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Format of Sessions of Congress
Consumer Involvement in the Congress
The International Donald CohenTravel Fellowship Program
Social Program
Cultural Program

Focus on the 17^th Congress

Our Overall Theme: Nurturing Diversity
Our theme opens for exploration concerns and new knowledge critical in the field today. It invites us to confront challenges to the psychological well being and human rights of infants, children, young people, and families across the world. It enables us to share experiences, research and emerging solutions across boundaries of culture, society and workplace.

Bringing together the perspectives of professionals and researchers, of consumers, parents and carers, and of young people themselves, the Congress will encompass many dimensions of diversity:

Concerns at individual, family, community or cultural levels

Issues at all developmental stages, from infancy through to late adolescence

Innovative theory, research and reviews of clinical practice

The full spectrum of clinical service - assessment, treatment and preventive approaches

All forms of psychiatric and developmental difficulty

All forms of environmental and social challenge to the mental health and human rights of the young

The Keynote and State of the Art addresses will set the scene for exploration, discussion and debate in a range of symposia, individual papers, forums, workshops and plenary sessions.

The Congress Book
Entitled "Child and Adolescent Mental Health: An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk and Resilience Factors", the exciting monograph to be distributed to all delegates in association with the Congress comprises a collection of papers edited by Elena Garralda and Martine Flamant. The leading contributors addressing biological risk and resilence factors are Johannes Hebebrand (Germany) and Ian Goodyer (Britain). The leading authors addressing psychosocial factors are Thomas O'Connor (USA), Ernesto Caffo (Italy), Raija-Leena Punamaki (Finland), and Amira Seif El-Din (Egypt).

Language of the Congress
The language of the 17^th Congress of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions will be English.

Keynote Speakers

Peter Fonagy
Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis
University College London, UK

Ian Goodyear
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
University of Cambridge, UK

Scott W Henggeler
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina, USA

James F Leckman
Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry and Paediatrics
Yale University School of Medicine, USA

Helmut Remschmidt
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Philipps-University, Germany

Matt Sanders
School of Parenting and Family Support
University of Queensland, Australia

Fiona Stanley
Director, Telethon Institute for Child Health Research
Australia

Hans Steiner
Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford University, USA

Charles Zeanah
Professor, Tulane School of Medicine
New Orleans, USA

State of the Art Speakers

Tom Anders
Vicky Anderson
Colette Chiland
Mark Dadds
Maurice Eisenbruch
Larry Greenhill
David Hay
Frank Oberklaid
George Patton
Joseph Rey
Tuula Tamminen
Bruce Tonge

Intended Speakers / Chairpersons - Just a Beginning!!

A

Allen, Kathleen (Australia)
Aiello, Chantal (Australia)
Anderson, Vicki (Australia)
Anthony, E. James (USA)
Azzopardi, Silvia (Australia)

B

Ball, Robyn (Australia)
Beagley, Leanne (Australia)
Bekos, Dimitra (Australia)
Belfer, Myron (USA)
Bilenberg, Niels (Denmark)
Bilszta, Justin (Australia)
Bolognini, Monique (Switzerland)
Bolte, Sven (Germany)
Bor, William (Australia)
Boutrel, Benjamin (USA)
Bowdein, Michael (Australia)
Brann, Peter (Australia)
Brereton, Avril (Australia)
Bretherton, Lesley (Australia)
Brown, Sandra (USA)
Bukstein, Oscar ( USA)
Burns, Justine (Australia)
Burston, Wendy (Australia)

C

Caffo, Ernesto (Italy)
Caplan, Gerald (Israel)
Carrol, Juliana (Australia)
Celia, Salvador (Brazil)
Chapman, Megan (Australia)
Chidabaram, Prakash (Australia)
Chiland, Colette (France)
Cohen, Phyllis (USA)
Cobham, Vanessa (Australia)
Coburn, Carolyn (Australia)
Collier, Anthony (Australia)
Corcos, Maurice (France)
Cowling, Vicki (Australia)
Cross, Gillian (Australia)
Crouch, Wendy (Australia)

D

Dean, Suzanne (Australia)
Deas, Deborah (USA)
De Bruin, Esther (The Netherlands)
De Guio, Anne-Lyse (Australia)
Dellaportas, Maree (Australia)
De Nijs, Pieter (The Netherlands)
Dhossche, Dirk (USA)
Dieleman, Gwen (The Netherlands)
Dierckx, Bram (The Netherlands)
Dinah, Sarah (Australia)
Dissanayake, Cheryl (Australia)
Doepfner, M. (Germany)
Dorries, Valda (Australia)
Dossiter, David (Australia)
Downey, Laurel (Australia)
Duketis, E. (Germany)

E

Efron, Daryl (Australia)
El Din, Amira Seif (Egypt)
Enokiko, Fusako (Japan)
Erol, Nese (Turkey)
Evans, Neil (Australia)

