BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR BEHAVIOURAL AND COGNITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPIES
Belfast
The Waterfront Conference Centre
15th-17th June 2016
44th Annual Conference
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
http://www.babcpconference.com/programme/keynotes_2016.htm
Trudie Chalder, King’s College London
Chronic fatigue syndrome: the trials and tribulations of outcome studies
Fatigue is best viewed on a continuum with fatigue as a symptom at one end of the spectrum and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) associated with profound disability at the other. Up to 75% of people with CFS also have a mood disorder. Over about 25 years worth of research trial findings show that both cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and graded exercise therapy (GET) are moderately effective treatments for CFS that are not associated with harm. In primary care briefer interventions for fatigue have been shown to be efficacious. Self -help books are available. The aim of this lecture is to describe the overlap between fatigue and emotion, the evidence for CBT and GET, the nature of the interventions and how they work according to recent meditational analyses and long term follow ups.