CIFS National Conference - March 2012
Friday 9th March + Saturday 10th March
At Parliament House, Cnr. George and Alice Sts, Brisbane
- Professional Development Education -
     
Presenters
Warwick Middleton, MB BS, FRANZCP, MD.
Adjunct Professor at the School of Public Health, La Trobe
University and Associate Professor in Psychiatry,
University of Queensland. He has made substantial
and ongoing contributions to the bereavement and trauma literatures.
In 1996 he was a principal architect in establishing Australia’s
first dedicated unit treating dissociative disorders (the Trauma
and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital). He has been in full time
private practice since 1995. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD).
Dr Middleton recently served on the ISSTD committee revising the
treatment guidelines for dissociative identity disorder. He is co-editor
of a special issue of the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation
DONI WHITSETT, PhD; LCSW
Clinical Professor at
the University of Southern California School of Social
Work. Doni has a private practice and has worked with
cult-involved families and former members for over 15
years. Dr Whitsett is on the Editorial Advisory Board
of the Cultic Studies Journal, published by ICSA, where
she has been a member since 1990. She has presented
on various aspects of trauma and cults both nationally and internationally
and trains mental health professionals in Los Angeles on the psychological
after-effects of cultic abuse and trauma.
LORNA GOLDBERG, M.S.W., A.C.S.W
President of the International
Cultic Studies Association, is a psychoanalyst in private
practice and Dean of Faculty at the New Jersey Institute
of Psychoanalysis. Lorna and her husband Bill, started
a support group for former members in New York in
1976. The group is still operating, 34 years later. Lorna
joined ICSA’s Board of Directors in November 2003 and
became President of ICSA in 2008.
WILLIAM GOLDBERG, M.S.W., A.C.S.W
Psychoanalyst in private
practice, retired from the Rockland County (NY)
Department of Mental Health, where he was the
Director of Training and Staff Development and where
he directed several outpatient clinics and treatment
programs. Bill is presently an Adjunct Instructor in the
Social Work Department of Dominican College. He is
also the ICSA Today’s Mental Health Columnist.
PROFESSOR MANDY MORGAN, BA(Hons) PhD DipEd
Associate Professor in Critical
Psychology and Head of School at the School of Psychology at Massey
University, New Zealand. Mandy is involved in a research programme in
the area of domestic violence services and interventions. She has also
been involved with researching the experiences of adult children from the
Centrepoint community.
DR KERRY GIBSON, MA PhD
Senior lecturer in clinical psychology at the University
of Auckland. She has considerable experience of working clinically
with both adults and children who have experienced trauma. Her research
has focused on the e!ects of trauma on individuals and organisations
and she has published a number of academic papers and two books
in related areas.
GUEST SPEAKER:
SENATOR SUE BOYCE
Sue Boyce has represented Queensland in the Senate since 2007. Prior to entering Federal Parliament, she worked as a journalist and public relations practitioner, a sales and marketing Director, and a Director of the manufacturing company her family has owned since 1926.
She was also President of the Queensland Liberal Women’s Council, and an outspoken disability advocate, having been a President of the Down Syndrome Association of Queensland.
She holds an Honours degree from Monash University and a Masters of Business from the Queensland University of Technology, and is a Fellow and Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
She is the mother of three adult children.
SPECIAL GUEST:
SENATOR NICK XENOPHON
In a speech to the Senate
on 17 November 2009, Sen. Xenophon aired myriad shocking cases of
psychological and other abuse. Since then, he has worked
to provide a venue for complaint for similar cases; and to
end effective community subsidy of groups that harm their members.
"Ultimately, this is not about religious freedom. In Australia there are no limits on what you can believe. But there are limits on how you can behave. It is called the law, and no one is above it."
More info is available at Senator Xenophon's website.
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