ACOTS 2012: Conference Program

THURSDAY 6^th SEPTEMBER – PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

9.00 – 12.30

Workshop 1: Douglas Zatzick: Public health approaches to the development and implementation of trauma focused interventions in post-disaster context

9.00 – 12.30

Workshop 2: Michael Scheeringa: Cognitive-behavioural therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in very young children

9.00 – 12.30

Workshop 3: Chris Lee: What happens in EMDR: How do people heal?

12.30 – 1.30

LUNCH

1.30 – 5.00

Workshop 4: Grant Devilly: An introduction to conducting Prolonged Exposure for the treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

1.30 – 5.00

Workshop 5: Michael Scheeringa: Child and adolescent trauma (continued)

1.30 – 5.00

Workshop 6: Pat Dudgeon and Roz Walker: Cultural competence: An introduction to working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

4.00 – 6.00

REGISTRATION DESK OPEN

5.15 – 7.15

WELCOME DRINKS/RECEPTION

FRIDAY 7^th SEPTEMBER

8:00 – 8.45

REGISTRATION DESK OPEN

8.45 – 9.00

OPENING ADDRESS: Douglas Brewer

9.00 – 10.00

Keynote address: Douglas Zatzick: Public health approaches to the development and implementation of trauma focused interventions in post-disaster context

Chair: David Forbes

10.00 – 10.30

MORNING TEA

Symposium/session focus

Chair

Speakers

10.30 – 12.00

Symposium 1:

Jane Nursey

• Early intervention

-       Organisational implementation of Psychological First Aid (PFA): Training for managers and peers (Varker)

-       Crises, emergencies and disasters impacting the educational setting: teacher based psychological support for children and young people medium and long term (Nursey)

-       Skills for Psychological Recovery: Post disaster training program for Queensland practitioners (Howard)

-       Primum non Noncere (First, do no harm): considerations and application of a Psychological First id (PFA) approach for first responders, Queensland Fire, urban search and rescue (USAR) in Christchurch New Zealand (Dunton)

10.30 – 12.00

Symposium 2:

Andrea Phelps

• Service response to disasters

-       The delivery of effective public mental health services post disaster: An example from the 2009 Victorian bushfire crisis (McHugh)

-       Primary mental health services in the aftermath of the 2009 Victorian bushfires (Bassilios)

-       The Victorian Disaster Mental Health Workforce Capacity Survey- Examining the state of Victorias disaster preparedness (Preliminary findings) (Reifels)

-       Bereavement team comes a knockin- The Statewide Family Bereavement service (Medway)

10.30 – 12.00

Symposium 3:

Fiona Maccallum

• Grief across cultures

-       Attentional bias to emotional information in prolonged grief (Maccallum)

-       Prolonged grief in traumatised Cambodian refugees (Nickerson)

-       Cross cultural influences in the expression of grief in trauma exposed children (Dawson)

-       Prolonged grief disorder: Is exposure necessary (Bryant)

10.30 – 12.00

Biological tutorial 1

Kim Felmingham

Recent advances in the neurobiology of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

ASTSS Awards

12.30 – 1.15

LUNCH and POSTERS

1.15 – 2.00

Keynote Address: Pat Dudgeon: Hear our voices: Aboriginal trauma and resilience

Chair: Richard Bryant

2.00 – 2.45

Panel: Understanding Trauma through the Cultural Lens

Panel members: Pat Dudgeon, Angela Ebert, Kelleigh Ryan                                                                                                                                               Chair: Zac Steel

2.45 – 3.15

AFTERNOON TEA

Symposium/session focus

Chair

Speakers

3.15 – 4.45

Symposium 4

Tracey Varker

• Emergency Services

-       Reflecting on Qld Fire and Rescue Service FireCare employee assistance response to Qld Natural Disasters of 2010/2011 (Gonda)

-       Assessing mental health knowledge and attitudes in emergency service management pre and post-training (Shakespeare-Finch)

-       The richness of post-traumatic experiences in fire-fighters (Armstrong)

3.15 – 4.45

Symposium 5

Julie Anne Pooley

• Mediating factors

-       An exploration of the experience of caring for the mentally ill: The role of posttraumatic growth (Urquhart)

-       Self-reported stress and posttraumatic growth following the transition to motherhood: Investigating the role of social support and self-efficacy (Millar)

-       The role of personality in predicting mental health response to trauma: A longitudinal study of injury survivors (Fletcher)

-       The role of visual imagery in anger in PTSD: A new model for understanding anger in PTSD (McHugh)

3.15 – 4.45

Symposium 6

Meaghan O’Donnell

• Compensation

-       Mental injury from the Christchurch Earthquakes: improving the ACC response (Jansen)

