New York Presbyterian Hospital Youth Anxiety Center for Weill Cornell, whose mission is to advance clinical care, research and education for the identification and treatment of anxiety disorders in adolescents and young adults. Dr. Bennett is also the Director of the Weill Cornell Medicine Center of Excellence for Tourette Syndrome, a designation awarded to WCM by the Tourette Association of America for excellence in the clinical care, research, and support of individuals with Tourette Syndrome and related conditions.

Dr. Bennett’s primary research interests include the development, evaluation, and dissemination of cognitive behavioral treatments for anxiety disorders and tic disorders, testing the efficacy of novel treatments for these disorders, and better understanding mechanisms involved in symptom change. Dr. Bennett currently oversees multiple research studies in the areas of anxiety and tic disorder treatment, and has written of several papers, book chapters, and treatment manuals on these topics. She lectures locally, nationally and internationally on topics related to child, adolescent, young adult and family mental health.

Prior to joining the Faculty at Weill Cornell in 2010, Dr. Bennett was a Co-Founder and Associate Director of the Pediatric Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Intensive Treatment Program at UCLA and contributed to several cognitive-behavioral treatment research programs at the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University. Dr. Bennett also led a multi-disciplinary research team focused on the psychosocial needs of women who experience perinatal loss, and earned a National Research Service Award from NIMH for this research effort.

Dr. Bennett has also been honored with a Career Development Leadership Award from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. Dr. Bennett is a member of the International Task Force of the Canadian Institute for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and serves on the Medical Advisory Board for the Tourette Association of America

David Goldston, bio

David Goldston, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Goldston has had research funding for longitudinal, treatment development, implementation, and evaluation research, primarily in the areas of suicidal behaviors and/or alcohol and substance use disorders.

He has been Principal Investigator for three prospective naturalistic studies, including a recently completed 20+ year study focusing on the risk and course of suicidal thoughts and behavior from adolescence through adulthood. He also has been involved in several intervention development and adaptation projects, including projects focused on development or adaptation of brief interventions for (1) youth at risk for suicide in juvenile detention settings, (2) youth at acute risk for suicide in schools, (3) youth with co-occurring substance use problems and suicidal behavior, (4) adults with suicidal behavior and substance use problems in hospital settings, and (5) caregivers of youths at risk for suicide.

David Goldston also has contributed to the cross-site evaluation of the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Suicide Prevention Program, demonstrating that implementation of the program was associated with reduced suicide deaths, and reduced population base rates of suicide attempts. The UCLA-Duke Center for Trauma-Informed Suicide, Self-Harm, and Substance Abuse Prevention, for which Dr. Goldston was Co-Principal Investigator with Dr. Joan Asarnow at UCLA, conducted 30 full clinical trainings for 2,134 providers and provided brief clinical trainings and presentations to approximately 10,000 individuals from 2016-2021.

Dagskrá

Svandís Svavarsdóttir, heilbrigðisráðherra, Ávarp
Haukur Örvar Pálmason, taugasálfræðingur, Einhverfa – áratugur á örskotsstund
Dr. Lucy Livingston, Compensation in Autism Spectrum Disorder - What is it and why does it matter
María Carmela Torrini, Margbreytileiki einhverfurófsins
Jarþrúður Þórhallsdóttir sjúkraþjálfari og einhverfuráðgjafi, Önnur skynjun; lykill að skilningi
Margrét Ósk Arnarsdóttir, Reynslusaga
Guðrún Þorsteinsdóttir sviðsstjóri og Emilía Guðmundsdóttir sálfræðingur, Hvað er framundan í greiningum hjá börnum og ungmennum á Íslandi
Magnús Kári Nordal, Reynslusaga
Ingibjörg Karlsdóttir félagsráðgjafi á BUGL, Rannsókn á árangri PEERS
Guðlaug Svala Kristjánsdóttir verkefnastjóri hjá Einhverfusamtökun, Draumsýn - staður fyrir rödd og reynslu einhverfra
Aðalfyrirlesari Dr Lucy Livingston (Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology, Cardiff University):
Title: Compensation in Autism Spectrum Disorder: What is it and why does it matter?

