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2010
PEAKCARE QUEENSLAND presents
"CHALLENGING SILENCE" CONFERENCE : MARCH 2010
A Child Protection & Domestic Violence Advanced Training Conference
Keynote Speakers:
Jenny Gilmore
a prominent Australian Social Worker with a Ph D in Social Work and extensive work history in the field, Jenny is now a Private Practitioner, deeply committed to working with practitioners and communities to bring an end to violence affecting children, women, families and community.
Hugh Mackay
an Australian Psychologist, Social Researcher and writer. Hugh has been credited as being the person who ‘has his finger on the pulse of Australian society’.
Allan Wade
a Canadian with a Ph D in Psychology, Allan is the initiator and a leader in the field of response based therapy, a relatively new psychotherapeutic approach to treating trauma resulting from violence.
As a Professional you will be engaged to reflect on your practice and consider various perspectives, new knowledge and strategies to progress practice frameworks and interventions regarding these most traumatic issues in our community. Over the three days, participants will spend extended time with each of the keynote speakers to gain new knowledge and skills.
Date :
Wednesday 24th to Friday 26th March 2010
Location:
Stamford Plaza Hotel, Brisbane, QUEENSLAND.
To Register:
www.peakcareconference.com.au/
RELATIONSHIPS AUSTRALIA presents
An exclusive Queensland Seminar with PROFESSOR BESSEL VAN DER KOLK M.D.
Dr. van der Kolk is a Professor of Psychiatry, Boston University & Harvard Medical School, Founder and Medical Director of the Trauma Centre, Boston, USA and Past President of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Proposed topics for the day include:
Developmental Trauma Disorder - Diagnosing the Impact of Trauma on the Developing Mind, Brain and Self
Efficacy in treatment - Talk therapies, EMDR & pharmacology
Date:
Friday 26th March 2010
Location:
Riverglen Conference Centre, 70 Kate Street, Indooroopilly, Brisbane, QUEENSLAND.
To Register:
seminar@relateqld.com.au
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR COGNITIVE AND BEHAVIOUR THERAPY
Victorian Branch
33rd AACBT National Conference
Rising to the Challenge - CBT and Complexity
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS include:
Emeritus Professor Arthur Freeman
CBT for Personality Disorders in Children/Adolescents
A/Prof Alan E. Fruzzetti
Director, Dalectical Behaviour Therapy and Research Program Psychology, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, USA
Dialectics of Acceptance and Change in DBT and DBT with Couples
Dr Jacqueline B Persons
Director, San Francisco Bay Area Centre for Cognitive Therapy, Oakland, CA, USA
Cognitive-Behavioural Case Formulation and Progress Monitoring
Dr Robyn D, Walser
Director, TL Consultation Services, Richmond, CA, USA
ACT with Anxiety Disorders and PTSD
Professor Mervin Smucker
Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Imagery Reprocessing and Rescripting Therapy for PTSD
The Annual Australian Association of Cognitive & Behaviour Therapy Conference provides an excellent opportunity for the professionals with an interest in the application of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) to exchange ideas pertaining to research, practice and innovations in CBT.
Dates :
Friday 16th - Tuesday 20th April 2010
Location:
Grand Hyatt Melbourne. VICTORIA.
To Register:
www.aacbtvic.org.au
THE ASSOCIATION OF COUNSELLORS IN CATHOLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS QUEENSLAND 2010 CONFERENCE
The Conference Theme: KIDS AT RISK
Date :Wednesday 28th to Friday 30th April 2010
Location:
Twin Waters Resort, Sunshine Coast, QUEENSLAND.
To Register:
jim.bartlett@stjamescollege.qld.edu
THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION presents
Two Seminars with Richard Rose (UK) PROMOTING RECOVERY WITH TRAUMATIZED CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Richard Rose is a social worker, author and the Director of the Mary Walsh Institute in England, a specialist training organization for professionals working with traumatized children and young people in out of home care. Richard teaches and lectures internationally, including a range of graduate training programs in therapeutic care. He provides professional consultancy throughout the UK and is External Clinical Practice Supervisor for the Mental Health Service of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Government. Richard has published a number of papers on improving outcomes for traumatised children and is author of ‘The Child’s Own Story: Life Story Work with Traumatised Children’.
