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Accepted Abstracts
Presentations already through review. The list is added to as decisions are made, and the final submission round closes on 15 October 2026.
Abstracts below are published as the authors submitted them. Where a presenter has provided a biography or an outline, it appears in full rather than summarised.
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Workshop · In person
Dr Angelo Reynolds
Transformers Academy, LLC, United States
Presentation title: Trauma, Addiction, Mental Health and Recovery
Learning objectives
Participants completing this workshop will gain a working understanding of trauma, addiction and the treatment approaches that address them together; will leave with evidence-based resources for supporting recovery; and will be able to apply psychoeducational practice within their own organisational setting.
Abstract
Psychoeducation teaches people about their condition, the coping strategies available to them and the support systems around them. The research base is strong: it improves treatment adherence, reduces relapse rates by between 20% and 50% in severe illness, and gives families a role beyond waiting.
It is also effective specifically in trauma and addiction, where it normalises responses that patients often read as personal failure, reduces shame, and explains what trauma does to neurological and physiological functioning in terms a patient can use.
Results
Multiple workshops and seminars addressing substance use and mental health conditions have produced consistent results: participants report better understanding of their own symptoms and of the techniques that reduce relapse risk.
Presentation outline — TAMAR
TAMAR stands for Trauma, Addiction, Mental Health and Recovery. The session traces how adverse experience shapes later life and sets out routes toward recovery, with emphasis on recognising triggers and on strategies for regulating stress.
- Foundations — addiction, trauma and treatment modalities
- Physical and emotional abuse — psychological trauma, emotional regulation, physiological effects
- Boundaries and safety — trust, intimacy and effective communication
- Closing discussion of best practice
- Questions
Sources
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), 1990; National Institute of Health, 2026.
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Poster presentation · Virtual
Miss Jehyang Park
Presentation title: AI-Assisted Semantic Clustering of Coping Experiences in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations — A Secondary Qualitative Data Analysis
Abstract
Auditory verbal hallucinations are among the most distressing symptoms reported by people with schizophrenia, and are closely tied to functional impairment and to difficulty in recovery. A substantial qualitative literature describes how people cope with them, but the structure underlying those accounts has remained unclear.
Advances in natural language processing make it possible to analyse that literature systematically and to surface latent semantic structure across narratives that were collected separately. This study applied an AI-assisted clustering approach to coping experiences associated with auditory verbal hallucinations.
A secondary qualitative integration design was used. PRISMA-guided screening of 807 records yielded 23 eligible studies. Participant quotations were extracted into a single textual dataset, sentence embeddings were generated using Sentence-BERT, semantic similarity was calculated and agglomerative hierarchical clustering applied.
Five coping clusters emerged: embodied distress, self-concept formation, active coping, therapeutic control and social context. Together they show structured patterns within accounts that had previously appeared fragmented, and suggest that AI-assisted semantic analysis offers a workable method for integrating qualitative evidence and identifying latent patterns in patient experience — with implications for recovery-oriented, person-centred intervention.
Biography
Jehyang Park completed a master’s programme in the Department of Nursing at Dankook University, South Korea. She is a psychiatric nurse with three years of clinical experience at Yeolinseongae Hospital, and works on mental health nursing and auditory verbal hallucinations.
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Presentation · Under review
Miss Kristina Curott
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Liberty University, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States
Abstract and presentation details are published here once review is complete.