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Working with long-term physical illness and medically unexplained symptoms: Help your patients reclaim their lives from illness, disability,  pain or fatigue 2025

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19Nov

Zoom

Timings 9.30am-4.00pm
Location Virtual event, Online
CPD Up to six CPD hours per day, subject to peer group approval
Standard rate£265
Working with long-term physical illness and medically unexplained symptoms: Help your patients reclaim their lives from illness, disability,  pain or fatigue 2025

Event Information

Patients with long-term conditions and medically unexplained physical symptoms present in a range of settings across all areas of medicine. This workshop will provide clinicians with specific assessment and management skills based upon the five areas? assessment CBT model to help the patient understand why they feel as they do, and improve how they feel.

After you have attended this course you should be able to:
  • Describe the range of illness responses and understand these using a cognitive behavioural framework
  • Help make sense of the patients current presentation – including how to assess complex presentations such as chronic fatigue, a range of neurological presentations,  heart, lung problems and pain
  • Discover an engaging language that helps introduce the impact of illness to patients in acceptable ways
  • Identify factors that worsen how the person feels, and choose realistic targets for change
  • Help patients reattribute the causes of their symptoms
  • Describe in detail a plan to increase activity levels in order to overcome avoidance and reduced activity in the face of symptoms
  • Identify a range of common unhelpful behaviours that worsen how the person feels
The workshop content covers key content from the Overcoming functional neurological symptoms book: a five areas approach which has been evaluated in a MRC-funded RCT published in the journal Neurology. 
NB: Delegates will receive a copy of the book they can copy for use with their patients or in personal teaching.

There is a maximum of 60 delegates on this course.

This course is not available on demand.


  • The conference will take place online using Zoom.
  • Participants will be able view a video of the speaker and alongside any slides.
  • Participants can also pose questions, where the programme allows, and some speakers may use polling or other interactive features.
All delegates will be sent a delegate pack approx 1 week in advance of the meeting.
 
NB there is a maximum of 40 delegates on this course.
 
This course will not be available to view OnDemand.

Chris Williams is Professor of Psychosocial Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. His main clinical and research interest is in the area of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and in particular in looking at ways of disseminating this approach more widely. He has developed written and computer-based self-help treatments for anxiety, depression and bulimia and is a well-known CBT researcher, trainer and teacher. He is a President-elect of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies - the lead body for CBT in the United Kingdom and also a past Governing Board member of the United Kingdom for Psychotherapy (UKCP).  He is Director of Glasgow Institute of Psychosocial Interventions (GIPSI) - which has a focus on training and research in evidence-based psychosocial interventions. He is also a Trustee of the charity Triumph over Phobia - a user-led self-help organisation addressing self-management of anxiety and Medical Advisor of Anxiety UK - the anxiety disorders charity.

This event is taking place online via Zoom. To take part you will need: 
  • Access to a reliable internet connection
  • A PC, laptop, tablet or phone
  • Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge browser or Zoom installed on your PC, laptop, tablet or phone 

This course will not be available to view OnDemand.

Please read our terms and conditions before making your booking.

For further information, please contact:

Email: Rukiyat.Babajide@rcpsych.ac.uk

Contact Name: Rukiyat Babajide

Contact number: 020 8618 4288

Event Location

Location: Virtual event, Online

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