PROGRAM OUTLINE:
Seminar 1. Life Story Work with Traumatised Children
The Seminar provides an introduction to the life Story process, based on Richard Rose and Terry Philpot’s book. Participants learn how this work helps children make sense of the past, so that what has happened to them does not dominate, control or inhibit the present. On completion, participants will have an in-depth understanding of the techniques required to successfully undertake Life Story process.
Seminar 2. Building a Successful Approach to Therapeutic Residential Care for Traumatised Children and Young People
Therapeutic care is at the forefront of international efforts to reform out of home care. Drawing on theory and research about attachment, trauma and resilience, this workshop centres on how to provide therapeutic care for children and young people, specifically in residential and congregate care contexts. Firmly based in the day to day reality of living and working with traumatised children, the workshop will provide practical strategies for planning, integrating and monitoring strategies that meet the needs of individual children at home, school and other important environments. At the conclusion of this seminar, participants will be better able to proactively plan and implement practical individually tailored therapeutic care plans for children and young who have experienced abuse and neglect related trauma.
Dates & Locations :
BRISBANE - Novotel Brisbane
29 and 30 April 2010
SYDNEY - Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
3 and 4 May 2010
HOBART - Hobart Function and Conference Centre
Seminar 1 only on 7 May 2010
MELBOURNE - Sofitel Melbourne on Collins
13 and 14 May 2010
ADELAIDE - Adelaide Convention Centre
Seminar 1 only on 17 May 2010
PERTH - Burswood Convention and Events, Burswood
19 and 20 May 2010
To Register:
www.childhood.org.au/ProfessionalDevelopmentSeminars/
THE DELPHI CENTRE presents
A Workshop with DR JANINA FISHER
"HEALING BROKEN BONDS"
Traumatic Attachment & Affect Dysregulation
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Dr Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
Using intervention drawn from the neuroscience and attachment research and from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, this workshop will utilize a combination of lecture, video and experiential exercises to explore a neurobiologically-informed understanding of the impact of trauma on attachment behavior, somatic interventions for challenging trauma-related relational patterns, and opportunities to use ourselves as "neurobiological regulators" of the client's dysregulated emotional and autonomic states.
PROGRAM OUTLINE:
1. The Neurobiology of Attchment Formation
2. Attachment Styles from a Neurobiological Perspective
3. Disorganized Attachment and Trauma
4. Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
5. Facilitating Mindfulness
6. Effects of Disorganized-Unresolved Attachment on Transference
7. Stabilizing Traumatic Attachment Responses
8. Neuralplasticity and Affect Regulation
9. The Therapist as Neurobiological Regulator
Dates & Locations :
MELBOURNE
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
21 and 22 May 2010
SYDNEY
Le Montage Bayside Events Centre
25 and 26 May 2010
BRISBANE
Mercure Hotel Brisbane
29 and 30 May 2010
To Register:
www.delphicentre.com.au
THE COUNSELLORS AND PSYCHOTHERAPISTS ASSOCIATION OF NSW INC presents
The 2010 CAPA Conference: The Space Between with DR LOU COZOLINO
Dr Cozolino, the renowned Los Angeles clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at Pepperdine University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA, will be the keynote speaker and will also be presenting a workshop.
The Conference Theme:
As counsellors and psychotherapists, the space in which we work has many faces - perhaps its Winnicott and the transitional space, the space between synapses, spaces in relationships, between couples, the space between medical and relational models, the space between technology and human contact, the space between client and therapist and the space between rural and city practitioners.
Date :
Saturday 29th & Sunday 30th May 2010
Location:
Novotel, Brighton Beach, Sydney, NEW SOUTH WALES.
To Register:
capa@conferenceaction.com.au
THE DRUG & ALCOHOL NURSES OF AUSTRALIASIA 2010 CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS
The Conference Theme: DRUGS AND ALCOHOL: EVERY NURSE’S BUSINESS
Pre-Conference Workshops:
Workshop 1:
Where do the children play? Identifying the risk factors and challenges when working with children of substance using parents.
Workshop 2:
Creating inclusive services.
Wednesday 14th to Friday 16th July 2010
Location:
Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, QUEENSLAND.
To Register:
kim.thorne@qldguild.org.au
THE AUSTRALIAN & NEW ZEALAND MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION presents
The 11th International Mental Health Conference 2010 : DEPRESSION & ANXIETY : WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN AND HOW?
