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ACCSSQ School Counsellors Annual Conference ┃ August 8 - 9, 2019 ┃ Rydges, Southbank ACCSSQ Conference Planning Committee 2019 Maree Rose, President [email protected] Joshua Laidler , Secretary [email protected] Jorge Ruiz, Treasurer [email protected] Cintia May, Sponsorship [email protected] Anita Smith, BCEO [email protected] Barb Davies, Ex-officio President [email protected] Catherine Dennis [email protected] Kirsteen Bostock [email protected] Lauren Phillips [email protected] Debbie Thurlow [email protected] Welcome Maree Rose The landscapes of our lives in our society, communities, schools, and schools, communities, society, our in lives our of landscapes The to address andwith challenges present us shift, evolve and families the developmental these and keeping pace with Our work in work with. and pastoral needs of our students asks us to through ourwe can do much know We to Student Wellbeing. applicable keep up with the fields can do even more when research. But, we also know we own reading and thereis way better what colleagues and similarly focussed we connect with have an exciting line We a conference such as this one! to do so than at Scott, Phill Nunn, Wayne this year including: Dr James up of speakers invited speakers, from each learn from and many more. We Warburton ownour from other, each with informally and formally connect we as other our own self-care. at the same time, we enhance reflections – and [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

ACCSSQ Conference Planning Committee 2019 ACCSSQ Conference Planning Committee Maree Rose, President Joshua Laidler , Secretary Jorge Ruiz, Treasurer Sponsorship Cintia May, Anita Smith, BCEO Barb Davies, Ex-officio President Catherine Dennis Kirsteen Bostock Lauren Phillips Debbie Thurlow Maree Rose John Percy CatholicQueensland Commission Education Aunty Joan Hendriks Nick Tyler Carmel College, Thornlands Dr Chris Seton Paediatric and Adolescent sleep physician Childrens Hospital, Westmead Cameron Francis Dovetail Dr Chris Seton Warburton Wayne Warburton Wayne and Mental Youth Child Health Service Rydges CBD Bar, Conference registration Conference Welcome Official Opening Conference of Country Acknowledgment Prayer Keynote Presentation: Sleep and Teen Understanding Drowsy Kids QIEU Presentation Morning tea cart Coffee Concurrent Workshops 1A: Workshop Dealing with drugs: what can schools do? 1B: Workshop Sleep and Teen Understanding Drowsy Kids Lunch Express neck massages Keynote Presentation: Screen addiction and gaming disorder Afternoon tea Concurrent Workshops 1C: Workshop Screen addiction and gaming disorder 1D: Workshop Eating disorders Pre-dinner drinks Conference dinner AGM Music by Joe Rallos 9:00am 9:05am 9:10am 9:15am 9:30am 10:55am 11:00am 12:30pm 1:30pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 4:30pm 6:00pm 8:30am 11:30am

Thursday 8 August 8:30am Conference registration Friday 9 August 9:00am Keynote Presentation: Phil Nunn Everybody hurts sometimes (working with anger and aggression) Morning tea 10:30am Coffee cart 11:00am Concurrent Workshops MacKillop Family Workshop 2A: Services Beyond Trauma Awareness - Rethinking Learning and Teaching Environments (ReLATE)

Workshop 2B: Phil Nunn Hurting, helping, healing Support for self-half, suicidality, and at risk. 12:00pm Lunch Express neck massages 1:00pm Keynote Presentation: Dr James Scott ADHD; The Most Treatable Developmental Disorder of Childhood 2:00pm Afternoon tea 2:30pm Concurrent Workshops Dr James Scott Workshop 2C: Managing Mental Illness in the Classroom

Workshop 2D: BeYou BeYou - National Education Initiative 3:30pm Conclusion Biographies Aunty Joan Hendriks Aunty Joan Hendriks is an Elder from the Ngugi people of Quandamooka (Moreton Bay) area of . She lives on North and is heavily involved in local community. She is passionate about the environment, aboriginal spirituality, sustaining Aboriginal culture and educating the younger generations. Aunty Joan has brought indigenous issues onto the international stage, speaking at the United Nations and International Interfaith Forums. A former student of girls’ school Lourdes Hill College in , she is the elder in residence, as well as an elder at the Cleveland Murri Court and has received an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic University. John Percy After teaching for 35 years in secondary schools in each of the three school sectors, John Percy joined the Queensland Catholic Education Commission (QCEC) secretariat in 2009 as an Executive Officer – Education. In his role at QCEC he has coordinated and facilitated the following QCEC Networks: • Faith, Formation and RE • Wellbeing • International Education And represented QCEC on the: • Teacher Quality Reference Group • Ed-LinQ Governance committee • the accreditation of initial teacher education programs He has also been the national representative for Catholic education on the: • Australian Teacher Workforce Dataset Oversight Board • TALIS National Advisory Committee • Schools Policy Group’s Respectful Relationships Education Working Group • bbNEI / Be You reference group

Dr Chris SetonDr Seton is a Paediatric and Adolescent Sleep Physician who works as a Staff Specialist in the Sleep Investigation Unit and Respiratory Support Service at Westmead Children’s Hospital. He is the founding Director of the SAN Paediatric Sleep Laboratory and also consults in Paediatric Sleep Disorders at Hornsby and St Vincent’s Clinic, Darlinghurst.

Dr Seton’s special interests include Adolescent Sleep Deprivation, Paediatric Narcolepsy and the relationship between sleep and learning in children. Biographies BeYou Be You promotes mental health and wellbeing, from the early years to 18, and offers future and current educators and learning communities evidence-based online professional learning, complemented by a range of tools and resources to turn learning into action.

