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Jessica Davies is a BABCP accredited practitioner, supervisor and trainer. She qualified as a CBT therapist in 2013 from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, and has since worked in NHSTT, student services and private practice. She is currently Portfolio Co-Director for the Masters in Clinical Associate in Psychology Degree Apprenticeship and CBT Lead for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology, both at the University of Exeter. In addition, she works as a Research Therapist for the Accept Clinic at the Mood Disorders Centre, and is an Associate Editor of the BABCP Journal Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. Paul Salkovskis is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford. From April 2018 he has been Director of the Oxford Centre for Psychological Health, the Oxford Institute for Clinical Psychology Training and Research and The Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre, at the University of Oxford and Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. He is President BABCP and Editor in Chief of the BABCP Journal Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and an Honorary Fellow of the Association. Professor Ken Laidlaw, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist with world-leading expertise in the psychology of ageing, cognitive behavioural therapy for older people and attitudes to ageing. He is Emeritus Professor in Psychology at the University of Exeter and part-time Consultant Clinical Psychologist with NHS Highland in Scotland. In 2025 he was made an honorary Fellow of the BABCP in recognition of outstanding contribution to the development of CBT in the UK. Ken is widely published in peer-reviewed academic journals and is the author and co-author of a number of the influential books on CBT with Older People, emotional disorders in late life and clinical geropsychology. He has worked as a clinical psychologist with older people in the NHS both in England and Scotland for more than three decades and in clinical psychology training since the late 1990s, leading two different Doctoral Training Programmes in Clinical Psychology. He has been responsible for developing manuals for various clinical trials and led the development of a cross-cultural Attitudes to Ageing Questionnaire (AAQ), which was trialed in no fewer than 20 countries across the world.