The ANZMH Association last visited Anxiety and Depression as a major conference theme in 2000. In the past ten years diagnoses and treatments of both conditions have evolved considerably supported by improved funding and support from State and Federal Govenments.
Who
are the leaders in the fields of depression and anxiety research and service provision?
What
new treatment have been developed that are recognised as evidence based treatments?
Where
do we go from here? What further developments are under consideration? What advances can we expect in the next ten years? What changes do we need to implement in the workplace to promote and provide better management of anxiety and depression?
When
and underwhat condition are treatments and programs likely to be successful?
How
are Governments developing policy to help with the ever increasing number of clients reporting with these conditions? How are new approaches being trialled?
Date :
Thursday 19th & Friday 20th August 2010
Location:
Holiday Inn, Surfers Paradise, QUEENSLAND.
To Register:
conference@anzmh.asn.au
THE AUSTRALIAN CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION presents
BEYOND SURVIVAL - USING RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PRACTICES OF INTERPERSONAL NEUROBIOLOGY TO PROMOTE ENDURING RECOVERY FROM VIOLENCE RELATED TRAUMA : A Seminar with DR DAN SIEGEL
Dr Dan Siegel is currently a clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain and Development and the Co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center. He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute, an educational organisation that focuses on how the development of Mindsight in individuals, families and communities can be enhanced by examining the interface of human relationships and basic biological processes. Dr. Siegel has published extensively.
OVERVIEW:
This seminar is a unique opportunity to hear first hand from one of the world’s leading authorities on trauma, attachment disruption and neurobiology. It will focus on understanding and interpreting up to date neuroscience research about the impact of stress and trauma on bodily based processes. The seminar will provide practical applications about ways to harness the power of neuroplasticity to transform the connections in the brain toward integration. In particular, it focuses on how to understand and utilise the intricate ways in which mind, brain and relationships — a “triangle of well-being” - resource growth and change.
Dates & Locations :
MELBOURNE — Sofitel Melbourne on Collins
22 October 2010
SYDNEY — Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre
25 October 2010
BRISBANE — Brisbane Convention Centre
26 October 2010
ADELAIDE - Adelaide Convention Centre
27 October 2010
PERTH — Burswood Convention and Events, Burswood
28 October 2010
To Register:
www.childhood.org.au/ProfessionalDevelopmentSeminars/
2010 TRAINING COURSES
NATIONALLY ACCREDITED TRAINING COURSES
AUSTRALIAN CHILDHOOD FOUNDATION
Vocational Graduate Certificate in Developmental Trauma (21910VIC)
This Graduate Certificate has been developed in response to an industry need identified by the Australian Childhood Foundation. This innovative, practical and relevant post graduate qualification will be offered for the first time in 2010 to welfare, education and health professionals interested in enhanching their approach to supporting abused and traumatized children, young people and their families.
The qualification presents participants with the knowledge and skills to respond to the needs of children and young people affected by the cumulative developmental and neurobiological harm caused by abuse and violence. It also provides the basis for participants to learn how to implement creative, consistent and multi-systemic responses to traumatized children, young poeple and their carers or family.
The ADELAIDE course for 2010 will be held on the following dates:
Introductory Block: Tuesday 13th April - Friday 16th April (inclusive)
Block 2: Friday 7th & Saturday 8th May
Block 3: Friday 4th & Saturday 5th June
Block 4: Friday 30th & Saturday 31st July
Block 5: Friday 6th & Saturday 7th August
Block 6: Friday 10th & Saturday 11th September
Block 7: Tuesday 5th October - Friday 8th October
Closing Block: Friday 29th & Saturday 30th October
Location:
The Adelaide course will be held at a central or inner suburbs venue to be confirmed
The MELBOURNE course for 2010 will be held on the following dates:
Introductory Block: Tuesday 23rd March - Friday 26th March(inclusive)
Block 2: Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th April
Block 3: Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd May
Block 4: Thursday 24th & Friday 25th June
Block 5: Friday 23rd & Saturday 24th July
Block 6: Friday 20th & Saturday 21st August
Block 7: Thursday 16th & Friday 17th September
Closing Block: Tuesday 19th October - Friday 22nd October
Location:
The Melbourne course will be held at the Australian Childhood Foundation, 579 Whitehorse Road, Mitcham.
Further Information:
For further information please contact the Course Coordiantor, Marina Dickson at: training@childhood.org.au