F

Fayyad, John (Lebanon)
Ferdinand, Robert (The Netherlands)
Flament, Martine (Canada)
Fonagy, Peter (United Kingdom)
Foroucher, Nima (United Kingdom)
Franich, Candice (Australia)
Fudge, Elizabeth (Australia)
Fuentes, Joaquin (Spain)

G

Garcia-Moreno, Dolores (USA)
Garvin, Sue (Australia)
Gassman, M. (Australia)
Geoghegan, Kaye (Australia)
Geraghty, Kerry (Australia)
Ghozlan, Eric (France)
Gillberg, Christopher (Sweden)
Godfrey, Celia (Australia)
Goodyer, Ian (United Kingdom)
Gordon, Robert (Australia)
Gowers, Simon (United Kingdom)
Grady, Jacqueline (Australia)
Greaves-Lord, Kirstin (The Netherlands)
Grimwade, Jo (Australia)

H

Haemmerle, Patrick (Switzerland)
Halasz, George (Australia)
Halfon, Olivier (Switzerland)
Hanssen Bauer, Ketil (Norway)
Hattab, Yosse (Israel)
Havighurst, Sophie (Australia)
Hay, David (Australia)
Haydon, Karen (Australia)
Hazel, Philip (Australia)
Heneggler, Scott (USA)
Herba, Catherine (The Netherlands)
Herbrecht, E. (Germany)
Heyerdahl, Sonja (Norway)
Hill, Jonathon (Britain)
Hocking, Barbara (Australia)
Holtmann, Martin (Germany)
Hong, Kang-E Michael (Korea)
Hooy, Julie (Australia)
Howlin, Patricia (United Kingdom)
Hughes, Sian (Australia)
Huni, Noreen (REPSSI, Africa)

I

Ichikawa, Hironoby (Japan)

J

Jackson, Annette (Australia)
Jackson, Jen (Australia)
Jacobs, Diane (Australia)
Jensen, Peter S. (USA)
Juriedini, Jon (Australia)

K

Kakooza, Angelina (Uganda)
Kambouridis, Helen (Australia)
Kaminer, Yifrah (USA)
Kocker, Joyce (USA)
Konno, Chizue (Japan)
Kowalenko, Nick (Australia)
Kruger, Andreas (Germany)

L

Laughton, Rosemary (Australia)
Leckman, James (USA)
Lee, Erica (Australia)
Legerstee, Jeroen (The Netherlands)
Leventhal, Bennett (USA)
Levy, Florence (Australia)
Lilley, Peta (Australia)
Lim, Suzanne (Australia)
Liu, Ko-Ping (Taiwan)
Lock, Christine (Australia)
Lubitz, Lionel (Australia)
Luntz, Jennifer (Australia)
Lynch, Marell (Australia)

M

Macfarlane, Aiden (United Kingdom)
Macleod, Alexandra (Australia)
McCann, Karen (Australia)
McMahon, Cathy (Australia)
Malhotra, Savita (India)
Marsch, Lisa (USA)
Martin, Andres (USA)
Martin, Catherine (USA)
Mason, Jo (Australia)
Mawdsley, Allan (Australia)
McDermott, Brett (Australia)
McDowell, Michael (Australia)
McGibben, Lawrence (United Kingdom)
Menahem, Sam (Australia)
Mercadente, Marcos (Brazil)
Merry, Sally (New Zealand)
Michaud, Pierre-Andre (Switzerland)
Mier, Carolyn (Australia)
Milburn, Nicole (Australia)
Milgrom, Jeanette (Australia)
Mohler, Beat (Switzerland)
Moro, Marie-Rose (France)
Moss, Sue (Australia)
Munir, Kerim (USA)

N

Nakayama, Hiroshi (Japan)
Nesa, Monique (Australia)
Newman, Louise (Australia)
Nurcombe, Barry (Australia)

O

O'Brien, Tom (Australia)
O'Callaghan, Michael (Australia)
Ohta, Masataka (Japan)
Omigbodun, Olayinka (Nigeria)
Ono, Yoshiro (Japan)

P

Pattison, Clare (Australia)
Patton, George (Australia)
Paul, Campbell (Australia)
Pawsey, Ric (Australia)
Piha, Jorma (Finland)
Pike, Lizabeth (Australia)
Plastow, Deb (Australia)
Popma, A. (The Netherlands)
Poulakis, Zeffie (Australia)
Poustka, Fritz (Germany)
Prior, Justine (Australia)
Prior, Margot (Australia)
Pullen, Jill (Australia)
Pumariega, Andres (USA)

