Trauma meetings & conferences

1st International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Mediterranean Countries

November 5-7, 2012 Tel Aviv, Israel

The 1st International Conference on Cultural Psychiatry in Mediterranean Countries is a highly anticipated and ambitious event that seeks to deal with novel issues appearing in a world of open frontiers, new opportunities and international upheaval and conflicts, particularly relevant in light of recent events in the region.

Identity is an evolving concept, where group boundaries have become blurred. Mental health professionals will be given the opportunity to participate in stimulating and fruitful discussions on a great variety of issues such as clinical aspects of acculturative stress, neuropsychopharmacology and integrative treatment methods.

The conference, to be held 5-7 November 2012, is aimed at leading psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, social anthropologists, students and anyone with a specialized interest in the rapidly evolving area of transcultural psychiatry.

Preliminary List of Topics

Mood, anxiety and psychotic disorders related to migration
Cultural neuropsychopharmacology
Suicide and cultural transition
Trauma and migration
Religiosity and spirituality
Stigma and Culture
Cultural transition

Kenes International
Kenes Group Building
2 Hayarden St.
Airport City, Lod 70151
Israel
Tel: +972 3 9727405
Fax: + 972 72 2447271
E-mail: wpa-tps@kenes-events.com

Pan Arab Psychiatric Conference (PAPC2012)

Novembe 29-December 1, 2012 Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The theme selected for the Mental Health Changes in the Arab World (Violence, Trauma and Recovery) will address the involvement of the mental health professionals in providing services for people affected by the recent developments in the region. It is an opportunity to discuss and share development, trends, scientific research and treatments advancements in the impact of the violence on the mental health specifically and psychotrauma and Psychiatric disorders in general not forgetting Recovery.

Together with a carefully selected educational program and a group of highly renowned regional and international keynote speakers, we promise you a significant scientific enrichment for people involved hoping to benefit the region on the ground in the post period of the conference and initiate mental health programs the region needs.

Meeting Minds Experts
PAPC2012 Professional Conference Organisers

pco@papc2012.com

12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma & Coping

February 19-24, 2013 Baltimore, Maryland

The 12th World Congress on Stress, Trauma and Coping is the premier forum for multidisciplinary exchange of ideas and information among those who provide crisis and disaster mental health services.

Sessions during the 12th World Congress have been designed to provoke critical thinking challenge current convention offer innovative ideas and insights & fully explore the many applications of critical incident response in various industries, settings and situations.

World Congress participants will identify the tools needed to solve current problems and explore the future direction of the crisis intervention field. The 6 day World Congress will include a variety of presentation formats ideally suited to exploring concepts, practical applications and results in sessions designed for professionals in all practice settings and experience levels.

World Congress Major Content Themes
Over 125 presenters will cover the spectrum of crisis intervention in these and other areas:

Research / Innovations Military Disaster Response Healthcare Settings Faith Based Applications Emergency Services, Public Safety Corporate / Industry / EAP Specialty Populations Team Development and Care Schools, Children

Who Should Attend

The ICISF 12th World Congress is a “must attend” experience for anyone working in the fields of crisis intervention, traumatic stress, emergency services & disaster mental health, including:

Disaster response personnel Psychiatrists Humanitarian aid workers Counselors Law-enforcement officers Social workers Firefighters Faith-based providers EMTs / Paramedics Employee representative organizations & Unions Military personnel First response support agencies Homeland security personnel Media correspondents / journalists Emergency service administrators Grief counselors Emergency operations administrators & managers Employee assistance professionals Corrections officials Commercial & industrial organization employees Healthcare professionals & administrators Airline & other transportation industry personnel Educators, school employees Communication officers & dispatch personnel Crisis workers Security professionals Suicidologists Victim's advocates Psychologists Risk managers

Why Attend?
The Crisis Intervention field continues to grow, building on excellent proven programs and strategies while incorporating innovations that meet the needs and challenges of the diverse populations we serve. As crisis interventionists we must learn from one another to continually improve the services provided to the level of best practices.

