SUNDAY, 18 Sept 2022

8:30 - Workshop 1: PROLONGED EXPOSURE (PE) THERAPY FOR ADULTS WITH  PTSD

Led by Barbara Rothbaum, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

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12:30 – Lunch break

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13:00 – Workshop 2: TRAUMA FOCUSED COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY (TFCBT) FOR CHILDREN & ADOLESCENTS WITH PTSD

Led by Tine Jensen, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, & Senior Researcher, Norwegian Center on Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway 

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17:00 – End of workshop

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18:45 – Opening session & Conference Dinner (special Guest Lecturer to be announced)

MONDAY, 19 Sept 2022

8.30-9:00 - GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTION
David Forbes, Phoenix Australia,

Conference Co-Chair

9:00 -10.30 - INTERVENTIONS FOR REFUGEES AND SURVIVORS OF ONGOING CONFLICT

9:00 - INNOVATIONS IN INTERVENTIONS FOR REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS: THE WHO INTERVENTION TRIALS

Keynote Speaker
Richard Bryant, Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

10:00 - Invited speakers

THE PALESTINIAN ISRAELI ENCOUNTER: THE CASE OF THE BINATIONAL SCHOOL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY

Shafiq Masalha

Clinical psychotherapist; President of ERICE (Empowerment and Resilience In Children Everywhere); Senior Academic Lecturer, Tel Aviv University & Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

​Esti Galili-Weisstub

Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Unit, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

10:30 - Morning tea

11:00-12:30 - Parallel Sessions: TBA

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12:30 Lunch

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13:30–15:00 - Parallel Sessions: TBA

15:00 - Afternoon tea

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15:30 -17:00 - Parallel Sessions: TBA

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17:00 - TRAUMA, THE COVID PANDEMIC AND ADVERSITY ACROSS THE UK 

Keynote Speaker
Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK

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18:00 - POSTER SESSION

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19:00 - End of day’s sessions

TUESDAY, 20 Sept 2022

8.45 - WELCOME AND RECAP

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9:00 -10.30 -  INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD

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9:00 - PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD
Keynote Speaker

Barbara Rothbaum, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

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10:00 - Invited speakers

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CANNABIS IN PTSD – MYTH OR REALITY

Omer Bonne, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

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PTSD – A DISORDER OF AN EPISODIC MEMORY?

Yair Bar Haim, Director of the Center for Development and Psychopathology,and the Laboratory for Research on Anxiety and Trauma,

Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

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10.30 - Morning tea

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11:00 -11:45 - MDMA-ASSISTED THERAPIES AND THE HEALING OF TRAUMA: INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNAL, MULTIGENERATIONAL
Keynote speaker
Rick Doblin, Founder and Executive Director of Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

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11.45 -12.30 - Discussion panel - MDMA and psychedelic-assisted therapies and the healing of trauma

12.30 - Lunch

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13:30 - 15.00 - INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PTSD

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13.30 - TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PTSD: WHERE ARE
WE AT?
Keynote Speaker

Tine Jensen, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, & Senior

Researcher, Norwegian Center on Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies, Oslo, Norway

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14:30 - Invited speakers - Topics TBA

Ruth Feldman, Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience, Reichman University, Herzlia, Israel 

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15:00 - Afternoon tea

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15:30 –16:30 - Parallel Sessions: TBA

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16:30 - Panel Discussion: TRANSLATION OF INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Chair: David Forbes, Australia

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17:15 -17:30 - CLOSING ADDRESS