Program 2008 APS Annual Conference (updated 16/9/08) 23 – 27 September 2008, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart

Tuesday 23 Sept | Wednesday 24 Sept | Thursday 25 Sept | Friday 26 Sept | Saturday 27 Sept

Thursday 25 September

Meeting Rooms

Time

Concert Hall

Ballroom 1

Ballroom 2

Ballroom 3

Chancellor Room 6

Harbour View Room 1

Harbour View Room 2

Poster sessions

8am – 5pm

Registration and Exhibition

8.30 – 10am

(CCLIN) Clinical College Forum Vines, R.F. (C) Primary Care Psychology in regional, rural and remote Australia: new developments under COAG Vines, R. Campbell, T. Roufeil, L.

Private Practice Forum Ernst, B. (C) Private Practice Forum Ernst, B. Stokes, D. Stevens, B. O’Kelly, M.

Women and psychology Individual Papers O’Brien, M. (C) Exploring the influence of psychological factors on breastfeeding duration: Phase 1, perceptions of mothers and clinicians O’Brien, M. Exploring the influence of psychological factors on breastfeeding duration: Phase 2, the quantitative enquiry Chan, A. The effect of counterfactual priming on women’s decisions regarding mammography screening Courtney, L. Australian Baby Boom Career Women Reject ‘Retirement’ and Embrace ‘Re-evolvement’

ADHD Forum Clarke, A.R. (C) The underarousal model of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: How accurate is our understanding of this dysfunction? Clarke, A. Barry, R. McCarthy, R. Selikowitz, M.

Exercise Individual Papers Schwerkolt, C.A. Exercise and stress: Underlying commonalities and differences Caltabiano, M.L. Social comparison processes, prototypes and exercise Wilson, L. Habitat: a Longitudinal Multilevel Collaborative Study of Physical Activity and Health in Mid-Age Men and Women Wilson, P.H. (C) Objective tests of movement imagery predict movement skill performance

(CCOUN) Counselling College Individual Papers Cook, R. (C) Evaluation of the Swin E-Counselling service: One year following implementation Simmonds, J. The research evidence base of counselling psychology Ward, S.A ‘Do you see what I see?’ Service Evaluation: An exploration & critique from the Client Voice perspective Barrett-Lennard, G.T. The plural human self under study: Development and early results from the Contextual Selves Inventory

Poster Session 8 Cognitive Posters Crowe, S. (C) Baker, R. Word-length effects in backward serial recall and the remember/know task Vanags, T. Verbal Overshadowing: Understanding the phenomenon does make a difference Bogdanovs, J.L. Relationships between working memory and reading comprehension in primary school children using self-paced and computer-paced working memory measures

10 – 10.30am

Morning Tea

10.30am- 12 noon

Better Access to Mental Health Care Forum Littlefield, L. (C) The benefits and issues for psychologists providing services under government-funded mental health initiatives Lovelock, H.

(CCLIN) Clinical College Symposium Khawaja, N. (C) Cultural Competency Stewart, H. Khawaja, N. Sullivan, K. Mak, A.

(CCOM) Psychology and Women Symposium Gridley, H. (C) Leading change at the margins: doing feminist research with social justice in mind Gridley, H. Kruss, J. Northfield, S.

Rehabilitation Forum Craig, A. (C) Psychological practice implications of the development of a statewide guide for the psychosocial care of people with spinal cord injury Craig, A. Nicholson Perry, K.

Sleep Individual Papers Fuller, T. (C) Perceptions of compared with beliefs about sleep: The merits of an illness perception questionnaire for sleep problems Bullock. B. Circadian rest/activity rhythms as predictors of mood in a small sample of outpatients with bipolar disorder Lederman, L. The role of illness perceptions in sleep disturbance and daytime dysfunction in lupus

Individual Papers Arcuri, A. (C) Psychotherapists’ handling of sexual attraction to clients: a grounded theory Aidman, E. Co-action in Human and Autonomous Platform Teams: A Dynamical Field Approach Shaw, R. Interference in visual memory for abstract stimuli and everyday objects Copping, A. Modelling the experience of trauma in a White-Australian sample

Albert Ellis Symposium Brabin, P. (C) Albert Ellis: A tribute to the grandfather of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Bernard, M. O’Kelly, M. Brabin, P.

Poster Session 9 Neuropsychology Posters Crowe, S. (C) Morris, L. Executive function as a predictor of driving behaviour among young drivers Davey, G. Interhemispheric asymmetries in the processing of biological motion cues Wijesuriya, N. Neurophysiological changes associated with Spinal Cord Injury: A study of brain activity and cognitive function Rogers, M.A. Trauma victims with PTSD with smaller amygdale than those without PTSD Cashion, L. All norms are not created equal: Differences in sustained attention in urban and regional Australian children – the Melbourne Effect Jayasinghe, K. The horizontal and vertical components of apparent length: Distal spatial perception and the Müller-Lyer illusion Provost, S. Effects of ADHD and medication status on contingency awareness and behaviour in an incidental learning task

12noon – 1pm -

Keynote Speaker: Professor Lea Pulkkinen Personality – a resource or risk for successful development

1 – 2pm LUNCH

Rehabilitation Interest Group AGM

2 – 3.30pm

(CCLIN) Clinical College Forum Helmes, E. (C) The role of evidence-based assessment in evidence-based practice Helmes, E. Hunsley, J.

Prof Practice Individual Papers Humphreys, L The assessment and upgrade of Practice Management Standards within a university-based clinical training unit. Nicholas, A The Indicator for Intervention Pilot Study: A Snapshot from Psychology Mathews, R. (C) Non-Directive Pregnancy Support Counselling MBS item: How is it working for perinatal women? Wilson, L. Understanding the Role of Risk in Psychologists’ Willingness and Intention to Integrate Complementary and Alternative Therapies in Psychological Practice

(CCOM) Community College Individual Papers Zinkiewicz, L. (C) Predicting participation in a volunteering event amongst church members: Ingroup identification and the theory of planned behaviour Tutchener, C. Telling it like it is: The lived experience of obesity-related stigma O’Grady, L. Community Psychology in schools – challenges and hope Plontz, A.M. The well-being of adolescent refugees during the first two years of resettlement in Melbourne, Australia

Emotional Literacy Symposium Larkins, G.M (C) Coping and Emotional Literacy in Young People Eacott, C. Frydenberg, E. Nikolaidis, K. Andrews, M. McKenzie, V. Larkins, G.

Neuropsychology Individual Papers Hosford, D.J. An investigation of the impact of psychological trauma on the neuropsychological functioning of school aged children Morris, L. Relationships between age, executive function and driving behaviour Sarandrea, A. (C) Multiple psychological approaches to aid community integration following traumatic brain injury: A case study

(CCOUN) Counselling College Symposium McVea, C. (C) Practice-based evidence for the application of Psychodrama Group Work to Healing Painful Emotional Experience McVea, C. Colwell, J. Mehrtens, J. Hamilton-Roberts, J.

Spirituality Symposium Miner, M. (C) Spirituality and psychological health Ghobary, B. Miner, M. Proctor, M.

Poster Session 10 CCLIN) Clinical College Posters Moore, K. (C) Mead, M.