At the 12th World Congress, you'll have an incomparable opportunity to interact with experts in the field and hundreds of your peers from around the U.S. and world who, like you, are committed to providing assistance to those affected by critical incident stress. Choose from over 70 presentations that will explore how the practice of crisis intervention is evolving and adapting to meet the needs and challenges of the future.

Please address any questions to:

Shelley Cohen
World Congress Program Manager
scohen@icisf.org
(410) 750-9600

29th International Seating Symposium

March 5 – 9, 2013
(March 5 to 6 Pre-Symposium & March 7 to 9 Main Symposium)

Nashville, Tennessee

The symposium will include scientific and clinical papers, a research forum, in-depth workshops, panel sessions, and an extensive exhibit hall. Presentations should address the seating and wheeled mobility issues of people with disabilities across the lifespan such as neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury and diseases of the spinal cord, orthopedic conditions, systemic conditions, obesity, or polytrauma.

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation 2012 Annual Conference

October 20-22, 2012 Long Beach, California

ISSTD will explore this theme of Integrating Science and Practice: Moving forward together in the field of Trauma and Dissociation. Come be a part of the conference. Submit your proposals to explore this idea together.

Conference objectives

1. Learn about the most recent research on Complex Posttraumatic Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Developmental Trauma Disorder, and their relationships with one another.

2. Describe the central role of dissociation in posttraumatic reactions and disorders.

3. Increase knowledge about the assessment and treatment of trauma and dissociation in children, adolescents, and adults.

4. Identify the subjective symptoms and objective signs of dissociation, learn how best to understand these phenomena, and how to conduct methodologically sound research on dissociation.

5. Develop an appreciation for, and engage in dialogue about, the roles and forms of dissociation in different cultures and geographic regions.

6. Learn about the diagnosis, treatment, and developmental needs of children and adolescents who have been repeatedly traumatized, abused, and/or neglected.

7. Learn about assessment, diagnosis, theories, and treatment approaches for adults with complex posttraumatic symptoms and disorders

8. Describe the relationships among trauma-driven symptoms, posttraumatic disorders, and other common mental disorders (especially anxiety and depressive disorders).

9. Identify the core clinical areas of competence for clinicians who work with complex trauma and dissociation.

10. Learn new treatment techniques and pharmacological interventions for complex trauma and dissociation.

11. Identify ways that treatment can go wrong for patients with complex posttraumatic and dissociative disorders, learn how to avoid these pitfalls, and learn how to resolve these impasses should they occur.

12. Describe and successfully manage the complex interactional dynamics (transference and countertransference reactions) that routinely characterize the therapy of persons with complex trauma-related disorders.

Questions?

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
8400 Westpark Drive, 2nd Floor
McLean, VA 22102 USA
Phone: 703-610-9037
Fax: 703-610-0234

Beyond Words: Helping Families Through Grief After Sudden Loss

An Interdisciplinary Conference Organized by the All Inclusive Care for Children Coalition

April 26, 2013 Vernon, New York

Contact Us:

12 Rhoads Drive
Utica, NY • 13502
Phone: 1-877-515-8490
Fax: 315-792-9734
Email: Info@allinclusivecareforchildren.com

14th International Conference on Emergency Medicine

The conference will take place from 27th to 30th June 2012 in Dublin, Ireland.

The theme of ICEM 2012 is ‘Bridging the Gap between Evidence and Practice’. We have created an innovative academic programme which is based on the patient’s journey through the emergency care system and we aim to deliver up-to-date evidence-based reviews coupled with original research of high quality.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Pre-hospital and Disaster Medicine including Military Medicine;
• Triage and Rapid Assessment;
• Resuscitation and Trauma;
• Paediatric Emergency Medicine;
• Clinician Decision Unit Care;
• Office/Administration/Education;
• Technology in Emergency Medicine;
• Research in Emergency Medicine;
• Overcrowding in Emergency Medicine;
• International and Humanitarian Emergency Medicine or
• Any other issues relevant to Emergency Medicine.

