WORLD TAPERING DAY
Counting down to 4, 5, 6 NOVEMBER, 2022
World Tapering Day is an online event that focuses on the prescribing, use and tapering of antidepressants, benzodiazepines, sleeping medication, antipsychotics, anti-epileptic drugs, mood stabilisers and opioids painkillers: current practice and how it could be improved.
Due to the diversity of the subjects that we want to address, we have decided to expand the programme to three days: Friday, Saturday and Sunday 4, 5 and 6 November.
The webinars are free to join, but you need to register in advance.
We will also be live streaming; which webinars, we'll announce later.
All webinars can be watched back on the
World Tapering Day videochannel
FRIDAY 4 November: Personal experience
14.00 GMT+1
"Who is actually crazy? The client, psychiatry or society?"
Author Ewout Kattouw
(Dutch, English subtitles)
16.00 GMT+1
Being a prescriber and experiencing prescribed harm
Dr. Mark Horowitz and dr. Louise Bundock
(Dutch, English subtitles)
SATURDAY, 5 November: Problems and ways forward
12.00 GMT+1
The gap between academic knowledge and knowledge from lived experience
Ewout Kattouw, Dr. Dick Bijl, Prof. Floortje Scheepers (Netherlands)
(Dutch, English subtitles)
14.00 GMT+1
Current tapering guidelines are potentially dangerous:
slow, hyperbolic tapering is safer
James Moore interviews Anders Sørensen (Denmark)
16.00 GMT+1
Paneldiscussion: Time for a Change
With Dr. Mark Horowitz and others: will be filled in later
19.00 GMT+1
Tapering opioids for chronic pain patients
Eglantyne Drenth Hoeksta, Dr. Nicholas Schräder
(Dutch, English subtitles)
SUNDAY, 6 November: Improving treatment, guidance,
information
14.00 GMT+1
New data on taperingstrips
Dr. Peter Groot and Prof. Jim van Os
(Dutch, English subtitles)
16.00 GMT+1
What helps and what hinders when psychologically supporting someone thinking about, or already withdrawing from psychiatric drugs?
Dr. Anne Guy (PsychD)
19.00 GMT+1
Guidance and tapering in a transcultural framework
Dr. Marcos Bicalho, Dr. Javier Romero Cuesta
(English, with Spanish and Portuguese subtitles)
About 50% of people trying to come off
psychiatric drugs
FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER
Open Dialogue
Tom Cant
Open Dialogue is a community-based, integrated way of helping people with psychiatric problems by engaging with families or a person’s social network. This happens from the very start of seeking help, within 24 hours of a crisis.
The treatment model originated in Finland in the 1980s and has led to impressive results around recovery, return to employment and reduced medication.
Afterwards, there will be a Q&A session and a discussion.
More specific information about the webinar will follow.
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WTD
Dutch with English subtitles
'Who is actually crazy?
The client, psychiatry or society?'
Ewout Kattouw
Author Ewout Kattouw spent 23 years under psychiatric care, receiving 22 different DSM diagnoses and 40 types of medication.
Ewout wrote a book about it. For WTD, he will read two short chapters from his book and then invite the audience to join him in a discussion about what goes on in psychiatry.
Ewout is chairman of the Stichting PILL (PILL Foundation), which advocates the responsible use of psychiatric medication.
Since 4 years, Ewout lives a life without medication. But he still carries the invalidating effects of the medication and recovery is painfully slow.
Being a prescriber and experiencing prescribed harm
Dr. Mark Horowitz and Dr. Louise Bundock
Coming at it from both sides of the desk, as both patients and doctors, junior psychiatrist Mark Horowitz and psychiatrist Louise Bundock will give their perspectives as people with experience of both worlds: being a prescriber and experiencing prescribed harm.
Afterwards, there will be a Q&A session and a discussion.
Dutch with English subtitles
Life with akathisia; coping with the side effects
Monique Timmermans
Monique Timmermans is founder and editor of Mad in the Netherlands. Monique explains what akathisia (acathesia) is and talks about living with this debilitating condition. She and explain how she herself handles it: not just in words but also by showing how she does this, in a beautiful area close to her home.