R

Ralph, Alan (Australia)
Rapee, Ron (Australia)
Raphael, Beverley (Australia)
Raynaud, Jean-Philippe (France)
Remschmidt, Helmut (Germany)
Re, Jenny (Australia)
Rey, Joseph (Australia)
Reid, Carly (Australia)
Rhinehart, Nicole (Australia)
Rice, Jennifer (Australia)
Richdale, Amanda (Australia)
Richter, Linda (South Africa)
Rickards, Katrina (United Kingdom)
Riggs, Paula (USA)
Roberts, Clare (Australia)
Robertson, Brian (South Africa)
Robinson, Phil (Australia)
Robson, Suzanne (Australia)
Roff, Hermione (United Kingdom)
Rohde, Luis Augusto (Brazil)
Romer, Georg (Germany))
Rooney, Rosanna (Australia)
Rosario-Campos, Maria (Brazil)
Rout, Ujjwal (USA)
Rydelius, Per-Anders (Sweden)

S

Sabuncuoglu, Osman (Turkey)
Safier, Ruth (Australia)
Salo, Bob (Australia)
Sanci, Lena (Australia)
Sanders, Matt (Australia)
Saunders, Bela (Australia)
Sawyer, Michael (Australia)
Schaff, Christa (Germany)
Schleimer, Kari (Sweden)
Schmidt, Martin (Germany)
Schmotzer, G. (Germany)
Sewell, Jill (Australia)
Shah, Amitta (United Kingdom)
Sharp, Helen (United Kingdom)
Shirataki, Saadaki (Japan)
Shirataki, Sadaaki (Japan)
Sikorski, John B. (USA)
Simkin, Deborah (USA)
Sleeman, Felicity (Australia)
Smith, Anne (Australia)
Sofronoff, Kate (Australia)
Sondeijker, Frouke (The Netherlands)
Soong, Wei-Tsuen (Taiwan)
Stadler, Christina (Germany)
Stanley, Fiona (Australia)
Steiner, Hans (USA)
Stephan, Philippe (Switzerland)
Storm, Victor (Australia)
Sved-Williams, Ann (Australia)
Swensson, Cyndi (USA)
Szymanski, Ludwik (USA)

T

Tamminen, Tuula (Finland)
Tannock, Rosemary (Canada)
Target, Mary (United Kingdom)
Taylor, Kate (Australia)
Te Bonle Diawar, Marguerite (Cote d'Ivoire)
Thompson, Rachel (Australia)
Thomson-Salo, Frances (Australia)
Tranberg, Heidi (Australia)
Tonge, Bruce (Australia)
Tyano, Samuel (Israel)

U

Upadhyaya, Himanshu (USA)

V

Van der toom, Sonja (The Netherlands)
Van Gastel, Willemijn (The Netherlands)
Van Velsen, Jacqueline (Australia)
Vermeiren, Robert (Belgium)

W

Warnke, Andreas (Germany)
Waysman, Vivienne (Australia)
Westphal, Elizabeth (Australia)
White, Michael (Australia)
Wignall, Ann (Australia)
Wolf, Maryann (USA)
Wright, Beverly (USA)

Y

Yamashita, Hiroshi (Japan)
Yamazaki, Kosuke (Japan)

Z

Zeanah, Charles (USA)
Zepf, Florian (Germany)
Zheng, Yi (China)

Areas to be Explored by Presentations at the Congress

Concerning the Overall Theme: "Nurturing Diversity"

Mental health services in the developed world

Access to mental health services

Children of parents with a mental illness

Children in out of home care

Perspectives on parenting

Mental health services and child welfare

Child psychiatrists in Africa

Indigenous child mental health

Mental health service provision international perspectives

Children in care

Adoption and mental health

Youth participation

Consumer concerns and participation

School based early intervention

Vulnerability to substance abuse

Mental health and child soldiers

Intake process in child and adolescent mental health services

Access to mental health care

Managing difficult relationships

Training paediatricians and child psychiatrists

Child psychoanalysis

Speech pathology and child and adolescent mental health services

Occupational rehabilitation and mental health

Reducing stigma

Group therapy

Day programs

Concerning Specific Problems, Disorders and Conditions

Anxiety in children

Paediatric chronic illness and mental illness

Pervasive developmental disorder

Autism spectrum disorders

ADHD and its frontiers

ADHD and learning disorders

ADHD and traumatic body injuries

ADHD and comorbidity

Emotional trauma

Emotional trauma and natural disasters

Emotional trauma: after the tsunami

Internalizing problems

Eating disorders across the developmental span

Child sexual abuse

Aggression

Mental health symposium on HIV/AIDS

Early intervention for perinatal depression

Adolescent substance use disorders

Adolescent substance use and comorbid mental health

Congenital heart abnormality and mental health

Concerning Methodological and Nosological Approaches

Outcome measurement: International perspectives

Psychotherapy treatment and research

Attachment theory and research

Biological aspects of psychopathology

Ethics of diversity

Phenomenology and neurobiology

Genetics

Neuropsychology

Longitudinal studies

Measurement issues

Format of Sessions of Congress

A stimulating and diverse array of sessions will greet delegates. The Program will provide for challenging discussion and new learning through active participation in sessions. The formats for the different kinds of Congress sessions are described below.

