Program 2009 APS Annual Conference
30 September – 4 October 2009, Darwin Convention Centre, NT

as at 14 September 2009

Wednesday 30 September  | Thursday 1 October  | Friday 2 October  | Saturday 3 October  | Sunday 4 October

Friday 2 October 2009

Meeting Rooms

Time

Auditorium 2

Meeting Rm 2

Meeting Rm 3

Meeting Rm 4

Waterfront Rm 1

Waterfront Rm 2

Waterfront Rm 3

Posters

Exhibition Hall

7.30am – 5pm

Registration and Exhibition

8.30 – 10am

Professional Practice Individual Papers

Australian primary mental health care:  the Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care program

Basillios, B.

Independently practicing psychologists experiences of Primary Mental health care reforms in Australia

Fletcher, J.

The Mental Health Professionals Network. Working together, working better

Nicholas, A. (C)

The Psychology of George Gurdjieff: implications for psychotherapy

Cescato, M.

Child, Adolescent & Family Individual Papers

Enablers and barriers to binge drinking in young adults

Statham, D. (C)

Impact of Parent – Adolescent Conflict on Adolescent’s Psychological Development

Pajkic, I.

Childhood-adolescent experience and self-harming behaviour

Walker, G.

Mildred, H.

Parental socialisation of threat based cognitive and biological processes in paediatric anxiety disorders

Waters, A.

Early Career Research Award Recipient

Teaching, Learning & Psychology Interest Group Individual Papers

Massification and graduate attributes: Two drivers toward a wikied solution.

Billany, R.

Undergraduate psychology education:  should we be considering new objectives?

Cranney, J.

Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Education Award Recipient

What do high school teachers of psychology think about the discipline, its value, and their relationship to traditional “academic” psychology and its practitioners: some preliminary data

Provost, S. (C)

Psychology and the Environment Interest Group Forum

The Role of Psychologists in today’s Environment Movement and in Corporate Social Responsibility

Saunders, P. (C)

Earl, J.

Reser, J.

Hall, R.

Burke, S.

Gridley, H.

Counselling Individual Papers

(CCOUN)

Activating core maladaptive emotion schemes utilising Process-Experiential Emotion-Focused Therapy (PEEFT) for the treatment of depression with young people

Harte, M. (C)

The development of therapeutic intuition

Rich, B.

(CCOUN) Counselling College Forum

Practice forum in counselling psychology: catalysts for change.

Hosie, E.

Chronic Illness and Alcohol Use Individual Papers

(CHP)

Young Carers: Investigation of the psychosocial impact of care giving on youth who have a parent with an illness or disability

Pakenham, K. (C)

(CHP)

Comparing the health burden of eating-disordered behaviour and overweight in women

Mond, J.

(CHP)

Physical activity, alcohol use and psychological health of men aged 16-44 living in metropolitan and regional South Australia.

Rudnik, E.

The Northern Territory Alcohol Court: clinical perspectives and client outcomes.

O’Reilly – Martinez, R.

(COP) Organisational Psychology College Individual Papers

Research in progress: An investigation of the influences of Cognitive Styles, Self Efficacy and Locus of Control on levels of Occupational Stress and Satisfaction in employees of different professions

McGeoch, M.

The influence of fatigue and mood on cognitive failures

Fogarty, G. (C)

Chaney, S.

Developing a model of organisational identification

Pearson, F.

Poster Session 6

9 – 11am

Health and Body Image Posters

Hawkins, I.

APS Prize Winner

Lewis, V.

Woods, L.

(CHP) Health College Posters

Dettwiller, P.

Surti, H.

10 – 10.30am

Morning Tea

10.30am- 12 noon

Fellow’s invited address

Frydenberg, E. & Waring, T. (C)

Cancer Control — Opportunities for Behaviour Change

Sanson-Fisher, R.

Sexual Dysfunction Symposium

Measurement and Modes of Female Sexual Dysfunction

McCabe, M. (C)

Conaglen, H.

Conaglen, J.

Teaching, Learning & Psychology Interest Group Symposium

The scholarship of teaching and learning in psychology: Research on innovative practices in feedback and assessment.