Why do many psychiatrists and GP's
refuse to acknowledge
SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER
Dutch with English subtitles
The gap between academic knowledge and knowledge from lived experience
Ewout Kattouw, Dr. Dick Bijl, Prof. Floortje Scheepers
Ewout Kattouw, author and experience expert of psychiatry/ psychiatric medication talks with Dr. Dick Bijl (former GP/ epidemiologist/ President International Society of Drug Bulletins) and Prof. Floortje Scheepers about tapering antidepressants.
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Why has knowledge from lived experience has been ignored and downplayed for so many years?
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How can academic knowledge and knowledge from lived experience be combined to provide better, practical guidance during tapering?
Afterwards, there will be a Q&A and a discussion.
The need for slow, hyperbolic tapering and a review
of current tapering guidelines for antidepressants
Anders Sørensen (psychologist, Denmark)
James Moore interviews Danish psychologist Anders Sørensen about insights he has gained from reviewing brain imaging studies and how he uses them to guide his own patients. His research proves the importance of slow, gradual withdrawal from antidepressants, benzo's, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants and opiates and the importance of hyperbolic withdrawal.
Anders Sørensen advocates revising the guidelines for tapering off psychoactive medication.
Panel discussion: Time for a change!
with Mark Horowitz and others
More information will be added soon.
Dutch, with English subtitles
Tapering opioids for chronic pain patients
Eglantyne Drenth Hoekstra and Dr. Nicholas Schräder
Nurse practitioner Eglantyne Drenth Hoekstra and Dr. Nicholas Schräder talk about the best way to help long term users of opioid pain medication who are suffering from severe chronic pain to taper off their medication.
Afterwards, there will be a Q&A and a discussion.
Especially for healthcare professionals
Why is there so little
acknowledgement
SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER
Dutch with English subtitles
New data on taperingstrips
Peter Groot and Jim van Os
Dr. Peter Groot explains how taperingstrips work and talks about their successful use in daily clinical practice.
Prof. Jim van Os presents new data on scientific proof and evidence of the effectiveness of taperingstrips and the method behind the strips: slow, hyperbolic tapering based on shared decision making and proper (self)monitoring during as well as after the taper.
Afterwards, there will be a Q&A and a discussion.
What helps and what hinders when psychologically supporting someone thinking about, or already withdrawing from psychiatric drugs?
Dr. Anne Guy (PsychD)
Webinar by Dr Anne Guy (psychotherapist), lead editor and co-author of the ‘Guidance for Psychological Therapists: Enabling conversations with clients taking or withdrawing from prescribed psychiatric drugs’, endorsed by the leading UK therapy organisations. The talk will introduce the guidance and look at the current evidence on how to support someone psychologically prepare for, go through and recover from withdrawing from psychiatric drugs.
Afterwards there will be a Q&A and a discussion, which all healthcare professionals and peer support workers are invited to join.
Healthcare professionals are invited to register!
Guidance and tapering in a transcultural framework
Dr. Marcos Bicalho and Dr. Javier Romero Cuesta
Psychiatrists Dr. Marcos Bicalho (Brazil) and Dr. Javier Romero Cuesta talk about the challenges for doctors and patients in creating awareness of tapering in different cultures. They will also discuss practical ways to offer better guidance and care.
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Deprescription and shared decision making
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Risks in deprescription
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Professional barriers: lack of time, training, fear of relapse, family pressure
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Explore fears, doubts that the patient may have
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Information
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Crisis plan
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Changes in the therapeutic relationship that deprescription can bring about
After the discussion, professionals are invited to join a live debate. There will be opportunity for exchanging information and networking, working together towards better guidance for patients who want to taper psychotropic medication.
This webinar offers live translations to/ from English, Spanish and Dutch.
Healthcare professionals are invited to register!
Many professionals are aware
of the need for change