CONFERENCE PROGRAM
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
12:30 – Lunch break
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
17:00 – End of workshop
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
12:30 Lunch
13:30–15:00 - Parallel Sessions: TBA
15:00 - Afternoon tea
15:30 -17:00 - Parallel Sessions: TBA
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
18:00 - POSTER SESSION
19:00 - End of day’s sessions
TUESDAY, 20 Sept 2022
8.45 - WELCOME AND RECAP
9:00 -10.30 - INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD
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
10:00 - Invited speakers
CANNABIS IN PTSD – MYTH OR REALITY
Omer Bonne, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel
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
10.30 - Morning tea
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
11.45 -12.30 - Discussion panel - MDMA and psychedelic-assisted therapies and the healing of trauma
12.30 - Lunch
13:30 - 15.00 - INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PTSD
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
14:30 - Invited speakers - Topics TBA
Ruth Feldman, Professor of Developmental Social Neuroscience, Reichman University, Herzlia, Israel
15:00 - Afternoon tea
15:30 –16:30 - Parallel Sessions: TBA
16:30 - Panel Discussion: TRANSLATION OF INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Chair: David Forbes, Australia
17:15 -17:30 - CLOSING ADDRESS