This course is for non-clinically qualified staff (e.g. assistant psychologists, dementia support workers) supporting people with dementia and their families, or qualified psychologists/service managers who want training to set up, deliver or oversee DREAMS: START delivery in their service/organisation.

DREAMS: START is a six-session intervention developed to help people with dementia with sleep problems and reduce the impact on them and their family. DREAMS: START is the first safe and effective treatment for sleep disturbance in dementia; it improves sleep in the short (after 8 months) and long term (after 2 years) for people with dementia and also improves family carers sleep and is cost-effective. It is manualised and uses strategies adapted for each person like increasing light, activity, comfort, routine and relaxation. People without clinical training deliver DREAMS: START individually to family carers.

This course includes:

2x half-day training sessions, including 8 hours of training delivered by the UCL clinical team on September 22nd and 29th

1x full day sign off and accreditation session delivered on October 5th.

+ course and delivery materials

Note: Staff intending to deliver DREAMS: START sessions are advised to sign up to the entire course (training + accreditation sessions). Senior qualified staff may wish to join the training sessions only

Abstract

This course covers the fundamental developments in Mendelian randomization and gives practical explanations about how to apply MR to applied research questions. This in person course will cover: one-sample, two-sample, pleiotropy robust methods, within family and drug target MR. Each method will be explained with applied examples, along with the recommended sensitivity analyses, validation, and specification tests to assess the plausibility of MR analysis. The course provides pre-readings and recorded lectures and aims to get students up to speed on how to undertake and publish high-quality Mendelian randomization studies. 

Abstract

A wide range of disciplines, including epidemiology, psychiatry, and the biomedical sciences, increasingly use genetic and molecular data to study the determinants of health and disease. Making valid inferences from these data is challenging, requiring careful attention to study design, data quality, population structure, and interpretation. Molecular epidemiology provides a framework for integrating genomic and molecular measurements into population-based research to address these challenges.

This course covers core concepts and methods in molecular epidemiology, with practical guidance on their application to real research questions. Topics include genotyping and sequencing data, quality control and imputation, genome-wide association studies, polygenic scores, heritability estimation, and functional annotation using eQTL and pQTL resources. Emphasis is placed on critical interpretation, reproducible workflows, and the limitations of current approaches.

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This course is for non-clinically qualified staff (e.g. assistant psychologists, dementia workers) supporting family carers of people with dementia, or qualified psychologists/service managers who want training to set up, deliver or oversee START delivery in their service/organisation.

STrAtegies for RelaTives (START) is an intervention for informal/unpaid carers of people with dementia:

-Aimed at reducing anxiety and depression

-Delivered in eight-sessions

-Which promotes strategies for coping with caring for a family member with dementia

-Carers gain personalised strategies 

-START facilitators are trained graduates, supervised by an experienced clinical psychologist

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