Our national conference will provide a great opportunity to engage with national and international thought leaders from across the family of the cognitive behavioural therapies. With this conference we bring together innovative clinical researchers and research clinicians working across the life span. Coming from research, community, and private practice settings, they will present recent evidence-based advances and emerging ideas in their fields for working with cognitions, behaviours, schemas, and emotions for common and complex psychological and health conditions. Thursday and Friday are the Scientific Program, and Saturday is the Workshops - click through for all the details.
This year’s conference theme is “Meaning making with cognitive and behavioural therapies”.
The widespread loss of valued activities and personal agency during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of meaning and meaning making for mental health. Working with meaning has always been at the core of the cognitive and behavioural family of therapies. Despite differences in formulation and therapeutic techniques, the overarching aim of all the cognitive and behavioural approaches is to help people we work with find more hopeful, more purposeful, and less threatening ways to live in the world. Understanding and working with meaning is fundamental to this aim. Meaning is also central to culture and offers a trans-therapeutic and transdiagnostic lens for improving our field’s capacity to meet the changing needs of our diverse Australian community.
Extending the very best traditions of previous conferences, we are bringing together high quality and innovative work using evidence-based methods to identify or work with meaning-making. Meaning comes in many forms, including through language, imagery, behaviour, emotions, and connections. We champion basic mechanism science through to clinical outcome and translational studies across the range of meaning domains as relevant to the cognitive and behavioural family of therapies. We invite you to consider presenting your work at this high-profile, national forum.
Our conference also offers an excellent opportunity to connect or re-connect with colleagues regardless of the stage of your career. You will be able to network with like-minded practitioners, share best-practice tips and tricks and be inspired to shape the future of evidence-based practice. Please join us in Brisbane to hear from leading clinical researchers and leading private practitioners to enrich your knowledge of the latest in evidence-based treatments.
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Ticket prices:
2-day scientific program (Thursday and Friday, 17-18 October 2024):
There are also single-day scientific program tickets available.
Workshops (Saturday 19 October 2024):
Both workshop choices are all-day, and can choose either Emily Holmes on mental imagery with CBT or Melissa Day with a clinician-focussed session for mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for chronic pain, other health conditions and comorbidities.
Date: Friday 18 October 2024
Time: After close of Day 2 (Friday) - 7pm start until 10pm (our space is open to 11pm)
Location: Bar Pacino, 175 Eagle St, Brisbane City, just a short stroll away from the conference venue
Cost: $150
