1. Healthcare

Thursday 26 February – Sunday 1 March 2015
program is subject to change by the Conference Organisers
Thursday 26 February 2015
1pm – 7pm
Delegate Registration – Grand Ballroom Foyer
You must be pre-registered to attend the Pre-conference workshops. Attendance is not included in the conference registration fee
Pre-Conference Workshops
2pm – 5pm
Workshop 1 (2pm – 5.30pm)
Workshop 2 (2pm – 5.30pm)
Workshop 3 (2pm – 5.30pm)
Grand 5
Grand 3
Grand 4
Secrets, lies, hypocrisy and betrayls: Another
Counselling lesbian, gay, bisexual and
Practical ways of working with trauma using
day at the office of the couples therapist
transgender persons
Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Ms Elisabeth Shaw MAPS
Professor Y. Barry Chung
Dr Melissa Harte MAPS
6pm – 8pm
Welcome Reception - Grand Ballroom Foyer
Friday 27 February 2015
7am – 5pm
8.45am – 10am
10am – 10.30am
10.30am – 12pm
Delegate Registration – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Grand 5 & 6
Conference Official Opening and Keynote Address – Professor Y. Barry Chung
Current Opportunities and challenges of counselling psychology in the U.S.
Session Chair: Michael Di Mattia
Morning Tea – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Concurrent Session 1A
Concurrent Session 1B
Concurrent Session 1C
Grand 1 & 2
Grand 3
Grand 4
Session Chair: Joanne Dennison
Session Chair: Elaine Hosie
Session Chair: Ania Krysztofiak
Individual Research Paper (15 mins) Individual Research Paper (15 mins) Symposia (45 mins)
A qualitative study of the experience
Explaining why some students
Detecting and identifying
of embodied therapists working with procrastinate successfully: adaptive
ruptures in psychotherapy: are
survivors of sexual abuse
perfectionism and psychological
clients better at it than
A. White
capital as predictors
therapists?
R. Hicks
G. Denham, M. Buultjens and M.
Monfires
Concurrent Session 1D
Grand 5& 6
Session Chair: Linda Tilgner
How to Session (90 mins)
Sensorimotor and mindfulness based
interventions with adult survivors of
childhood trauma
D. Miso
10.30am – 12pm
12pm - 1pm
1pm – 2pm
2pm – 3.30pm
Individual Research Paper (15 mins) Individual Research Paper (15 mins) Symposia (45 mins)
What is it about the therapeutic
A qualitative investigation of the
Expert functioning from the point
alliance that enables trust with adult service model of a refugee mental
of view of a humanist-existential
survivors of sexual abuse?
health service
therapist
S. Tudge
K. White
G. Wills
Individual Research Paper (15 mins) Individual Research Paper (15 mins)
The searching phenomenon:
Please include me…..family members’
Exploring the experiences of families
cries for support and information on
of missing persons
OCD
G. Glassock
S. Beeken
Individual Research Paper (15 mins) Individual Research Paper (15 mins)
The impact of adolescent sibling
Utilising technology in the treatment
bereavement psychosocial
of body image and eating disorders
development and psychological well- D. Franko
being.
J. Godfrey
Individual Research Paper (15 mins)
Separated parents in meditation and
perceptions of their children’s
psychological distress.
J. Lee
Grand 5 & 6
Keynote Address – Adjunct Associate Professor Jan Grant FAPS
managing difficulties in supervision
Session Chair: Roger Cook
Lunch – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Concurrent Session 2A
Concurrent Session 2B
Concurrent Session 2C
Grand 1 & 2
Grand 3
Grand 4
Session Chair: Melissa Harte
Session Chair: Geoffrey Glassock
Session Chair TBC
Individual Research paper (20 mins) How to Session (45 mins)
How to Session (45 mins)
The experience of post-breakup
military culture and deployments:
The letter as the “Untangler”:
connectedness in heterosexual and
impact on families
Applying narrative therapy
gay men in Australia
L. Needham
practices and enriching
M. Monfries
conversations
L. Bognar, R. Taub and S.
Heilemann
Concurrent Session 2D
Grand 5 & 6
Session Chair: Roger Cook
Professional Practice Forum
(45 mins)
providing expert therapy within a
social determinants of health
framework
H. Gridley
2pm – 3.30pm
Individual Research paper (20 mins)
Sexualisation of women and girls:
Australian women’s experiences.