Special Lectures
The Congress will receive the Gerald Caplan Lecture, the Julian Katz Oration and the Winnicott Memorial Lecture.

Keynote Lectures
Each day will feature two keynote lectures at plenary sessions.

State of the Art Lectures
Daily State of the Art Lectures will discuss recent developments and questions in specific areas of critical current interest.

Symposia
Concurrent symposia sessions will involve several papers in a particular area, representing different dimensions of the topic. Usually, the organiser of each symposium will chair the presentations and the resulting discussion among all those attending.

Poster Sessions
Poster presentations will take a central place in the Scientific Program, with Monday, Wednesday and Thursday featuring particular themes.

Workshops
Workshop sessions will engage the active participation of those attending, such that specific learning goals are addressed and achieved by delegates.

Satellite Symposia
Sponsored Satellite Symposia will be organised by pharmaceutical companies in consultation with the Scientific Program Committee.

Consumer Involvement in the Congress

Active involvement in the Congress of young people and of their families will add a new and stimulating dimension to this 17^th IACAPAP Congress.

As in many other countries in recent years, energetic associations and alliances have been formed in Australia by citizens who have received mental health services. Their aims centre upon extending public understanding of mental health issues and advocating for improvements in services. Such action in the child and adolescent mental health arena in Australia has been gathering strength, and professionals are aware of the importance of learning from the experiences of their clients in seeking assistance, and in evaluating the services available. Moreover, the professional field now recognises the relevance of consumer experience in the formulation of government mental health policies, and the critical value of professional-consumer collaboration in arguing for urgently needed improvements.

In this context, in 1997, the national Australian Infant Child Adolescent and Family Mental Health Association (AICAFMHA) was conceived, followed by Mental Health for the Young and their Families: Victorian Group (MHYF VIC) in Victoria in 2000. These organisations are professional-consumer partnerships with a research and advocacy mission. AICAFMHA is a Member of IACAPAP, and both are host organisations contributing to this Congress. They are working hard to facilitate the meaningful participation of young people and their families in the life of the Congress. Phil Robinson is coordinating this effort at the national level, and Allan Mawdsley at the state level. Suzanne Robson is representing the interests and organising activities for families, while Paul Tribe is working with young people making a contribution at the Congress.

The contributions of young people and their families are welcomed throughout the Congress, appropriate support facilities will be made available at the Congress, and funding is available for assistance with registration, travel within Australia or accommodation.

Consumer Issues Stream
Throughout the Congress the Scientific Program features a stream highlighting sessions of substantial concern to consumers, which is expected to be of significant interest to professionals as well. Included will be:

Symposia on issues such as stigma, availability and cost benefits of services, the process of intake in child and adolescent mental health services

Young People's Forum

Families' Forum

Forums on Professional-Consumer Collaboration.

All of these sessions are the result of collaborative projects that are ongoing in Australia.

For more information about this dimension of the Congress, please email: Sue Garvin of AICAFMHA (secretary@aicafmha.net.au) or, if you are in Victoria, Australia, Allan Mawdsley of MHYF VIC (mawdsley@melbpc.org.au)

The International Donald Cohen Travel Fellowship Program

The International Donald Cohen Travel Fellowship Program was established for the 2004 IACAPAP Congress in Berlin, in memory of Donald J. Cohen (1940 - 2001), the former director of the Yale Child Study Centre at Yale University, and former president of IACAPAP, who was a passionate supporter of young researchers and leaders in the field of child and adolescent mental health.

The program will contribute greatly to the 2006 Congress in Melbourne, by again supporting the participation of young practitioners and researchers in the child and adolescent mental health field from all over the world. The program will assist with the travel expenses, accommodation and the Congress registration fee of successful applicants. Exciting mentorship activities at the Congress itself will also be provided to Fellowship recipients.

Young researchers will be aided in coming to Melbourne to present their work for discussion with colleagues in the international community. In many countries, innovative contributions to education and training, or to administrative and organizational change are as critical to advancing the field as scientific research. A requirement for application for the Award is the submission and acceptance of a paper or poster presentation by the Fellowship applicant to the Congress.

Applications are invited from all countries, and recipients will be selected by the Travel Award Selection Committee, formed by members of the IACAPAP Executive Committee, chaired by Andres Martin.

The Program is open to sponsorship, both of a particular nominated individual, and in a general sense. Sponsors are invited to contact Andres Martin directly, at his email address, andres.martin@yale.edu. There may be options for IACAPAP to cost-share with other organizations to facilitate Fellowships.

Young colleagues can apply individually themselves, provided they supply a letter supporting their application from the head of their professional unit or department.

