The 2023 SCAP Conference Program

Program: The 2023 School Counsellors & Psychologists (SCAP) Conference

No straight lines in mental health

Venue

30 Royal Pde, Parkville

Conference Opening & Welcome
Keynote Presentation: Bringing personality disorder in from the cold: Why personality disorder is a fundamental concern for youth mental health
Professor Andrew Chanen, Chief of Clinical Practice and Head of Personality Disorder Research at Orygen in Melbourne, Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne

Keynote Presentation: Innovating Mental Health: Regulating Cognitive and Emotional States in Virtual Reality
Adam Barton, Liminal
10.45am - 11.45am: The Dax Gallery Guided Tour (for those registered for the tour - option 1)
The Many Paths of Wellbeing
Michele Chevalley Hedge, A Healthy View

Keynote Presentation: Resisting, Reckoning and Responding: A World First Theory of Young Men’s Anxiety
Krista Fisher, Orygen, Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne
Developing a National Voluntary Mental Health and Wellbeing Check-in for Australian School Students
Professor Ron Rapee & Dr Lauren McLellan

Keynote Presentation: Cannabis-based medicines, psychedelics and MDMA: viable interventions for youth mental health?
Professor Iain McGregor, Professor of Psychopharmacology and Academic Director of the Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics in the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney
Day Close

Naughton's Hotel: Designated Meeting Place for 2023 SCAP Delegates
43 Royal Pde, Parkville
Please plan on joining us; an opportunity to relax and enjoy the social and professional interaction of meeting other colleagues.

Keynote Presentation: Young people, suicide prevention & social media
Professor Jo Robinson & Dr Louise La Sala
School Based Initiatives in Mental Health: The role of mental health practitioners in developing and delivering evidence based social-emotional and wellbeing programs in schools
Co-presented by Michelle Brown, St Mary's College, & Jo Cains, Cardijn College, SA

Keynote Presentation: Therapists and ‘Messy’ Heart-sink Moments during Covid Pandemic in Clinics, Schools and Families: Relational Rupture-Repair Cycles
Dr George Halasz, consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at School of Psychology and Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University
11.15am - 12.15pm: The Dax Gallery Guided Tour (for those registered for the tour - option 1)
Keynote Presentation: How our brains learns and guess
Associate Professor Marta Garrido

Title: Beyond tolerance: Empowering young people as inclusive allies
Lucy Thomas, Project Rockit
Keynote Presentation: Thinking and talking about gender and sexuality at school: Resisting the loud silences
Dr Victoria Rawlings, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow in the University of Sydney School of Education and Social Work
Conference Close