As part of the Behaviour Change Conference 2025, we are pleased to offer a choice of 4 full-day pre-conference workshops. These will take place on Tuesday 1 April 2025, from 09:30 – 16:00 with a break for lunch. Please select from the following workshops: 

• Applying the Behaviour Change Techniques Ontology: Improving methods for selecting and specifying behaviour change techniques
• Storying change: developing digital stories for health promotion
• Hands-on Workshop: Practical use of Generative AI for ethical health behaviour change approaches
• Designing Impactful health & social Interventions: Integrating behaviour change theory & creative co-design

Tea and coffee will be provided. Lunch is not included but there is a cafeteria on-site, and other options nearby.

As part of the Behaviour Change Conference 2025, we are pleased to offer a choice of 3 half-day pre-conference workshops. These will take place on Tuesday 1 April 2025, from 13:00 – 16:15. Please select from the following workshops: 

• Persuade & Inspire: The Art of Behaviour Change Campaign Creation
• Vaccine acceptance in the EU/EEA: supporting diagnosis and intervention development with the 5C model
• Participatory Research Methods to Uncover Norms & Develop Insights 

Tea and coffee will be provided. Lunch is not included but there is a cafeteria on-site, and other options nearby.  

The UCL Centre for Behaviour Change (CBC), in collaboration with the  NOVA National School of Public Health, is delighted to confirm its 9^th International Behaviour Conference.

The conference will take place in Lisbon, Portugal on 2nd & 3rd April 2025. Pre-conference workshops & networking will take place on 1st April, find out more on the CBC website.

Please note:

Low, middle income countries (LMIC) Discount: to be eligible, participants must work for an organisation that has its administrative offices based in an LMIC, or be employed by an organisation and live in an LMIC. This includes university staff and students from LMIC. LMIC List of Countries (Wellcome Trust)

For more information on the conference, please visit the CBC website: 

A key task in developing behaviour change interventions is to answer the question of who and what should we focus our intervention on in order to achieve our goal. Behaviours form parts of interacting systems that evolve over time, and the choice of behavioural and population targets can usefully be informed by modelling the causal influences in those systems: a process that can be described as behavioural systems mapping. This module takes participants through the principles of systems thinking, how they can be applied to behavioural systems through methods of behavioural systems mapping, and how to analyse and interpret behavioural systems maps. It equips participants with the knowledge and skills required to begin to create and use behavioural systems maps using freely available software. 

Facilitators include Dr Vivi Antonopoulou and Professor Robert West. The session will be delivered online from 10.00am to 4.00pm (UK time, GMT). The module is interactive and includes practical sessions in which participants can work together to familiarise themselves with both the principles and practice of creating behavioural systems maps.

Decision-making and motivation are key drivers of human behaviour. We make decisions all the time, from the everyday (What shall I eat for breakfast?) to the momentous (Shall I take my country to war?). Robert West, a founder of the PRIME Theory of motivation and the COM-B model of behaviour will provide participants with a new framework for understanding decision-making and guide participants step-by-step on a tour of human motivation and how it can be influenced through education, persuasion, reward, punishment, imitation, rules, environmental cues, emotional support and by training habits and self-regulation skills. The module will be interactive and include plenty of time for discussion. It will use real-world examples of decisions, and provide a toolkit for analysing these and wider motivations with a view to influencing them.Facilitator: Professor Robert West

The session will run from 10am to 4pm with 30 minutes for lunch and a 15-minute break in the morning and afternoon.

Places are limited with the course capped at 24 participants and require a minimum number of 10 participants.

Daily session timings are from 10am GMT +1. For more information on the Advanced Modules, see here

Process Evaluation can be applied to better understand the outcomes of our behaviour change interventions by asking questions such as, which parts of our intervention were actually delivered, how were they received, and how and why did they have their impact on our target behaviour? This module will explore two key components of Process Evaluation; Fidelity and Mechanisms of Change. Participants will learn about what these components of Process Evaluation are, why they are worth investigating, and how the Behaviour Change Wheel toolbox can help us to do so.

Facilitators Dr Fabiana Lorencatto and Dr Danielle D’Lima will deliver an online full-day session from 10am-4pm. Key content will be broken down into digestible chunks with time allocated to apply the learning to learners’ own areas of interest, and gain support on how to prioritise different components of process evaluation based on available resources.

Learners will be sent some material to review ahead of the course.

For more information on the Advanced Modules, see here:

Participants will be introduced to the principles of behaviour change, and how these can be applied to practical problems. The course is aimed at anyone who is interested in behaviour change; from researchers, practitioners, intervention designers, managers, commissioners and policy makers. By completing this course you can expect to have:

• a greater understanding of the possibilities for applying behaviour change interventions to your own situation

• a practical framework for developing and implementing these interventions in your area of interest

This conference will present contributions on Francoise Dolto’s concept of The Castrations, Jean Berges’s model of Transitivism, Charles Melman’s New Psychic Economy and Marcel Czermack on the psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses.

Speakers Include Lionel Bailly, Sham Bailly, Marika Bergès-Bounes, Nicolas Dissez, and Helen Sheehan.

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Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST) Training with Dr Helen Donovan

Online course 

Wednesday 2^nd April 2025 2025, 07:00 – 14.00 BST

Online via Zoom

What is Cognitive Stimulation Therapy (CST)?

CST is an evidence-based group treatment for people with mild to moderate dementia. It involves 14 or more sessions of stimulating, themed activities, based around more complex principles including learning theory and person-centred care. CST can be extended into a longer-term treatment and can be offered to a range of clients including outpatients and people in residential or day care.

What does the training involve?

Training is interactive, involving group exercises, role-play, and video observation as well as some ‘teaching’. It is aimed to equip people with the knowledge required to deliver group CST in their work setting.

Who is the trainer?

The training is led by Dr Helen Donovan, a consultant clinical psychologist who has held senior positions since 2004 in the NHS in Bedfordshire & Luton including developing and providing services to people with dementia. She has been involved in CST and Maintenance CST research projects with UCL and has extensive experience of supervising and delivery of CST groups, and providing CST training in the UK and internationally.

Booking for the conference will close 12.00pm (GMT) on Friday 21 March 2025.

More information can be found: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychoanalysis/events/2025/mar/epistemic-trust-psychotherapy-first-decade

If you would like to request a link to view the recording, a certificate of attendance or payment receipt, please note that you will be able to do so using the conference feedback form after the conference.

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Supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing: Mental Health Support Teams. An update on research, policy and practice.

Children and young people’s mental health has long been an important element of the work of educational psychologists (EPs). Given continuing concerns and the societal changes we have experienced since the publication of the government’s green paper (2017), a focus on this topic is timely. The day will provide colleagues with updates regarding the government’s vision and policy for supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing, as well as reflecting on developments relating to Mental Health Support Teams (MHSTs). We will also hear about cutting edge research. The afternoon will focus on EP practice with examples of the role EPs have played in MHSTs and in developing tools to gather the views of children and young people.

If you are a trainee EP and wish to receive the Online Webinar link for free, please email your request to [email protected]