Selection criteria are:

Under 40 years of age

Superior educational and professional record

Scientific quality of presentation offered to the Congress

Submission of materials detail below
Application requirements:

Submit the following documents by email by 1 May 2006 to andres.martin@yale.edu

Application Form (including CV and a brief personal essay)

Brief letter supporting your Application from the head of your professional unit or department

An Abstract of a paper or poster being offered to the Congress
Selection results:
Applicants from all countries will be welcomed, and the decisions of the Selection Committee will be final. All applicants will be notified of results by 1 June 2006.

Social Program

A wonderful range of opportunities are being planned for delegates to enjoy being together at the Congress, and to extend their experience of Melbourne.

Welcome Reception Following the Opening Ceremony
Date: Sunday, 10 September 2006
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Melbourne Convention Centre
Cost: Included for full registered delegates and accompanying partners
Guest Ticket: AUD60.00

Congress Dinner
Date: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Time: 19:00 - 23:00
Venue: National Gallery of Victoria
Cost: AUD125.00
A highlight of the Congress will be the Dinner held at the National Gallery of Victoria, possibly Australia's most visionary art exhibition space. On Tuesday 12 September we will gather at 7.00pm for drinks in the forecourt and progress to dinner in the Great Hall, accompanied by great entertainment. Delegates can choose to attend the dinner for AUD125.00. This promises to be an uplifting occasion.

Pre Congress Dinner Tour Option
Date: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
Time: 18:00 - 19:00
Venue: National Gallery of Victoria
Cost: AUD20.00
If you wish, you can also book to join a predinner Congress showing of the touring Picasso Exhibition which is scheduled at the Gallery in September. Dinner and Tour can be reserved on your Registration Form.

Cultural Program

As well, it will be possible for delegates toexperience some of the special cultural life of Melbourne, depending on their interests. The Congress Organisers Desk will provide information, and may facilitate events and experiences both during and after the Congress. Registrants are asked to indicate their interests on their Registration Form to assist in planning this process. Outstanding offerings are outlined below.

Art Galleries

National Gallery of Victoria: NGV International features art from all over the world, ancient and modern, and is an excellent collection. The Ian Potter Centre, at Federation Square, houses the extensive NGV collection of Australian art, including indigenous art.

Specialist Art Galleries: As well as the exceptional Heidi Museum of Modern Art, and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, galleries dedicated to particular indigenous and other Australian artists are readily accessed in the inner city. Specialist tours may be able to be arranged.

Museums
Australia's wide cultural heritage is represented in a range of museums, including:

The Melbourne Museum - telling a history, beginning with the natural environment and traditional Aboriginal culture, and through the Gold Rush of the 1800s, to modern times; encompasses a world class Children's Museum

The State Library - fascinating historical displays in one of Australia's most elegant Victorian buildings

The Immigration Museum

Scienceworks Museum

The Chinese Museum

Olympics Museum

The Jewish Museum of Australia

Old Melbourne Gaol

Performing Arts Museum

The Maritime Museum

Historical and Sightseeing Tours
Established as a city in 1834, Melbourne is home to a fascinating architectural heritage. Walking tours exploring the history of the city are easily arranged. Otherwise, tram, bus or even Harley tours are available.

Theatre and Nightlife
Melbourne enjoys a very active theatre, concert and club life, from the classics to the avant garde. Jazz, Latin American music, and performances by Melbourne's many cultural groups are all popular. It may be possible to arrange Congress group bookings for certain theatrical or concert events. The Crown Casino and its associated bars and restaurants is just a stone's throw across the River from the Congress venue.

Restaurants
Melbourne is a gourmet's paradise. A myriad of styles and traditions of cuisine abound. It is hoped to organise some group dining experiences, depending on the interests of Congress delegates.

Vineyards and Wine Making
Major wine growing districts, particularly the Yarra Valley, the Mornington Peninsula and the Bellarine Peninsula are close to Melbourne. Specialising in cool climate varieties, the wines produced by the many wineries are considered exceptional.

Parks and Gardens
Victoria is known as the "Garden State" of Australia, and magnificent gardens are at the core of the Melbourne's pride. There are several public gardens within easy reach of the Congress venue. A trip to the nearby Dandenong Ranges takes us to superb Temperate Rainforest, in which beautiful gardens are also nurtured. Ricketts Sanctuary is a particularly special place.

Australian Wildlife
Kangaroo, koala, wallaby, emu, cockatoo and even the elusive platypus can be met at the Melbourne Zoo, and also in a lush bush setting at the Healesville Sanctuary. The Melbourne Aquarium is close by, opposite the Congress venue!

Fiona Stanley

Delivering the Opening Scientific Address

Professor Fiona Stanley AC is the Executive Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY). Named Australian of the Year in 2003, Professor Stanley is an advocate for improving the health and well-being of children and youth in Australia.

Concerned by the increasingly negative trends in the key indicators of child health and well-being, Professor Stanley was a driver of a collaborative partnership between like-minded researchers, practitioners and policy makers that saw the establishment of ARACY in 2002. As a founding board member, she has worked to realise ARACY’s vision of bringing together organisations which are committed to improving outcomes for young people by working in new ways.