Abstract: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is heterogenous in many ways, including developmental trajectory. Whilst many autistic people continue to demonstrate substantial social difficulties across the lifespan, a subset show improved social skills. It is currently unclear whether these improvements in social skills are necessarily underpinned by improvements in underlying social cognition (e.g., understanding others’ minds or Theory of Mind). One potential explanation is that some autistic people can ‘compensate’ for their underlying difficulties (e.g., in Theory of Mind), thus demonstrating relatively few autistic behaviours, despite continued core cognitive difficulties.
The process of compensation may have an array of benefits for autistic people, for example, helping individuals to gain and maintain relationships and employment. However, it is also possible that compensation has negative impacts, because individuals do not always appearautistic in behaviour and thus do not receive appropriate support and accommodations. For example, it may contribute to additional mental health difficulties and a late diagnosis of ASD. Overall, the topic of compensation has received surprisingly little theoretical and empirical attention. In this talk, I will present the compensation framework, give an overview of my research investigating the mechanisms of compensation in ASD and discuss the implications of the phenomenon of compensation for clinical practice.

Biography: Lucy completed her BSc in Psychology at Durham University. She was then awarded MRC funding for a 1+3 MSc + PhD programme at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre (King’s College London). Lucy’s PhD, supervised by Professor Francesca Happé, focused on understanding heterogeneity in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through the study of compensatory mechanisms. She also received additional MRC funding to carry out applied research with the National Autistic Society, with whom she has worked closely for many years. Lucy is now a Lecturer in Psychology at Cardiff University within the Wales Autism Research Centre, where she leads her own programme of research. She is also an active member of Autistica’s Study Group for furthering research into Physical Health and Ageing in Autism.
Her current research interests include developmental trajectories, late diagnosis and co-occurring mental health difficulties in ASD and other neurodevelopmental conditions. She is passionate about meaningfully involving autistic people in all stages of her research. Her work has been published in leading Psychology and Psychiatry journals. In 2020, she won the Neil O’Connor British Psychological Society Developmental Section prize for her work.

Plan

John T. Walkup, MD, Pritzker Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, Pediatric Anxiety Disorders (pdf)
John T. Walkup, MD Department of Psychiatry Lurie Children’s Hospital & Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, Treatment of Tic Disorders and Other Repetitive Behaviors (pdf)
Birna G. Ásbjörnsdóttir, Mataræði, þarmaflóra og geðheilbrigði barna og unglinga (pdf)
Ingibjörg Margrét Baldursdóttir, Geðhjúkrunarfræðingur á göngudeild BUGL og doktorsnemi við hjúkrunarfræðideild HÍ, Sálfélagsleg stuðningsmeðferð fyrir foreldra unglinga með ADHD á BUGL Forrannsókn (pdf)
Orri smárason, sálfræðingur BUGL, Íslensk staðfærsla og mat á próffræðilegum eiginleikum DSM-5 útgáfu K-SADS-PL greiningarviðtalsins (pdf)
Louise Hayes, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, Using contextual behaviour science to consider growth and development in humans (pdf)
Unnur Heba Steingrímsdóttir, geðhjúkrunarfr., EMDR þerapisti og handleiðari Vilborg G Guðnadóttir, geðhjúkrunar- og fjölskyldufræðingur, handleiðari Henný Hraunfjörð, hjúkrunarfræðingur, lýðheilsu- og fjölskyldufræðingur., Tengslamiðuð fjölskyldumeðferð (pdf)
Íris Ingvarsdóttir listmeðferðarfræðingu, Listmeðferð: Hvað er gagnlegt við myndræna nálgun í meðferð barna og unglinga? BUGL ráðstefnan 2020 (pdf)