The International Childhood Trauma Conference is the major event of the Australian Childhood Foundation.
This year’s Conference sees over 15 of the world’s leading speakers and researchers on trauma and attachment assembled in the one spot.
Just some of the renowned experts presenting at this Conference include:
Dan Siegel – Dr Dan Siegel is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine where he is on the faculty of the Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development and the Co-Director of the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (Los Angeles, USA). An award-winning educator, he is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and recipient of several honorary fellowships.
Ed Tronick – from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, is a developmental and clinical psychologist and is recognized internationally as a researcher on infants and children and parenting. He has co-authored and authored more than 200 scientific papers and chapters. Dr. Tronick’s research focuses on social-emotional development and self-regulatory processes in normal and compromised infants and young children and the effects of stress on infants and parents. He developed the Still-Face Paradigm and the Model of Mutual Regulation.
Pat Ogden is a pioneer in somatic psychology and the founder/director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® Institute in Colorado (USA), an internationally recognized school specializing in somatic–cognitive approaches for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder and attachment disturbances.She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and trainer, and first author of Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. Her second book, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment, due out in Spring, 2014, is a practical guide to a integrate Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® interventions into the treatment of trauma and attachment issues. Dr. Ogden is currently developing Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, adolescents and families with colleagues.
Allan Schore – is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioural Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Centre for Culture, Brain, and Development (Los Angeles USA). He is author of four seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self, Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, and The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, is grounded in developmental neuroscience. He is known as the American “John Bowlby”.
