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ASTSS is proud to announce the 2012 ACOTS
The 17th Australian Conference On Traumatic Stress
Trauma and Disaster: Complexity, Diversity and Recovery
Submission dates and 2012 issue themes for:
Stress Points
The ASTSS journal
 Click here to download ACOTS 2012 brochure and registration form
The 2012 ACOTS Conference is a collaboration between the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS) and the Australian Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health (ACPMH). The conference will be held on September 6th – 8th in Perth, Australia at the Parmelia Hilton. The 2012 conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.
Confirmed Speakers include:
Professor Doug Zatzick - Public health approaches to the development and implementation of trauma focused interventions in post-disaster contexts.
Douglas Zatzick, MD is currently Professor and Associate Vice Chair for Health Services in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Over the past two decades his research has focused on clinical epidemiologic, functional outcome, and early intervention studies of PTSD
and related co-morbid conditions in adults and youth, across civilian and veteran trauma exposed patient populations. He has participated in disaster relief efforts and early intervention efforts in the Western Hemisphere after the January 2010 Haiti earthquake, post Hurricane Katrina, and in the wake of multiple United States earthquakes over the past two decades. He is Medical Director of the University of Washington’s Harborview Level I Trauma Center Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Service, and in this capacity provides front-line clinical services to diverse acutely injured trauma survivors.
Professor Michael Scheeringa - Post-traumatic stress in very young children: Recognition, treatment and post-disaster challenges.
Michael S. Scheeringa, M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Section of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA. He has authored numerous scientific papers and book chapters on PTSD in young children based on his work on scientific studies over the last 15 years.
He has participated in research around attachment, parenting,
parent-child relationship difficulties, diagnostic assessment of children, neurobiological correlates of psychiatric disorders, outcome prediction, and development of protocol-driven therapies. His research on PTSD in young children after Huricane Katerina has been widely cited.
Professor Pat Dudgeon - Indigenous people and trauma.
Pat Dudgeon is acknowledged as the first identified indigenous psychologist in Australia, and has over 20 years of experience in the area of indigenous people and psychology. Pat was instrumental in developing the Guidelines for the Provision of Psychological Services for and the conduct of Psychological Research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People of Australia, which were adopted by the APS in 1996.
Pat was appointed as Head of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University in 1990 and for the next 17 years led the organization through significant growth and change to become a national leader and important provider of Indigenous higher education. Pat is actively involved with the Aboriginal community and has a commitment to social justice. She has participated in numerous community service activities of significance. Pat was a member of the Parole Board of WesternAustralia for several years, and was a psychologist in the defence forces. She has undertaken many projects and has publications in the areas of psychology, education and women's issues. Currently, she is a private consultant and an adjunct associate professor at the University of Western Australia.
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The Journal of ASTSS "Australasian Stress Points" is published quarterly in electronic format. We accept papers for the ejournal submitted through the Stress Points submission portal on the following submission dates:
June 2012 Issue - March 11th to May 11th;
September 2012 Issue - July 11th to August 11th;
December 2012 Issue - October 11th to November 11th; and
March 2013 Issue - January 11th to February 11th.
Each Issue of "Australasian Stress Points" is themed and papers on that theme are encouraged. However, papers outside of the Issue theme are welcomed and will be considered. The themes for the next four issues:
June 2012 Issue - Mental Health Issues and Trauma;
September 2012 Issue - Trauma, Armed Forces & Emergency Services;
December 2012 Issue - Trauma and the Indigenous Experience; and
March 2013 Issue - New Programs and Projects in Trauma.
CLICK HERE for the Stress Points Submission Portal
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