2010 Conference - 4th ANZ ACBS

4th Australian & New Zealand Conference of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ACT

1-3 October 2010

(Conference hours: 9:00am - 5:00pm)

Adelaide
University of South Australia - CityWest Campus

Featuring:

With Pre-conference workshops

Kelly Wilson - ACT from the Inside Out (29-30 September, 2-day)
Lance McCracken - ACT for Chronic Pain (30 September, 1-day)

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Draft Program

The Australian and New Zealand Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral Science is excited to present the fourth Australian/New Zealand conference on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Adelaide, South Australia, Friday October 1^st- Sunday October 3^rd 2010.

The Australian/New Zealand conference on ACT has run annually since 2007 and provides an opportunity for local ACT practitioners to receive up-to-date training from a range of international experts in ACT through an intensive series of workshops. It also provides a forum for local ACT practitioners to share their own ACT clinical work through workshops and case presentations, present research project results, and build networks within the ACT community for peer supervision, research collaboration and training promotion.

The 2010 conference will include clinical workshops on applying ACT with children and adolescents, chronic pain, addiction, psychosis and depression, and non-clinical workshops on an ACT approach to maximising performance and wellbeing. There will be a strong emphasis on presenting research underpinning the ACT model and its links with broader social psychological literature, as well as understanding the relationship of ACT to allied therapies such as Functional Analytic Psychotherapy and Behavioural Activation. Finally, the 2010 conference is aiming to provide better opportunities for exposure to local ACT practitioners presenting and to include “master classes” where local ACT practitioners can have an audience with ACT experts to ask questions they might ask in “supervision” sessions about their client work.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: NOW CLOSED

Those who have submitted abstracts will be notified of their acceptance by 14th August.

REGISTRATION

Attendees can register for the conference and pre-conference workshop here.