R. Wicklein
How to Session (45 mins)
EMDR. Complex PTSD and adjunctive
experiential resource development
M. Burge
How to Session (45 mins)
Enabling adolescent sexual
intelligence and integrity
S. Calleja
Individual Research Paper (20 mins)
Integrating Counselling Psychology
into interprofessional research and
practice: A university case-based
study
D. Franko
3.30pm – 4pm
4pm – 5pm
Individual Research paper (20 mins)
Workplace stress, personality,
personal resources and mindfulness
practices of Australian based
counsellors
R. Hicks
Individual Research paper (20 mins)
The professional identity of
counselling psychologists: Lessons
from around the world
C. Young
Afternoon Tea – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Grand 5 & 6
Keynote Address – Dr Monica Thielking MAPS
Contextual Issues in mental Health: Homelessness and Trauma
Session Chair: Roger Cook
Saturday 28 February 2015
8am – 4pm
9am – 10am
10am – 11am
11am – 11.30am
11.30am – 1pm
11.30am – 1pm
Delegate Registration – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Grand 5 & 6
Keynote Address – Elisabeth Shaw MAPS
Couple and family therapy: Ethical issues in contemporary practice
Session Chair: Geoffrey Glassock
Grand 5 & 6
Keynote Address – Professor Jeremy Holmes
Relational neuroscience – implications for psychotherapy practice
Session Chair: Jan Grant
Morning Tea – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Concurrent Session 3A
Concurrent Session 3B
Concurrent Session 3C
Grand 1 & 2
Grand 3
Grand 4
Session Chair: Roger Cook
Session Chair: Jan Grant
Session Chair: Tom Schick
Individual Research Paper (15 mins) How to Session (45 mins)
How to Session (45 mins)
Efficacy of anger management group Working with historical interpersonal parental alienation: Responding
L. Rossi
trauma in couples’ therapy
to deliberate ruptures of
Concurrent Session 3D
Grand 5 & 6
Session Chair: Elaine Hosie
How to Session (45 mins)
Supporting clients with the grief of
mental illness
Individual Research Paper (15 mins)
Listening to clients’ spiritual
experiences: useful concepts from
psychoanalysis, cultural
anthropology and Tibetan Buddhism
J. Simmonds
Individual Research Paper (15 mins)
Harmless humour or misplaced
malice? Exploring attitudes towards
stereotypes of men
M. Sier
Individual Research Paper (30 mins)
Divorce and the experience of
Australian men
S. Delaney
1pm – 2pm
2pm – 3.30pm
Concurrent Session 4A
Grand 1 & 2
Session Chair: Roger Cook
How to session (45 mins)
Redefining individual and social
identity after the survival of violence.
A comprehensive assessment and
psychotherapy for the liberation of
the impact of violence
A. Castro
How to Session (45 mins)
Working with eating disorders: A
neurobiologically informed dynamic
approach to psychotherapy
M. Ruggiero
L. Tigner
children’s loving parental
relationships
S. Korosi
L. Burke
Professional Practice Forum
(45 mins)
You, me and us: existential
conversations within a couple and
cancer framework
K. Anderson
How to Session (45 mins)
Anxiety in children: An emotion
focussed and parent perspective
of the highly sensitive child.
M. Harte
How to Session (45 mins)
The resilience pilot project: building
growth, fulfilment and redefining
individual and social identity after an
acquired brain injury
A. Castro
Lunch – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Counselling College National Executive Information Forum – Grand 5 & 6
Concurrent Session 4B
Concurrent Session 4C
Grand 3
Grand 4
Session Chair: Melissa Harte
Session Chair: Joanne Dennison
Presentations by Student Award
How to Session (45 mins)
Winners 2014 (20 mins)
Domestic violence interventions:
"I never knew I was that strong": A
utilising diagnosis, mindfulness
qualitative exploration of the
and research on attachment and
processes and outcomes of Posttrauma.
Traumatic Growth following
D. Misso and N. Denning
perceived life-threatening
experiences
L. Ritchie
Presentations by Student Award
How to Session (45 mins)
Winners 2014 (20 mins)
I just snap: Case
Leaders' Attachment Orientations,
conceptualisation and treatment
their Authentic Leadership Levels,
planning for men acting out in
and Followers' Workplace Experience intimate relationships.
A. Pensom
N. Denning
Concurrent Session 4D
Grand 5 & 6
Session Chair: Tom Schick
Professional Practice Forum
(90 mins)
Better outcomes for clients using
brief assessment measures.
J. McNally, C. Mackey and K.
Frankcom
3.30pm – 4pm
4pm – 5.15pm
How to Session (45 mins)
‘Innovative supervison’: professional
development of counselling
psychologists
E. Tillinger and L. Shugg
Afternoon Tea – Grand Ballroom Foyer
Grand 5 & 6
Keynote Address – Gerard Webster MAPS and Official Conference Closing
An examination of child sexual abuse within institutional settings through the lens of contemporary relational psychoanalysis
Session Chair: Michael Di Mattia
Sunday 1 March 2015
8.30am –
Delegate Registration – Lake Lobby
3.30pm
You must be pre-registered to attend the Post-conference workshops. Attendance is not included in the conference registration fee.
9am – 12.30pm Workshop 4 (9am – 12.30pm)
1.30pm – 4.30pm
Workshop 5 (1.30pm – 4pm)
Lake 1 & 2
Lake 1 & 2
Brief psychodynamic therapy
Transference: A practical/theoretical
Professor Jeremy Holmes
model
Professor Jeremy Holmes