TENTATIVE TIMETABLE
SUNDAY, SEPT 6th
8:30 - Workshop 1: Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for Adults led by Prof Barbara Rothbaum
12:30 – Lunch
13:00 – Workshop 2: Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TFCBT) For Children & Adolescents led by Prof Tine Jensen
17:00 – End of workshop
18:45 – Opening session & Conference Dinner (special Guest Lecturer to be announced)
MONDAY, SEPT 7th
8.30-9:00 - GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTION Ron Finkel, President Hadassah Australia Co-Chairs
9:00 -10.30 - Theme 1 - INTERVENTIONS FOR REFUGEES AND SURVIVORS OF ONGOING CONFLICT
9:00 - INNOVATIONS IN INTERVENTIONS FOR REFUGEES AND DISPLACED PERSONS: THE WHO INTERVENTION TRIALS Richard Bryant, Professor of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
10:00 - Invited speakers on topic
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 -16:30 - Parallel Sessions: TBA
16:30 - TRAUMA AND ADVERSITY ACROSS THE UK: FINDINGS FROM THE UK MENTAL HEALTH REVIEW Simon Wessely, Professor of Psychological Medicine and Psychiatry, King’s College, London, UK
17:30 - QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
18:00 - End of day’s sessions
TUESDAY, SEPT 8th
8.45 - WELCOME AND RECAP
9:00 -10.30 - Theme 2 - INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD
9:00 - PSYCHOLOGICAL, PHARMACOLOGICAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF PTSD Barbara Rothbaum, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
10:00 - Invited speakers on topic:
Omer Bonne, Head, Department of Psychiatry, Hadassah Medical Center,
Jerusalem, Israel
Professor 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 -12.30 - Parallel Sessions: TBA
12.30 - Lunch
13:30 - 15.00 - Theme 3: INNOVATIONS IN THE TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PTSD
13.30 - TREATMENT OF CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH PTSD: WHERE ARE WE AT? 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 on topic:
Miri Keren, Assistant Clinical Professor at the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry department & Head of the Infant Psychiatry Post Graduate course, Tel-Aviv Sackler Medical School
15:00 - Afternoon tea
15:30 –16:30 - Parallel Sessions: TBA
16:30 - Panel Discussion: TRANSLATION OF INNOVATION INTO PRACTICE: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Chair: Simon Wessely
17:15 -17:30 - CLOSING ADDRESS