Reece, J. (C)

White, F.

Cranney, J.

O'Hara, A.

(CFP) Forensic College Individual Papers

Predictors of burden in older husbands who are providing care for wives with dementia at home

Brown, P. (C)

Peer Relationships and Delinquency: how does the role of peer support for offending change over time?

Lennings, C.

(CSP) Sport College Individual Papers

The Role of Attention in the Relationship between Emotion and Performance in Sport

Vast, R.

(CCOUN) Counselling College Symposium

Counselling psychologists: Identity and practice

Grant, J. (C)

Denham, G.

Arblaster, W.

Mental Illness Individual Papers

Visio-spatial perspective taking in chronic schizophrenia patients

Landgraf, S.

Can't live with it. Can't live without it: A phenomenological study of dissociation

Richardson, H.

Temperamental vulnerability to bipolar disorder: one or two dimensions?

Bullock, B. (C)

Biological rhythms and vulnerability to bipolar disorder: Daily activity rhythms and social rhythms are attenuated in high risk healthy young adults

Bullock, B. (C)

Obesity and Exercise Individual Papers

Executive functions and type of exercise in older women

Helmes, E. (C)

Adaptive Change, Global Motivation, and the Impact of Environmental, Social, and Psychological Factors on Overweight and Obesity.

Thomas, K.

Influences of personality, motivations, and wellbeing on body modification behaviour.

Johnson, M.

Speeded detection and cognitive avoidance of food cues in restrained eaters

Kemps, E.

Poster Session 7

11.30am – 2pm

Mental Illness Posters

Collett, J.

APS Prize Winner

Gardner, T.

Hiles, S.

APS Prize Winner

Rice, S.

Russell-Smith, S.

APS Prize Winner

12noon – 1pm -

Keynote Speaker – Professor Gillian Rhodes University of Western Australia

Adaptation and after-effects in normal and disordered face perception

1 – 2pm

LUNCH

Fellows Lunch

Teaching,  Learning and Psychology Interest Group Annual General Meeting

College of Forensic Psychologists

Annual General Meeting

College of Counselling Psychologists

Annual General Meeting

2 – 3.30pm

Clinical Psychology Symposium

Controversies and debates regarding the Better Access Initiative: Evidence-based practice and clinical interventions in the community

Lynd-Stevenson, R. (C)

Carey, T.

Rickwood, D.

Fellows

Teaching, Learning & Psychology Interest Group Forum

Identification of cross-disciplinary capacity for enhancing the professional education of multidisciplinary mental health practitioners

Morrissey, S. (C)

Davidson, G.

Reddy, P.

Restraint and Seclusion Strategies in Disability Symposium’

Issues in the use of restraint and seclusion strategies in the disability sector

McVilly, K. (C)

Webber, L.

Stokes, D.

Mathews, R.

Lovelock, H.

(CCOUN) Counselling College Symposium

Personality and consequential mental health outcomes

Heaven, P. (C)

Ciarrochi, J.

Bore, M.

Wall, C.

Health Promotion Forum

Is there A Role for Psychologists and Mental Health Professionals in Addressing Nicotine Addiction and Facilitating Smoking Cessation?

Bowman, J. (C)

Wye, P.

Terry, M.

Borland, R.

Organisational Psychology Individual Papers

(COP)

Measuring women’s attitudes to building a career

Smith, P.

(COP)

Predicting job satisfaction and depression at work: How important are work-related factors?

Machin, M.A. (C)

Mapping the linear relationships among stressors, mediators, and coping

Moore, K.

The importance of psychological well-being in organisational settings: Moving beyond the pleasure principle

Burns, R.

Poster Session 8

2.30 – 4.30pm

Mental Health Posters

Brummert Orrego, H.
Warburton, W.

Mannion, G.

APS Prize Winner

Northfield, S.

Phillips, W.

Power, M.

Lammi, E.

Sandquist, K. & Grenver, B.

3.30 – 4pm

Afternoon Tea

4 – 5.30pm

APS AGM: Auditorium 2