Be You empowers educators, helping them to develop valuable mental health skills and knowledge, while also providing an effective model for implementing a whole- learning community approach to mental health and wellbeing. www.beyou.edu.au Cameron Francis Cameron Francis is a Social Worker with seventeen years’ experience in the youth alcohol and other drug sector in roles spanning individual counselling, outreach and peer education. Commencing with Dovetail at the project’s inception in 2010, Cameron combines a systems- approach with an extensive knowledge of alcohol and other drugs in order to support the workforce to better respond to complex problems in young people. The presentation will provide an overview of the latest trends in youth substance use – both good and not so good. Included will be information on some of the latest research into effective prevention approaches, and advice on managing substance use in the school environment. Dr Wayne Warburton Dr Wayne Warburton is an Associate Professor of developmental psychology at Macquarie University and is also a registered psychologist. He has a strong research interest in the fields of aggressive behaviour, media psychology and parenting. His publications in scientific journals and books are primarily on topics around aggressive behaviour and the impact of violent and pro-social media and screen overuse. He is co-author of the International Society for Research on Aggression Statement on Media Violence, the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues Research Summary on Media Violence, and the world experts’ Statement on Video Game Violence used in the US Supreme Court case of California vs. Entertainment Merchants. He has won more than 25 awards for his scholarship and teaching, including four from the Australian Psychological Society, and most recently the 2018 Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Media Psychology and Technology Award from the American Psychological Association. Catherine is one of three part time in-house Legal CounselCatherine is one of three part time in-house responsible for theat Brisbane Catholic Education, the body Catholicthe in Colleges and schools 141 of administration from Childers in theArchdiocese of Brisbane, extending Gayndah.to west and South the in Coast Gold the north, theof members to advice provides Catherine role her In BCE Senior Leaders, Team, BCE Executive Leadership members of BCEPrincipals and other leadership team staff. schools and Colleges, and Student Wellbeing James leads the Child and Youth Research Group at theat Group Research Youth and Child the leads James and the Health Research Centre for Mental Queensland at the UniversityResearch Group Mental Health Youth He also Clinical Research. Centre for of Queensland Psychiatrist with Youth as a Child and practices clinically the Health Service, where he is the Metro North Mental the Psychosis Service. James is Director of the Early Health and Medical Researchrecipient of a National Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellowship (2016-2020), Catherine holds a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws from QUT and is admitted asCatherine holds a Bachelor of Laws and Master of Laws from QUT . a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland and High Court of inyears ten for worked Catherine 2003, in role current her in commencing to Prior Law. private legal practice in Queensland specialising in Family Law and Estate of theIn addition to her role at Brisbane Catholic Education, Catherine is a member Treacy Ambrose and a Member of the College Board of Queensland Law Society, College Indooroopilly. awarded for his research into prevention and intervention strategies to improve theimprove to strategies intervention and prevention into research his for awarded mental health of adolescents. preventative strategies a programme of research developing James has established Hisyouth. and children in illness mental for interventions real-world cost-effective and clinical trials, bullying and psychiatric research incorporates studies in epidemiology, Australian and New Zealand He is the elected chair of the Royal neuro-immunology. Mental Health and an editor of the Journal Youth College of Psychiatrists Section for In 2018, he Social was Psychiatry awarded and the Psychiatric RoyalEpidemiology. Australian and New psychiatric to contribution significant most Zealand the made has who “Fellow the College on conferred of Psychiatrists’ Senior Research Australia and New Zealand over the preceding five years”. research in Award, MacKillop Family Services MacKillop Family Dr James Scott James Dr

Biographies Biographies Phil Nunn Phil Nunn is a Psychologist, Counsellor and Educator in Sydney who has worked with marginalised and ‘at risk’ people and their families for over 20 years. His training and consultancy agency, P&P, are based in Sydney and offer counselling to individuals and families, deliver workshops and training in the areas of communication and counselling skills, mental health issues, self harm/ deliberate self injury, suicide risk assessment, substance use/abuse, understanding disabilities including Autism and ADHD. P&P Training & Consultancy are committed to delivering “Real World” strategies to help others.

Child and Youth Mental Health

Service (CYMHSEDITH NKWENTY ) RMN, MSC, ANP, MNP (Nurse Practitioner) and Credentialed Mental Health Nurse Edit Nkwenty is a Nurse Practitioner in the Children’s Health Queensland (CHQ) Child and Youth Mental Health Service (CYMHS) Eating Disorder Program (EDP). Edith has worked in the field of mental health for over 16 years in the United Kingdom and Australia. Edith has worked in Acute Mental Health Services (adult and Children’s and adolescents), Consultation Liaison and in the community. Edith’s current role is as the Nurse Practitioner for CHQ CYMHS Eating Disorders Program providing service in the greater Brisbane area and developing state-wide services responsibilities. Edith has training in various psychological frameworks, including Family Based Therapy for Eating Disorders, Systemic Family Therapy, Mentalization Based Family Therapy (MBFT) for Children and adolescents and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

AMY DAVIS Amy Davis is an Accredited Practising Dietitian who has worked in a variety of hospitals, community centres and research projects over the past 19 years with a more recent interest in supporting the nutrition needs of those with mental illness, including eating disorders. She is currently working with the Child & Youth Mental Health Eating Disorder Program at Greenslopes and provides dietetic support within the service and in a state-wide capacity. Sponsors Stalls