Australian Music Therapy Association Conference 2006

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SATURDAY, 7 OCTOBER 2006
8.00 - 9.00	Registration
9.00 - 9.10	Welcome
9.10 - 9.30	Her Excellency, The Governor of New South Wales, Professor Marie Bashir AC
9.30 - 10.10	Keynote: Felicity Baker, Editor of The Australian Journal of Music Therapy
10.10 - 10.30	Performance by Cafe of the Gate of Salvation
10.30 - 11.00	MORNING TEA & TRADE EXHIBITION - Dr Ruth Bright will launch the new book by Felicity Baker and Jeanette Tamplin – Music Therapy Method in Neurorehabilitation: A clinician’s Manual. Felicity and Jeanette will be available for author signing after the launch. Proudly presented by Footprint Books
CONCURRENT SESSIONS	Aspects of Mental Health	Music Therapy Programs with Children and Adolescents
11.00 - 11.30	Linda Safajou-Dunne, Linda Safajou Productions - Evaluation of a Systematic Music Therapy Program with Mental Health Clients	Ann Lehmann (RMT) and Janet Andrews (2nd year masters student, UWS), South Coast School for Children with Autism - Humour, Flexibility and Social Relating: Assessing the Role for Humour within Creative Music Therapy Sessions as a Developmental Indicator of Social Interaction with Children in the Autistic Spectrum.
11.30 - 12.00	Claire Hogan, Sydney South Western Area Mental Health Service, Jillian Pascoe, Founder of Lifeforce - The Benefits of Guitar Tuition for Mental Health Consumers	Helen Carrington, Ipswich Special School, Maggie Leung, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane - Therapy Combo: A multidisciplinary approach to music therapy in special education
12:.00 – 12:30	Amy Robinson, Annesley House and Giant Steps- Resolving a lifetime of loss	Joanne McIntyre, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia, Francis Neilsen, University of Western Sydney - Music Therapy and Art Therapy Back to Back: a pilot programme with primary and secondary school students
12.30 - 1.30	LUNCH & TRADE EXHIBITION
1.30 - 2.30	AMTA Annual General Meeting
2:30 - 3.00	Yamaha Music Australia - workshop highlighting technologically advanced portable keyboards and digital pianos.
3.00 - 3.30	AFTERNOON & TRADE EXHIBITION
CONCURRENT SESSIONS	Music Therapy Research and Practice	Innovations in Music Therapy
3.30 - 4.00	Kathryn Lindenfelser, University of Melbourne - What bereaved parents have to say about their experiences of music therapy with their terminally ill child	Jeanette Tamplin, Austin Health - Song Collage Technique: A new approach to songwriting
4.00 - 4.30	Karen Cregan, Carers NT Inc. - The "Carers Sing" CD Project: A Sociological Approach to Music Therapy as a Catalyst for Change.	Dorothea Newland, Metro West Residences - Songlines with Challenging Lives
4.30 - 5.00	Kirstin Robertson-Gillam, Hammond Care Group, Karen Hogg, Cecil Hills High School - Hearing the Voice of the Elderly: Can Choir and Reminiscence facilitate greater engagement and communication?	Clare Kildea, Private Practice - A symphony of ways to work in music therapy
5.00 - 6.00	NEW GRADUATE COCKTAIL REGISTRATION CEREMONY - come along to welcome our new graduates into the profession. Light refreshments served.
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SUNDAY 8 OCTOBER 2007
8.00 - 9.00	Registration
9.00 - 9.10	Welcome
9.10 - 9.30	Anthony Ackroyd is CEO (Chief Enjoyment Officer!) of the ANThony ACKroyd companies - one of Australia's most successful comedy writer-performers
9.30 - 10.00	Yamaha Music Australia - workshop highlighting technologically advanced portable keyboards and digital pianos
10.00 - 10.30	MORNING TEA & TRADE EXHIBITION
CONCURRENT SESSIONS	Diversity in Music Theraphies	Fostering Relationships through Music Therapy
10.30 - 11.00	Rosemary Signorelli. The Smith Family and Ruth Bright - From Trauma to Hope: a Music Therapy Journey with Refugees	Ann Lehmann and and Elena Bellinato, Private Practice - "The Rockers" - Mapping the Social and Musical Progress of a Rock Band
11.00 - 11.30	Nainaben P Dhana, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - Music and Radiation Therapy Reduces an Adolescent’s Anxiety	Joanne McIntyre, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Australia - Mothers and Young Children: Building Healthy Relationships Through Music
11.30 - 12.00	Meg Toon, The Phoenix Centre - The effect of music therapy on the recovery from trauma of female refugees: a pilot study	Louise Docherty, Playgroup Queensland, Kate Williams, Deputy National Director of Sing & Grow - The Co-existence of evaluation research and Clinical Practice in an early intervention program
12.00 - 1.00	LUNCH & TRADE EXHIBITION
12.00 - 1.00	Incoming National Council Meeting
CONCURRENT SESSIONS	Music Therapy in Psychiatry	Music Therapy with Children
1.00 - 1.30	Denise Grocke, The University of Melbourne, Lucy Richards, Austin Hospital- The effect of group music therapy on social anxiety and mental ilness	Maggie Leung, Royal Children's Hospital Brisbane, Linda Barry, Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane - The use of combined Music Therapy and Speech Pathology in the rehabilitation of a child who sustained multiple trauma to the neck
1.30 - 2.00	Jeanette Milford, Central Northern Adelaide Health Service - Schizophrenia and Music Therapy: Moving Towards Recovery	Deanna Wainwright, Montrose Access - The Role of Music Therapy in a group setting for Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy - A community pilot study
2.00 - 2.30	Kylie Morgan, University of Western Sydney/Royal North Shore Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor Roger Bartrop, University of Sydney/Royal North Shore Hospital - The effect of music on brain wave functioning during an acute psychotic episode	Kate Williams, National Director, Sing & Grow - Clinicians and researchers moving forward together: Evaluation of a national early intervention music therapy project.
2.30 - 3.00	AFTERNOON TEA & TRADE EXHIBITION
STUDENT/NEW GRADUATE PAPERS
3.00 - 3.20	Jocelyn Lee, University of Queensland - The effects of music therapy on the emotional responses of people experiencing withdrawal symptoms from drug use	Philippa Barry, Reflexive journal writing: A tool for music therapy student clinical practice development
3.20 - 3.40	Moises Espinoza, University of Melbourne - Music Therapy and War-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder	Rob McGrigor, University of Queensland - The Effects of Improvised, Pre-Composed, and No Music on Problematic Behaviours of Mainstreamed Primary School Children
3.40 - 4.00	Libby Gleadhill, University of Queensland - Worden's Four Tasks of Mourning: Incorporating music therapy into the task model for an adult bereavement group
4.00 - 4.30	Conference Summary, Denise Grocke, Head of Music Therapy, Univesity of Melbourne
4.30 - 4.55	Performance by Voices from the Vacant Lot
5.00	CLOSE

POSTER DISPLAY - Developmental Care in the Newborn Services Unit - an Allied Health, Nursing Initiative

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