Optional Pre-Symposium Workshops

Four workshops will be held at the Symposium venue on Monday 30 August 2010.

Workshop Fees

Half Day (one workshop):
$72.50 (includes morning or afternoon tea)
Full Day (both workshops):
$120.00 (includes morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea)

Workshops can be booked by completing the relevant section of the registration form.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. Please note these fees are in addition to the registration fee for the Symposium.

Designing Community Action Research to Advance Local Alcohol Policy

Professor Tim Stockwell

Professor Tim Stockwell Director, Centre for Addictions Research of BC and Co-Leader of the BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Network
Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Canada

Date:
Monday 30 August 2010
Time:
0900 – 1200
Venue:
Orion Room, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

This workshop will start with an introduction, giving an overview of strategies and underlying principles that have some supportive evidence and then introducing the challenge of how to bridge the gulf between local practice and current evidence. Some examples, several from my time in Australia and several from here in Canada, will be given describing the reasons for choosing the local action research in question, presenting the results and describing the dissemination and subsequent policy impacts. The second half will involve groups working on specific topic areas. Each group will elect a chair and a rapporteur and will develop a plan for a local action project outlining objectives, methods and dissemination plan – as well as partnerships to support the project.

Breaking the Cycle of Failure by Taking a Reinforcing Approach

Dr Martin Iguchi

Dr Martin Iguchi Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health Sciences
UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles

Date:
Monday 30 August 2010
Time:
0900 – 1200
Venue:
Pleiades Room, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

Education Objectives

  • Learning how to create a reinforcing clinical environment that honours priorities established by the participant
  • Learning how to apply basic principles of behaviour change that we regularly overlook
  • Learning how to involve communities in the reinforcing process
  • Learning how to integrate quality control into our care system.

Strengths and Limitations of Harm Reduction

Professor Neil McKeganey

Professor Neil McKeganey Professor and Director Centre for Drug Misuse Research
University of Glasgow, Scotland

Date:
Monday 30 August 2010
Time:
1300 – 1600
Venue:
Orion Room, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

The aim of this workshop will be to look at how harm reduction and abstinence based treatment approaches can be effectively combined. The workshop will focus on the need to combine these contrasting approaches in practice, and participants will be able to discuss what they see as the practical impediments to facilitating a closer working relationship between the two approaches.

The Ethics of Harm Reduction and Treatment Innovation

Dr Alex Wodak

Dr Alex Wodak Director, Alcohol and Drug Service, St Vincent's Hospital
Victoria

Date:
Monday 30 August 2010
Time:
1300 – 1600
Venue:
Pleiades Room, Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

The objectives of the workshop are to assist participants to reduce the health, social and economic harms resulting from psychoactive drugs.