ATCA Conference 13 – 16 October 2014

The Crowne Plaza, Coogee, Sydney, NSW

TCs: Positive Journey – Positive Outcomes focuses on the evidence-base underpinning the TC model, the positive journey of people through TC treatment and their stories of successful outcomes.

Conference Handbook

ATCA Presentations

The 2014 conference presentations that are currently available are linked below as PDF presentations.

• Day 1 Tuesday 14 October

  Longitudinal trajectories of heroin use – Professor Maree Teesson

  Treatment of Co-existing Depression and Substance Use – Professor Amanda Baker

  Therapeutic Communities in Europe – Dirk Vandevelde

  Bhutan and beyond – John Howard

  WHOS experience – Jo Lunn

  Development of systemic research – Gerard Byrne

  TCs: Specific factors related to positive outcome – Lynne magor-Blatch

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  Mapping Social Identity – Melinda Beckwith

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  WHOS supporting clients with PTSD – Jo Lunn

  A Ten Foot High Barbed Wire Fence – Linda Beltrame and Trent Rees

  The Healthy Recovery Study – Peter Kelly

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  De kiem improvement makes a difference – Dirk Vandevelde

   

  Day 2 Wednesday 15 October

  Issues and Sustainability of the Aboriginal

  Tobacco and TCs- Fraternising with the Enemy

  Sports people behaving badly

  Drugs in Sport, Performance and Image Enhancing Drugs

  Panel Discussion – Alcohol: changing cultures, addressing needs: The good, the bad and the ugly

  Gino Vumbaca

  Michael Thorn

   

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  Extended Care and Integration

  Odyssey House Mingu Yabun Group

  Predictors and outcomes from an adolescent treatment program

   

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  Becoming a smoke-free TC

  Is a smoke-free therapeutic community

  Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles

   

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  A Grief Tree Model

   

  Day 3 Thursday 16 October

  2015 Auckland New Zealand

  Development of a quality framework model for the AOD sector

  Not your average Standard – TC Accreditation

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  Legal Mandates and Perceived Coercion in Therapeutic Community Treatment

  Odyssey House – MERIT program

  Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)

   

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  Fostering a mother child relationship as part of the AOD rehabilitation process

  Women with drug and alcohol use have higher rates of trauma and abnormal pap smears

  Rethinking the Parameters of Community- Establishing Therapeutic Communities in Greenfields Locations

   

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  Positive Stories, Positive Outcomes

  Data Collection for Outcome and Impact Measurement

  The Cost Benefits Of Therapeutic Community Programming