In the field of experimental psychopathology, clinical trials are useful to investigate causality, treatment options, and other clinical phenomena. Despite its common use and its position in the field as being “the golden standard”, RCT’s suffer important drawbacks and ethical challenges. For instance, for some treatments or phenomena, running a (randomized) clinical trial is simply not feasible. Therefore, alternative designs (e.g., N=1, repeated single case) have gained popularity in recent years. Such designs allow answering similar questions as randomized controlled trials and allow a more process-pure analysis of the therapeutic process or phenomenon under study. During the symposium, expert speakers will focus on the benefits, pitfalls, ethics of common clinical trials and discuss alternatives like N=1 and ecological studies.
Date
May 24-25, 2018
Location
Kapellerput, Heeze, The Netherlands
www.kapellerput.nl
Organization
Marlies Brouwer MSc (UU), Marieke Dewitte (UM), Danielle Remmerswaal (EUR)
Thursday May 24th
10.30 – 11.00 Welcome + Coffee/Tea
11.00 – 12.30 Claudi Bockting – General introduction to clinical trials,
examples of RCT + Discussion with PhD-students
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Lotte Lemmens – RCT: good practice, pitfalls and example
14.30 – 15.30 Fritz Renner – Alternative designs, repeated single case
15.30 – 15.45 Short break -Coffee & Tea
15.45 – 16.10 PhD presentation Sara Scheveneels – Modeling exposure treatment in the laboratory: What’s wrong with fear extinction?
16.10 – 16.35 PhD presentation Marlies Brouwer – Antidepressant medication and psychological interventions for common mental disorders during pregnancy
16.35 – 17.30 Practical assignment
17.30 – 19.00 Drinks
19.00 – late Dinner
Friday May 25th
09.00 – 10.00 Katharina Meyerbroker – ?
10.00 – 11.00 Frenk Peeters – alternative designs, ESM, EMA
11.00 – 11.15 Short break – Coffee & Tea
11.15 – 11.40 PhD presentation Hasse de Meyer – Remediating Deficits in Reinforcement Learning in ADHD by Stretching the Ratios.
11.40 – 12.05 PhD presentation Wen Si – The Effectiveness of Cognitive Bias Modification on Smoking Cessation
12.05 – 12.30 Practical assignment
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Katharina Meyerbröker
14.30 – 15.30 Pitching the practical assignment with group discussion