Professor Stanley is also the founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Western Australia and holds the position of Professor in the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia.

Peter Fonagy

Peter Fonagy, PhD FBA is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is Consultant to the Child and Family Program at the Menninger Department of Psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psycho-Analytical Society in child and adult analysis. His clinical interests centre around issues of borderline psychopathology, violence and early attachment relationships. His work attempts to integrate empirical research with psychoanalytic theory. He holds a number of important positions, which include Co-Chairing the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and Fellowship of the British Academy. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. His most recent books include Attachment Theory and Psychoanalysis (published 2001 by Other Press), What Works For Whom? A Critical Review of Treatments for Children and Adolescents (with M. Target, D. Cottrell, J. Phillips & Z. Kurtz - published 2002 by Guilford), Psychoanalytic Theories: Perspectives from Developmental Psychopathology (with M. Target - published 2003 by Whurr Publications), Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Mentalization Based Treatment (with A. Bateman - published 2004 by Oxford University Press) and What Works For Whom? A Critical Review of Psychotherapy Research (with A. D. Roth - published 2004 by Guilford).

Ian Goodyer

Ian Goodyer is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge. His research interests are in mood disorders, the role of emotion in behavioural development and the treatment of clinical depression in young people. He has conducted longitudinal and experimental studies into the relations between life events, hormones and psychopathology.

Scott Heneggler

Scott W. Henggeler received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Virginia in 1977. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina and Director of the Family Services Research Center (FSRC). The mission of the FSRC is to develop, validate, and study the dissemination of clinically effective and cost effective mental health and substance abuse services for children presenting serious clinical problems and their families. As such, FSRC projects have included numerous community-based randomized trials with challenging clinical populations (e.g., violent and chronic juvenile offenders, youths presenting psychiatric emergencies, substance abusing juvenile offenders, maltreating families), and dissemination studies for multisystemic therapy and other evidence-based treatments are being conducted in multiple states and nations. The FSRC has received the Annie E. Casey Families Count Award, GAINS Center National Achievement Award, and the Points of Light Foundation President's Award in recognition of excellence in community service directed at solving community problems. Dr. Henggeler has published more than 200 journal articles, book chapters, and books; is on the editorial boards of nine journals; and has received grants from NIMH, NIDA, NIAAA, OJJDP, CSAT, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and others.

James Leckman

James F. Leckman, M.D. is the Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychology and Pediatrics at Yale where he also serves as the Director of Research for the Yale Child Study Center. Dr. Leckman is a world-renowned child psychiatrist and patient-oriented clinical investigator. His peers have regularly selected him as one of the Best Doctors in America. He has been selected on six occasions as the Outstanding Research Mentor by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists. He is the author or edited seven books, published over 300 scientific articles, and received numerous awards and honours.

Helmut Remschmidt

Professor for Child Psychiatry, MD, PhD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Clinical Psychologist, FRCPsych, Head of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Philipps-University, Marburg (Germany), Past-President of IACAPAP.

Main research interests: developmental psychopathology, eating disorders, schizophrenia research, psychiatric genetics, therapy and evaluation research. Editor and co-editor of several scientific journals including Zeitschrift für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Nervenarzt, Monatsschrift für Kriminologie und Strafrechtsreform und Deutsches Aerzteblatt, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, Current Opinion in Psychiatry, Cambridge Monographs in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Editor of the series (in German) "Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry" (currently 70 volumes)

Guest Researcher and Invited Lecturer at many universities in Europe, Israel, Africa, USA, China, Brazil, Thailand, Korea, and Australia.

Matt Sanders

Matthew R Sanders is a Professor of Clinical Psychology, Director of the Parenting and Family Support Centre at The University of Queensland and Founder of the Triple P - Positive Parenting Program, which is being used extensively around the world. He is an experienced clinical researcher in the prevention and treatment of child and adolescent mental health problems. Professor Sanders has received a Distinguished Career Award from the AACBT, an International Collaborative Prevention Research Award from the SPR, and Triple P has twice won the National Violence Prevention Award from the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Australia. He is a Fellow of the AEC and the APS. Professor Sanders appeared as facilitator in the 2005 UK primetime television documentary series "Driving Mum and Dad Mad".

Hans Steiner

Hans Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria and received his Doctor medicinae universalis (Dr. med. univ. = M.D.) from the Medical Faculty of the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1972. He completed his residency in adult Psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, his child and adolescent psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Currently, Dr. Steiner is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Child Psychiatry and Child Development at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He is the Co-Director of the Center for Psychiatry and the Law. He is Director of Education in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. He is particularly interested in increasing diversity among mental health clinicians and researchers.

