The 2nd Australasian Mental Health and Psychosocial Disasters Conference
Thank you to all of the speakers and delegates involved who made this Conference an enjoyable success.
Presentations from the Conference.
This conference built on the 1st National Psychosocial Response and Recovery Conference run by Queensland Health in November 2007.
The 2008 conference objectives were:
- Inform participants of the state-of-the-art in mental health disaster preparation, prevention, response and recovery
- Provide a forum to share effective strategies, best practices, tools, and existing projects
- Provide foundation knowledge in mental health disaster preparation, prevention, response and recovery
- Identify research and policy needs associated with mental health disaster activities
The Conference was:
- National in focus
- Inclusive of both mental health practitioners and disaster responders who have limited mental health knowledge
- Inclusive of issues of disaster preparation and prevention
- Focused on terrorism, other man-made hazards and natural disasters
Who should attend?
The conference was aimed at both general emergency management, psychosocial and mental health practitioners.
- psychiatrists
- psychologists
- social workers
- human service workers
- mental health nurses
- communications officers & dispatch personnel
- corrections officials
- counselors
- crisis workers
- disaster response personnel
- educators and school employees
- emergency service administrators
- EMTs/paramedics
- faith-based disaster support
- fire-fighters
- grief counselors
- law-enforcement officers
- military personnel
- peer support organisers and leaders
- physicians, nurses, and medical facility staff
- professional chaplains & clergy
- risk managers
- security professionals
- suicidologists
- victim’s advocate
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