If you have any questions or comments please direct them to the conference secretariat:

MCI - Dublin Office (formerly Ovation Group)
1 Clarinda Park North, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin - Ireland
Phone: +353 (0)1 280 2641/ Fax: +353 (0)1 280 5405
E: icem2012@mci-group.com
W: www.ovation.ie/home

Trauma and Traumatization: In and Beyond Biblical Literature

International Conference, June 6th – 9th, 2012

Department of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, Aarhus University (Aarhus, Denmark)

Since the effect of the Vietnam War on the individual psyche of American soldiers was first defined in the 1980’s as “PTSD” (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), trauma has become a central term of psychiatric diagnosis and therapy. In consequence, terms like ‘traumatic memory’, ‘trauma narrative’, and ‘trauma and testimony’ have been used to describe various individual and collective incidents in both present (e.g. September 11, 2001; the war in Iraq and Afghanistan up to 2010) and past tense (e.g. the Holocaust).

Trauma, however, is not only a modern concept which derives from 20th century psychiatry: It is an ancient phenomenon which predates our modern societies. Thus, the question of how the psychological impact and social characteristics of trauma can be defined for each period in history is central to the current trauma‐discourse: Here, psychiatry meets the Humanities (e.g. history, art history, sociology, politics, religion).

Since traumata affect nearly all areas of social and cultural life, reflection upon them as well as developing the ability to overcome them goes beyond pure medical science. In this frame, biblical and para‐biblical literature plays an important role: It reflects more than 1500 years of coping with traumatic incidents (e.g. temple destruction, exile, exodus, wars, passion narratives, martyrdoms, persecutions), and thus provides a substantial contribution to our understanding of trauma in both historic and modern contexts.

During a joint senior‐seminar at the Faculty of Theology in Aarhus (Fall 2009 and Spring 2010), scholars in the fields of Old and New Testament, as well as Patristics, explored how the concept of trauma can be applied to (para‐)biblical texts, by e.g. considering them (a) as historical sources to individual or collective traumatic incidents in Ancient Israel, early Judaism, early Christianity, up until the Persian and Arabic conquests in the 7th century CE (cf. R. G. Hoyland, 1997), (b) as fictitious literature that insinuates, continues, sublimes, or invents traumata, (c) as basic religious literature that has provoked later generations to imitate e.g. martyrdom‐experiences (cf. martyr‐literature), and (d) as therapeutic media which might help modern readers to overcome their contemporary traumata.

Throughout the course of the seminar, it was found that studying Biblical texts as trauma‐literature inspires exegesis, as well as opens up a multiplicity of methods and dimensions which help to broaden and deepen the trauma‐discourse. It is no coincidence that “Trauma in Biblical Literature” could function as a new paradigm in post‐modern Biblical Studies (cf. e.g. W. S. Morrow, 2004; A. Birnbaum, 2008).

The Conference

The aim of this international and decidedly interdisciplinary conference is to demonstrate how a highly developed expertise in interpreting Biblical and cognate literature is a substantial part of the overall discourse on the historical, literary, social, political, and religious dimensions of trauma in past and present.

The Faculty of Theology at the University of Aarhus combines strong competencies in literary and historical exegesis of (para‐)biblical and patristic texts with the approach of religious studies, and such a project as this also builds a bridge to strong fields of research in psychiatry and psychology at AU which deal with e.g. autobiography and memory. Participants will include internationally leading scholars, external scholars who are related to the topic and affiliated to the Faculty, and scholars of the Faculty of Theology in Aarhus.

Organizing Committee

Eve-Marie Becker: eb@teo.au.dk

Jan Dochhorn: jd@teo.au.dk

Else K. Holt: ekh@teo.au.dk

Erin J. Wright: ejw@teo.au.dk

Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association

17-20 July 2012, Canberra, Australia

The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association.

The field of auto/biography and life narrative studies is dynamic and interdisciplinary. Founded in 1999, the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) is the leading international forum for scholars, critics and practitioners. The Framing Lives conference will feature distinguished international speakers and events at the National Portrait Gallery and other national collecting institutions.