He is a Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), a Fellow of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP), and the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM). He is an invited member of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). In 2002, he was named Pfizer Visiting Professor to the Department of Psychiatry at Brown University and Visiting Scholar to Loyola University's Department of Pediatrics by the American Psychosomatic Society; In 2003 he was Visiting Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2004, he was Visiting Professor at Howard University, Washington, DC. In 2005 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Ulm, Germany.

Charles Zeanah

Dr Zeanah is Sellars-Polchow Professor of Psychiatry, Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and Vice-Chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He is also Executive Director of the Institute for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Tulane. Dr Zeanah has a longstanding interest in Infant Mental Health, and his research and clinical interests concern the effects of abuse and serious deprivation on young children, parent-child attachment, psychopathology in early childhood, and infant-parent relationships.

Tom Anders

Dr Anders is Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Emeritus) at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute and the current President of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychaitry (AACAP.) He is a graduate of Stanford University School of Medicine (1960). Following a rotating internship at Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC, and 1 year of pediatric residency at Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, he served for 2 years as a flight surgeon and USAF pediatrician in Tripoli Libya (1962-1964). He then completed psychiatry training and psychoanalytic training at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, NY followed by a two-year NIMH research fellowship and subsequent NIMH Career Development Award at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY. He was appointed Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at SUNY/Buffalo in 1972 and then headed Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Stanford University (1974-1984) and Brown University (1985-1992). He joined the faculty of UC Davis as Chair, Department of Psychiatry (1992-1998) and then was appointed Executive Associate Dean of the School of Medicine (1998-2002). He formally retired from the University of California in 2005 but continues an active program of sleep research at the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute.

Dr Anders has had long standing clinical and research interests in the areas of maturation of infant sleep-wake states and pediatric sleep disorders. He is an NIH funded investigator, currently studying sleep-wake patterns and sleep disorders in children with autism, developmental delay without autism and age-matched typically developing children. Married to Connie Bowe, M.D. a pediatric neurologist, they have 3 adult sons and 2 grandchildren, ages 3 and 1.

Vicky Anderson

Director of Psychology and of the Centre for Child Neuropsychological Studies at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne, and Professor of Psychology at The University of Melbourne, Dr Anderson leads groundbreaking research on developmental and acquired brain disorders. She is especially interested in the impact of these disorders on the adjustment of the child and the family.

Colette Chiland

Professor emeritus at René Descartes University of Paris, Psychiatrist-in-chief, Alfred Binet Center, Mental Health Association, 13^th arrondissement de Paris, Training Analyst of the Paris Psychoanalytical Society, Honorary President of the International Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions (IACAPAP) Editor (co-editor, then editor-in-chief) of the Yearbook of the IACAPAP, The Child in His Family, published in English and French (1973-1994).

Mark Dadds

Mark Dadds is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia, and Senior Research Fellow of the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. He was previously Co-Director of the Griffith Adolescent Forensic Assessment and Treatment Centre, and Director of Research in the School of Applied Psychology, Griffith University. He directs several national intervention programs for children, youth, and their families, at risk for mental health problems. These programmes have been implemented in each state in Australia and in Canada, the USA, Belgium, and Holland. He has been awarded over $4M in research funding for his work in clinical child and family mental health. He has been National President of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy, Director of Research for the Abused Child Trust of Queensland, and a recipient of several awards including an Early Career Award from the Division of Scientific Affairs of the Australian Psychological Society and a Violence Prevention Award for the Federal Government via the Institute of Criminology. He has authored 4 books and over 120 papers on child and family psychology. In the last few years he has given invited keynote addresses to international conferences in Mexico, Canada, the UK, the USA, Denmark, Hungary, Austria, and Australia, including multiple invitations to the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.

Maurice Eisenbruch

Maurice Eisenbruch, is Vice-Chancellor's Advisor on Diversity; foundation Director, Institute for Health and Diversity; and Professor of Culture and Health at Victoria University. Dr Eisenbruch received his medical degree in 1972 from the University of Melbourne and completed his training in child and adolescent psychiatry at University of Melbourne teaching hospitals in 1977. He has postgraduate qualifications in psychological medicine, psychology, and child psychiatry (University of Melbourne), medical anthropology (University of Cambridge), and education (Monash University). His research on depressed mothers and their children earned him a doctorate from the University of Melbourne.

During the 1980s Eisenbruch at the University of Cambridge carried out research with Vietnamese refugee families, and at Harvard Medical School developed the concept of 'cultural bereavement' among refugee adolescents. He founded Australia's first cultural consultation service at the Royal Children's Hospital.

During the 1990s he taught medical anthropology at the University of Paris, was Associate Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and led a Research Operation at the National Centre for Scientific Research.

After repatriating to Australia he became foundation Professor of Multicultural Health and Director of the Centre for Culture and Health at the University of New South Wales. His research includes the use of cultural capital in parenting and early interventions and the role of sustained home visiting for Multicultural Families First. In 2005 he moved to Melbourne.

