2009 ANZATSA Conference Program

Program Overview as of 10 October 2008

The abstract submission deadline is 12 December 2008.  To submit an abstract go www.anzatsa.org/conf/call.html

Detailed Program

A detailed program will be available in December, with the final program expected in January 

Symposia

A number of symposia will be presented at the conference, these will consist of a number of experts in the field, focusing on the issues related to the conference theme ‘Safeguarding Human Rights’.  There will be an opportunity for interaction with the audience. They will be discussing the following topics:

• Indigenous Community Intervention  
• Legal Issues - Therapeutic Jurisprudence

(Speakers will be listed when these are confirmed)

Committee

Narci Sutton, Convenor, NSW Department of Corrective Services
Astrid Birgden, Victorian Offender Treatment Association
Rachel Hart, NSW Department of Corrective Services
Katherine Sahm, Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abuses
Katie Seidler, Private practice
Chris Lennings, Private practice
Gerard Webster, Private practice
John Brown, Private practice
Emma Collins, Private practice
Don Mortensen, The STOP Trust
Ian Lambie, University of Auckland

(Click HERE for more information about Committee Members)

Key Note Speakers

International Invited Speakers

Suzanne Brown-McBride

Suzanne Brown-McBride began her work on behalf of sexual assault victims in 1991 as a community education specialist and advocate.  Since 1997, Suzanne has served as the Executive Director of two statewide associations of rape crisis programs.  Over her career, Suzanne has focused her efforts on the development of effective public policy related to sexual victimization, the supervision of sex offenders, and community responses to violence.  Suzanne is a gubernatorial appointee and Chair of the California Sex Offender Management Board. She is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the National Sexual Violence Resource Center (www.nsvrc.org), a Board Member of the Council of State Governments Justice Center (www.justicecenter.csg.org) and the National Alliance to End Sexual Violence (www.naesv.org).  Suzanne was honored to receive the “Outstanding Contribution to Victim Services Award” from the National Crime Victim’s Law Institute (www.ncvli.org), “The Governor’s Crime Victim Advocacy Award” from Governor Schwarzenegger and the “Fay Honey Knoff Award” from the California Coalition on Sexual Offending (www.ccoso.org).

Tony Ward

Tony Ward, PhD, MA, DipClinPsyc, is a clinical psychologist by training and has been working in the clinical and forensic field since 1987. He was formerly Director of the Kia Marama Sexual Offenders' Unit at Rolleston Prison in New Zealand, and has taught both clinical and forensic psychology at Victoria, Canterbury, and Melbourne Universities. He is currently Professor of Clinical Psychology and the Director of Clinical Training at Victoria University of Wellington. He is an associate editor of ANZATSA's journal (Sexual Abuse in Australia and New Zealand: An Interdisciplinary Journal) and he is also an associate editor of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment and Legal and Criminological Psychology. Professor Ward is on the editorial board of many others. His research interests fall into four main areas: rehabilitation models and issues, cognition and sex offenders, the problem behaviour process in offenders, and ethical issues in forensic psychology. He has over 240 academic publications and his latest books include 'Rehabilitation: Beyond the risk paradigm' (Routledge, 2007) and 'Morals, rights, and practice in the human services' (Jessica Kingsley, 2009)

Robin Wilson

Robin J. Wilson is a researcher, educator, and psychologist who received his Ph.D. in Applied Cognitive Science from the University of Toronto in 1996. He has worked with sexual and other offenders in hospital, correctional, and private practice settings for over 20 years. He is presently the Clinical Director of the Florida Civil Commitment Center in Arcadia, Florida. Robin’s current interests are focused on the collaborative model of risk management and restoration in community settings. He has published and presented widely on the diagnosis and treatment of social and sexual psychopathology, and is a past recipient of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers' (ATSA) Graduate Research Award. He is presently the Editor of the ATSA Forum.

Workshops

Several workshops will be run in conjunction with the ANZATSA Conference.  The workshop topics and speakers will be confirmed by December.