Framing Lives draws attention to the extraordinary turn to the visual in contemporary life narrative: to graphics and animations, photographs and portraits, installations and performances, avatars and characters, that come alive on screens, stages, pages, and canvas, through digital and analogue technologies. At the same time, framing suggests the ways that lives are lived, recorded and viewed through multiple frames including those of language, politics, place, gender, history and culture. It draws attention to the multiple ‘I’s of auto/biographical representations now, and the various fields of vision, lines of sight, and points of focus for critics, artists, writers, historians and curators in the life worlds of auto/biography. Conference themes include depiction and display, ethics and rights, living archives, place and displacement, media and celebrity, digital identity and social media, and creative life narrative.

Convenors

Paul Arthur (Deputy Director, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University)
Rosanne Kennedy (Associate Professor and Head of Discipline, Gender Sexuality & Culture, Australian National University)
Gillian Whitlock (ARC Professorial Fellow, School of English, Media Studies & Art History, University of Queensland)

Conference Themes

1. Depiction and display

Histories and analyses of visual representations of lives
Lives as art, including portraiture, sculpture, photography, film and new media
The life of objects and things in storytelling
Curating online collections
Adaptation and remediation
Eavesdropping and voyeurism
Framing, filtering, capturing, exposing, colouring lives
Digitisation, simulation, authenticity

2. Ethics and rights

Human rights, privacy, advocacy, law
Rights of biographical subjects
Trauma, grief and testimony
Editing and ethics
Disability, illness, therapy and recovery in life narrative
Environmental biography
Posthuman lives
Gender and sexuality
Secrets and lies

3. Living archives

The archive within: genetics, genomics, neurology, emotions
Archival legacies: remembering and forgetting
Managing archival material: methodologies, policies, selection, metadata
Oral history theory and practice
Life story consent, copyright, constraints
Preserving ephemera
Institutional partnerships
Transnational archives
Transgenerational archives

4. Place and displacement

Translating ‘life’ and lives across cultures and languages
Indigenous lives
Diasporic lives
Immigrant lives
Transnational lives
Minoritarian life narrative
Genealogies
Witnessing publics

5. Media and celebrity

Press, radio, television, film and music biographies
The media as biographer
Creating notoriety
The changing nature of fame
Collective memory and biography
Refashioning identity: bodies in the media
Confessional modes in public life
Obituaries

6. Digital identity and social media

Cyberlives
Auto/graphics
Social media audiences
Digital relationships, communities, intimacy
Epistolarity before and after email
Avatars, animation, machinima
Transfigured bodies
Pocket lives: iPhone, iPad, Android, apps

7. Creative life narrative

New hybrid forms of life narrative
Approaches to constructing the autobiographical self
Memoirs, journals, diaries, reflections
Autoethnography
Scholarship versus creative practice
Fantasy lives
Personal journeys
Digital storytelling

10th World Congress for Nurse Anesthetists

The congress will take place on May 26 - 29, 2012 in Ljubljana, Slovenia

International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists in asscociation with Group of Nurse and Health Technicians in Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Transfuziology part of Nurses and Midwives Association of Slovenia

Main topics:

Multiple trauma patient
Simulation
Transfusion
Pain management in the pediatric patient
New techniques and drugs
Flow monitoring
Anesthesia for the elderly
Ecology
Evidence-based nursing
Management and organisation

President of the Congress

Zorica Kardoš, R.N.
Nursing Officer

University Medical Centre Ljubljana
Division of Surgery, Clinical Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Therapy

Zaloška 7
1525 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Phone: +386 1 522 35 60
Fax: +386 1 522 22 34
E-mail: zorica.kardos@kclj.si

Professional Congress Organiser

Ms. Alenka Kregar

Cankarjev dom
Cultural and Congress Centre

Prešernova 10
SI-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia

Phone: + 386 1 241 71 33
Fax: + 386 1 241 72 96
E-mail: alenka.kregar@cd-cc.si