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10th
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS and
15th
NATIONAL of CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY MONASTERIO
SAN MARTÍN PINARIO
SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA (SPAIN) 16-19 NOVEMBER, 2017 |
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Paulo PP Machado Professor of Clinical Psychology, President of the School of Psychology, University of Minho PORTUGAL |
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Paulo P.P. Machado is
Professor of Clinical Psychology and the
President of the School of Psychology at the
University of Minho in Portugal. He received
his Ph.D. from the University of California,
Santa Barbara in 1993, and subsequently served
on the faculties of University of Porto and
the University of Minho. He has been
Invited Professor at the University of
Granada, Huelva and Santiago (Spain), Federal
de Pernanbuco and Católica de Pelotas
(Brazil); and Simon Fraser University
(Canada).
His academic career has been devoted to studying the effectiveness of psychotherapy, refinement of methodologies in outcome treatment monitoring in mental health, and the development of tailored intervention and prevention program for eating disorders and obesity. His current research aims at developing (1) models to identify environmental, and psychosocial factors that are associated with treatment response; and the course of recovery; (2) ways of tailoring psychological interventions to the individual needs (e.g., stepped care approach); and, (3) strategies that go beyond the initial level of treatment and focus on post treatment care. Dr Machado is the President of the Society for Psychotherapy, and was Editor of the Journal Psychotherapy Research. He is Fellow of the Academy for Eating Disorders, Past-President of the Eating Disorder Research Society, and President of the Portuguese Society for the Study of Eating Disorders. CONFERENCE ABSTRACT New transdiagnostic and
integrative approaches to the treatment of
eating disorders
Eating Disorders are serious
conditions and an important source of
psychiatric morbidity in young women.
Psychological interventions and research for
eating disorders tend to be complex. Cognitive
behavioural treatment (CBT) is considered to be
the first line treatment for bulimia nervosa,
but outcomes are frequently modest on average.
Given the frequency and severity of eating
disorders, these levels of outcomes are
disconcerting. Adding to the current state of
research is evidence that practicing clinicians
do not tend to use evidence-based
psychotherapies consistently for eating
disorders. This is not only a problem of
dissemination and uptake of research, but also
one of knowledge translation. In this address,
the author will focus on recent effort to expand
the original CBT model to increase the efficacy
of eating disorders treatment.
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