-       The role of attributions of responsibility in recovery from road-trauma and workplace injury (Thompson)

• Cross-cultural intervention

-       The effectiveness and underlying mechanisms of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for the treatment of trauma in Timor-Leste (Schubert)

-       Trauma research as brief therapy (Hocking)

3.15 – 4.45

Clinical tutorial 1

Justin Kenardy

• Vanessa Cobham

Options, opportunities and obstacles: Lessons learned from the Queensland Floods about working with children, adolescents and families following a natural disaster

5.00 – 5.45

ASTSS AGM

7.00

CONFERENCE DINNER

SATURDAY 8^th SEPTEMBER

8.00 – 9.00

REGISTRATION DESK OPEN/ COFFEE

9.00 – 9.45

Keynote address: Michael Scheeringa: Post-traumatic stress in very young children: Recognition, treatment and post-disaster challenges

Chair: Justin Kenardy

9.45 – 10.30

Panel discussion: We know what to do after disasters

Panel members: Douglas Zatzick, Michael Scheeringa, Richard Bryant, Aaron Groves                                                                                                                                            Chair: David Forbes

10.30 – 11.00

MORNING TEA

Symposium/session focus

Chair

Speakers

11.00 – 12.30

Symposium 7

Wayne Penniall

• Treatment of PTSD in veterans

-       The VVCS Multisite randomised controlled effectiveness trial of cognitive processing therapy for combat-related PTSD (Forbes)

-       Roll-out of Cognitive Processing therapy across the VVCS service system (Couineau)

-       Promoting exposure therapy to improve outcomes for veterans with PTSD (Couineau)

-       Correlates of self-reported psychiatric illness and suicidal ideation in treatment-seeking Canadian peacekeeping and combat veterans with PTSD (Richardson)

11.00 – 12.30

Symposium 8

Miranda Van Hooff

• Mental health outcomes following disaster

-       Predicting Resilience and Recovery: Examining the trajectories of adaptive mental health outcomes following a major Australian bushfire (Cocks)

-       Contributing factors to psychological distress following the September 2010 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand (Crake)

-       A comparison of two flood events: The impact of wellbeing of contextual similarities and differences between the Brisbane 2011 flood and the Mackay 2008 flood (Dixon)

-       Working with parents and children post disaster (Nursey)

11.00 – 12.30

Symposium 9

Kim Felmingham

• Neuro/biological factors

-       The neural basis of intrusive memories (Battaglini)

-       Neural networks underlying attempted memory suppression in PTSD (Felmingham)

-       Neural measures of inhibitory control predict PTSD response to CBT (Allen)

-       Measures of resilience amongst resettled Iraqi refugees- Psychophysiogical responses to visual trauma stimuli (Slewa-Younan)

11.00 – 12.30

Clinical tutorial 2:

Zac Steel & Angela Ebert

• Zac Steel & Angela Ebert

Working with refugees

12.30-1.30

LUNCH and POSTERS

Day and time

Symposium/session focus

Chair

Speakers

1.30-3.00

Symposium 10

Tracey Varker

• Comorbidity/phenomenology

-       Psychological consequences in a vulnerable population following a critical incident (Huntley)

-       A systematic review of predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) for Road Traffic Crash Survivors (Heron-Delaney)

-       The Role of childhood trauma and appraisal of self-discrepancy in overgeneral memory retrieval (Ono)

-       Posttraumatic dreams: Issues in assessment and treatment (Phelps)

1.30-3.00

Symposium 11

Justin Kenardy

• Interpersonal violence

-       The legality and morality of killing in war- Just War theory and its implications for understanding the etiology of PTSD (Shaw)

-       Contribution of different types of violence to PTSD among South American urban youth (Kaminer)

-       Using photovoice as a tool for indentifying sources of safety for youth in contexts of community violence (Bawa)

-       Ethno-cultural aspects of the East Timorese experience of trauma (Butler)

1.30-3.00

Symposium 12

Alex Howard

• Practitioner Processes

-       Assisting Recovery: Just getting to the session is an achievement (Green)

-       Assisting Recovery: Knowing when we are done (Green)

-       Therapists experience of recovery and outcomes associated with trauma (Day)

1.30-3.00

Clinical tutorial 3:

Heather Bancroft

• Michael Tunnecliffe and Paul Scully

Maximising the Health & Wellbeing of the Emergency Services Workforce

3.00-3.30

AFTERNOON TEA

3.30-4.15

Future forum

Chair: Justin Kenardy

4.15-4.30

Closing Remarks: David Forbes

4.30-6.00

FAREWELL DRINKS