He serves on WHO-EU Task Force on Migrant Friendly Hospitals and Cultural Competence. He has been consultant to UNESCO, WHO, UNFPA, and the EU as an expert on cultural competence and cultural diversity. He has served on executive committees of World Psychiatric Association and World Federation for Mental Health and on boards of international journals such as Social Science & Medicine.

Dr Eisenbruch speaks more than half a dozen languages and thrives on working directly with culturally diverse communities.

Larry Greenhill

Dr Greenhill is Ruane Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatric Psychopharmacology at Columbia University, Director of the New York State Research Unit of Pediatric Psychopharmacology at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the Chief of the Children's Day Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute.

Dr Greenhill currently serves as the principal investigator of three National Institute of Mental Health Grants, including the New York Research Unit of Pediatric Psychopharmacology-Psychosocial Interventions (RUPP-PI), the New York State Psychiatric Institute site of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA Study) Follow-up Study, the Preschool ADHD Follow-up Study (PATS Study) of Methylphenidate Safety and efficacy in preschool children with ADHD. He completed an investigator-initiated R01 NIMH-sponsored grant to complete Biological Studies in Suicidal Adolescent (BSSA) inpatient study of central serotonin metabolites in depressed adolescent inpatient suicide attempters, which serves as the inspiration for his current RUPP-PI 5 year NIMH grant project, Treatment of Adolescent Suicide Attempters (TASA). He has served as a principal investigator of pharmaceutical company contracts to study the efficacy and safety of transdermal methylphenidate and deprenyl in ADHD, long-duration d-methylphenidate treatment of adults with ADHD, and the use of long-duration Adderall and long-duration Methylphenidate (Concerta) in children and adolescents with ADHD. Since June, 2005, Dr. Greenhill has delivered public comments at FDA Pediatric Subcommittee hearings as the representative of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

David Hay

An international expert in nosology and aetiology, Professor Hay is best known for his work on genetics and behaviour which draws upon his remarkable series of twin studies based upon the Australian Twin Register. He is Professor of Psychology at Curtin University in Western Australia.

Frank Oberklaid

Frank Oberklaid is the Foundation Director of the Centre for Community Child Health at the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne and a professor of paediatrics at the University of Melbourne.

Under his leadership, the Centre for Community Child Health has become internationally recognised for its research into early childhood health, development and behaviour, and for its cutting edge work in translating and disseminating research findings to inform public policy, service delivery and professional practice.

Professor Oberklaid began his paediatric career at the Royal Children's Hospital, with further studies in child development and behaviour at Harvard University. He is the author of two books and more than 150 scientific papers, is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, sits on the editorial boards of several international journals, and is the founding editor of a series of national publications directed to professionals who work with young children. Frank is the co-convenor of an international consortium working to develop comprehensive community based early childhood systems. He is currently vice-president of Jewish Care and Deputy Chair of the Victorian Children's Council.

George Patton

As Professor of Adolescent Health at The University of Melbourne, and with outstanding expertise in mental health epidemiology, youth substance abuse and dual diagnosis, one of Professor Patton's many well known collaborative initatives is the Victorian Gatehouse Project.

Joseph Rey

Professor Rey has extensive publications in both the English and Spanish child and adolescent mental health literature and is currently a Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Sydney. Dr Rey is a specialist in Oppositional-Defiant Disorder and aggression and delinquency, and more recently in mental health services for youth and the relationship between antidepressants and suicidality.

Tuula Tamminen

Tuula Tamminen, Professor of Child Psychiatry, University of Tampere, Finland, and the head of the Department of Child Psychiatry, Tampere University Hospital. Tamminen is the President of the World Association for Infant Mental Health and the Vice-President of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and she has for ten years been the President of the Mannerheim League for Child Welfare and Protection which is the most important NGO in Finland. Tamminen is a psychotherapist and family therapist and she has created new services and programs for infant-families, especially for severely mentally ill parents. Tamminen's clinical and research expertise is very broad, but the main focus has been on infant mental health, on maternal depression and its impact on child development. Also, she has been developing and studding early preventive programs in international projects. Tamminen has received many awards and honours and she has had many national tasks and duties for the Government in Finland.

Bruce Tonge

Professor Bruce Tonge was the Inaugural Head of the Monash University School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Chairperson of the Monash Department of Psychological Medicine and Professor and Head of the Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology. He is also Clinical Advisor of the Mental Health Program of the Southern Health at Monash Medical Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He has a distinguished record of teaching and research in child psychiatry. He established and directs the internationally recognised Monash University Centre for Developmental Psychiatry and Psychology (CDPP) and has been awarded competitive grants in excess of $13 M. He has research and teaching interests in the area of developmental psychiatry with a particular focus in the areas of Autism Spectrum Disorders, behavioural and emotional disturbance in children and adolescents with intellectual disability, and treatment outcome studies in childhood anxiety and depressive disorders

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