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AI-Therapy at the 7th World Congress of Behavioural and Cognitive Therapy

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We are very excited to have arrived in Lima, Peru for the conference. The scientific program is extremely rich, so my biggest problem is selecting which talks to attend. For every hour, there seems to be about 3 interesting talk to select from!

Here we are, the co-founders of AI-Therapy, Overcome social anxiety Dr Fjola Helgadottir and A./Prof Ross Menzies:

AI-Therapy at the World Congress of CBT in Lima Peru
AI-Therapy at the World Congress of CBT in Lima Peru

I have two talks coming up. For anyone who happens to be here, please come along and say hi. Here are the details:

  • Thursday 25th of July at 9-10:20. We will speak about the latest developments in AI-Therapy, in the symposium “Latest developments in online treatments”. There will be some of the world’s leading experts on Internet treatments of evidence based treatments on the panel. Venue: Maria Angola, Room: Las Campanas
  • Tuesday 23rd of July at 3:30-4:50. We will speak about how the Icelandic financial crisis simulated the origin of Obsessive Compulsive Problems. The discussion will be about general belief in magical thinking, such as the paranormal, horoscopes etc, and how these thinking patterns may influence people’s coping strategies. Venue: Estelar, Room: Arequipa

The next World Congress of CBT will be Melbourne, Australia in 2016, and Ross is a convenor. It is amazing how much work goes into planning these conferences. Even though it is still 3 years away, Ross has been busy planning the 2016 conference for a while now.

First up is the opening ceremony with Aaron Beck, the father of CBT!

 

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Fjola  Helgadottir, PhD, MClinPsych, is a clinical psychologist, a senior research clinician at the University of Oxford, and is a co-creator of AI-Therapy.com, an online CBT treatment program for overcoming social anxiety

Our new design and the CBT World congress in Lima, Peru

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Website Design

As you may have already noticed, we’ve given the AI-Therapy website a facelift. There are a number of improvements, including easier navigation, more content, and higher quality video.  Please take a look, and let us know what you think!

 

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Logo

We also have a new logo, which was designed by the same person who helped us with the new website (Rob Hogg of Skinny Whippet):

 

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Conference Travel

We’re pretty excited to be going to the World Congress of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (WCBCT 2013) in Lima, Peru in July this year. This conference is held every three years, in various countries around the world. It provides an opportunity for researchers and clinicians to meet and discuss the “state of the art” in CBT.

I will be giving two talks at the conference:

  1. I was honoured to be invited to speak in a symposium with world’s leaders in online CBT (the other speakers are Gerhard Andersson and Per Carlbring from Sweden, Pim Cuijpers from Netherlands, and Nick Titov from Australia). The title of the symposium is The latest developments in internet-based treatments of common mental disorders. I will be speaking about some of my work at the University of Oxford, as well as the latest developments with AI-Therapy.
  2. My second talk is based on work I conducted with Ross Menzies of the University of Sydney and Mark Jones of the University of Queensland. The title is Superstitious behaviour in Iceland during and after the global financial crisis simulates the aetiology of obsessive-compulsive disorder.

 

We’re pretty busy these days, but there are exciting times ahead!

 

 

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Fjola  Helgadottir, PhD, MClinPsych, is a clinical psychologist, a senior research clinician at the University of Oxford, and is a co-creator of AI-Therapy.com, an online CBT treatment program for overcoming social anxiety