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

  Stream 1

  Mapping Social Identity – Melinda Beckwith

  Stream 2

  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

  Stream 3

  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

  Stream 1

  Extended Care and Integration

  Odyssey House Mingu Yabun Group

  Predictors and outcomes from an adolescent treatment program

  Stream 2

  Becoming a smoke-free TC

  Is a smoke-free therapeutic community

  Healthy Eating and Active Lifestyles

  Stream 3

  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

  Stream 1

  Legal Mandates and Perceived Coercion in Therapeutic Community Treatment

  Odyssey House – MERIT program

  Moral Reconation Therapy (MRT)

  Stream 2

  Stream 3

  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

  Stream 4

  Positive Stories, Positive Outcomes

  Data Collection for Outcome and Impact Measurement

  The Cost Benefits Of Therapeutic Community Programming