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Professor Zatzick will provide an overview of clinical epidemiologic methods and early trauma focused interventions, in post-disaster contexts. There will be an applied discussion of post-disaster interventions, using the Haiti earthquake and Hurricane Katrina relief effort as examples. Issues such as relief effort experiences, providing supportive care, medications, and psychotherapy will be discussed in the context of barriers and facilitators to real world intervention delivery in the post-disaster context. Special considerations for ethnoculturally diverse populations, such as US Native American/aboriginal populations, Haiti and US refeugee populations will be discussed. |
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There has been a gap in the field for a manual-driven psychotherapy for traumatized young children that can address a broad range of traumatic events. In this workshop, Professor Scheeringa will provide training on the use of the Preschool PTSD Treatment (PPT) manual, a 12-session manualised protocol. In the first randomized clinical trial to treat 3-6 year-old children with PTSD from any type of traumatic event, children treated with this manual showed significant improvement with a large effect size. The principles of CBT techniques that are developmentally adapted for younger children will be reviewed and illustrated with videotaped examples. Discussion will include how to involve parents and handle salient parent-child relationship issues |
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The aim of this workshop is to introduce participants to working in culturally competent ways with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. The workshop will explore/discuss the core competencies, knowledge, skills, understandings and attributes regarded as essential for health practitioners and researchers who work with indigenous populations. This workshop is informed by the National Practice Standards for the Mental Health Workforce (2002 and will address professional responsibilities of working as part of a multidisciplinary team, engaging in ethical practice, understanding notions of cultural safety, and acquiring cultural competence |
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As part of the workshop, Professor Dudgeon and A.Professor Walker will introduce a book they have co-authored “Working Together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice” which introduces ways of working in culturally competent ways with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. They will use hypothetical case studies to illustrate key components of cultural competence and for group discussions. They will examine concepts of whiteness studies, Indigenous knowledge, power, anti-colonialism and multidisciplinary and examine a range of tools and strategies and a Critical Reflective Framework for Analysis to assist students or practitioners to develop these key competencies in their practice.
Participants can access the book at: http://www.ichr.uwa.edu.au/files/user5/Working_Together_book_web_0.pdf prior to the workshop.
Bio: Professor Pat Dudgeon: Dr Pat Dudgeon is from Bardi and Gija people of the Kimberley. She studied psychology and joined the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University of Technology. She was appointed as the Head of the Centre for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin and provided leadership in Indigenous higher education for over 19 years. Dr Dudgeon has also had significant involvement specifically in psychology and Indigenous issues. She was the inaugural convener of the Australian Psychological Society Interest Group, Aboriginal Issues and Aboriginal People and Psychology, and convenes conferences and discussion groups at a national level ensuring Indigenous issues are part of the ongoing agenda. She is a Research Fellow at the School of Indigenous Studies, UWA.
Bio: Associate Professor Roz Walker: Dr. Roz Walker has over 25 years’ experience as a researcher and educator working with Aboriginal communities building local capacity within both Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal organisations. Roz worked at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies for many years, and was Deputy Director of Curtin Indigenous Research Centre prior to working with Kulunga Research Network at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. Her key areas of interest include developing transformative and decolonising strategies at individual, organisational and community levels as well as promoting system level change. She brings experience as a community based researcher who has developed long-standing relationships with Aboriginal communities across the state. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Research Excellence in Aboriginal Health and Well Being, Centre for Child Health Research, UWA and Principal Investigator at the Telethon Institute of Child Health Research, WA.
| In this half day workshop, Chris discusses the very latest findings from his research and others that underscores the crucial mechanisms involved in a person’s recovery through EMDR. Clinical cases are also used to illustrate these research findings. These findings are contrasted with what we know of key processes in other treatments. This workshop is not an introduction to EMDR but intended for people who have some experience in the method. Suggestions for further improving EMDR practise will be made. |
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While systematic reviews strongly support the use of prolonged exposure in the treatment of PTSD, it is not widely used by clinicians in the field as one might expect. There may be a multitude of reasons for this, but anecdotal reports suggest that many clinicians have apprehensions about their ability to conduct the treatment effectively. This workshop will introduce prolonged exposure in a readily accessible and practical way. Participants will receive basic skills training on how to conduct prolonged exposure. Case discussions will be used to demonstrate this treatment strategy. |
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