Celebrating the past, looking toward the future
29 September – 2 October 2015
Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Queensland
Join us in celebrating 50 years of APS Annual Conferences; the Golden Jubilee Conference held on the spectacular Gold Coast. This is your opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge, hear about the latest developments in psychology, meet like-minded colleagues, consult with peers and accrue professional development hours.
Learn from eminent keynote speakers
Professor Suzanne Chambers MAPS - Griffith University
- Psycho-oncology: The Science of Care
Professor Carlo DiClemente - University of Maryland (US)
- Finding pieces to the puzzle of health behavior change:
A 30 year retrospective
Professor Jackie Huggins AM - Jackie Huggins and Associates
- Reconciliation and social justice
Professor David Kavanagh FAPS - Queensland University of Technology
- From systematic desensitisation to innovations in motivational interventions
Listen to invited addresses from prominent Australian psychologists
Emeritus Professor Trang Thomas AM FAPS
2014 APS President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in Australia recipient
- Reflections on a psychologist's journey
Winthrop Professor Colin MacLeod
2014 APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Science Award recipient
- Anxiety-linked attentional bias and its modification: Historical foundations, current challenges and future directions
Professor Ann Sanson FAPS
Fellow’s Address
- What leads to a happy and healthy life? Looking back over a 32-year study - and towards the future
Acquire new skills at the Conference workshops
Full-day pre-Conference workshop – Tuesday 29 September
Professor David Kavanagh FAPS
Functional Imagery Training: A new, theory-grounded approach to eliciting and sustaining motivation
Half-day pre-Conference workshops – Tuesday 29 September
Associate Professor Warrick Brewer MAPS
- Engaging and managing angry young men with mental health issues: A six-session intervention
Professor Simon Crowe FAPS
- A clinician's guide to the neurocognitive disorders of the DSM-5
Associate Professor Brett Deacon
- Exposure therapy for anxiety: Principles, practice, and maximising inhibitory learning
Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg FAPS
- Coping across the life span: Developing resilience
Mr Les Posen FAPS
- Presentation skills for 21st century psychologists and their audiences
Dr James H. Bray
- Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for substance use problems
Professor Suzanne Chambers MAPS
- Developing and evaluating health interventions in chronic disease: Psychosocial care for people affected by cancer
Mr Stephen Heydt MAPS
- Framework for the treatment of severe, chronic and refractory (difficult to treat) trauma
Dr Melissa Day MAPS
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for pain and therapist self-care
Professor Alfred Allan FAPS
- Psychologists' collection and management of clients' information: A legal-ethical perspective
Experience diverse and stimulating scientific and practice sessions
The Conference program embraces the diversity, rich history and future hopes of psychology through the theme ‘Celebrating the past, looking toward the future’. There is a wide range of symposia, fora, ‘how to’ and individual presentation sessions, crossing dozens of topic areas, promising something of interest for everyone.
Highlights include:
- Rural and remote issues
- Innovation and technology in psychology
- Initiatives related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Maori psychology
- Learning and teaching, including supervision
- Controversies in psychology
- Primary care psychology
- Making the most of your member benefits
- Professional practice sessions discussing developments in integrated care, ePsychology, ethics, insurance, legal issues and professional risk
- A forum of APS Presidents, reflecting on the past and sharing hopes for the future of psychology
- Over 140 digital poster presentations spread across seven poster sessions, showcasing fascinating and exciting insights and developments.
Are you a student, early career academic or researcher?
Meet your peers, connect with potential mentors, and learn from experienced academics and researchers. The Conference provides a number of opportunities for this, including:
- Networking with peers and senior academics and researchers over a Student Mentoring breakfast on Thursday 1 October, and an Early Career Researcher morning tea on Friday 2 October
- A dedicated Early Career Researcher ‘How to’ session on Friday 2 October
- Presentations from APS Science Awards recipients of 2014
- Insights into journal publication, as well as the NHMRC/ARC funding and review process.
For more information on the Conference program and registration details go to: www.apsconference.com.au
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