FYI for sydney members Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Rachael Murrihy <info@aacbt.org> > Date: 23 January 2014 11:30:05 am AEDT > To: anna_203@hotmail.com > Subject: Free seminar for AACBT members: Russ Harris > Reply-To: Alina Morawska <info@aacbt.org> > > Hi anna, > > The AACBT Sydney Committee would like to announce two exciting professional development evening seminars to start the year off. > > For clinicians who would like an update on the latest literature in the PTSD field, Dr Jay Spence will be presenting a 1-hr evening seminar on this topic on the 24th February. For more information about the seminar please scroll down or visit the website www.aacbt.org (events link). > > Dr Russ Harris, a well known speaker in the area of ACT, will be presenting a 2 hour seminar entitled: ACT and CBT: Fellow travellers, different modes of transport. As one of the benefits of AACBT membership, members can attend this evening seminar free of cost. Please book as soon as possible as there are limited numbers. More details can be found below. > > PTSD: What does the evidence say? (1-hr evening seminar) > > Presenter: Dr Jay Spence > > When: Mon 24th Feb 2014, 7-8pm (6:45pm for a 7pm start) > > Where: Roxbury hotel.180-182 St Johns Road, Glebe, NSW Australia 2037. Please note we are now in the upstairs room. > > Cost: Members $20. Non-members: $40 > > Registration: www.aacbt.org (events link) > > Seminar Summary > > Many clinicians are aware of the substantial evidence showing that trauma-focused CBT is effective in reducing PTSD symptoms; however, fewer are aware of the evidence concerning eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR), group therapy for PTSD, narrative exposure therapy or sensorimotor approaches. This workshop will look at the evidence from all randomised controlled trials conducted between 1980 and 2012 to evaluate which therapies are most efficacious. Furthermore, although studies show that clinicians understand that exposure therapies (that require patients to engage with traumatic memories or reminders of the trauma) are the gold-standard approaches, very few actually use these treatments. Non-exposure- and exposure-based therapies will also be compared in terms of their efficacy and safety for those with PTSD symptoms. > > Key Learning Objectives > > - Gain an understanding of key background information about PTSD such as the diagnosis, prevalence, disease course and predictors. > > - Refresh knowledge about research in order to understand how academics conceptualise and run outcome research trials, how levels of evidence are weighted from single case studies through to meta-analyses. > > - Understand the literature for PTSD treatments with a focus on gold-standard approaches. > > - Understand the risks and benefits of using exposure-based treatments for PTSD. > > Presented by Dr Jay Spence > > Dr Jay Spence is a clinical psychologist specialising in the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). He was joint recipient of the Gold Prize at the Australian and New Zealand Mental Health Service Achievement Awards (2010), the St Vincent’s Health Australia National Invention and Innovation Award (2010) and was the recipient of the 2011 New South Wales Institute of Psychiatry Fellowship. He has published papers on the treatment of posttraumatic stress, social phobia, panic, generalized anxiety and transdiagnostic anxiety processes and received the ‘Research of Special Significance’ designation for a 2013 paper on EMDR. He held a conjoint lecturer position at the University of New South Wales from 2009 – 2011, lecturing on the treatment of anxiety and depression and was the recipient of the Centre for Emotional Health Student Publication Prize in 2011. He currently works in private practice in Potts Point and conducts research with the Centre for Emotional Health at Macquarie University. > > > ACT and CBT: Fellow travellers, different modes of transport (2-hr evening seminar) > > Presenter: Dr Russ Harris > > When: Wednesday March 12, 6-8pm (5:45pm for a 6pm start) > > Where: Health Psychology Unit, University of Technology Sydney. Ground floor, 174 Pacific Hwy, St. Leonards (adjacent to the Royal North Shore Hospital, close landmarks: Hotel Urban and 2UE Radio).If you take a left at Bellevue St you can park behind the blg or in the back streets closeby. > > Cost: FREE for members, $40 for non-members > > Registration: www.aacbt.org (events link) > > ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) and CBT are clearly fellow travellers - and overall, their commonalities far outweigh their differences. And yet, the differences between them are significant, most notably in the disparate ways they deal with unhelpful cognitions. This pub discussion will include a number of experiential exercises to give you a taste of the ACT model, and will focus on several key areas of difference between these two powerful approaches, including the differing philosophies of science underpinning them (functional contextualism in ACT versus elemental realism in CBT), cognitive defusion versus cognitive restructuring, the role and purpose of exposure, and the role of values. > > Russ Harris, author of the best-selling self-help book The Happiness Trap, is an internationally-renowned trainer of Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). Russ's background is in medicine. As a GP he became increasingly interested in the psychological aspects of health and wellbeing, and increasingly disenchanted with writing prescriptions. Ultimately this interest led to a total career change, and he now works in two different, yet complementary roles: both as a therapist and as a coach. > Since 2005, Russ has providing ACT training for over 14,000 Australian therapists, coaches, and other health professionals. He has also authored 4 ACT-based self-help books, and two ACT textbooks. The Happiness Trap is the most widely-translated ACT book in the world, now available in thirty different languages. > > > > You are subscribed as 'anna_203@hotmail.com' > > Unsubscribe? If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please click here to unsubscribe. > PLEASE NOTE: Certain email systems often categorise emails from an unknown address as SPAM. To ensure you receive our emails, please add 'info@aacbt.org' to your address book. > > If you use a SPAM filter, please be sure to include 'info@aacbt.org' as a legitimate sender of email communication. > > Getting more than one copy of our emails? Tell us and we`ll fix it! >