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May 2008

• New Pathways to Trauma Treatment: A Five Day Workshop and Italian Cultural Experience with Bessel van der Kolk and Ellen-Searle LeBel 26-30 May, 2008 Montepulciano, Italy For more information please email the organisers
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• The Charlie Waller Institute presents a workshop by John Spector on EMDR for PTSD, May 28, 2008, Reading, UK

• The Roar of the Tiger - the use and abuse of power and its traumatic impact 29 May, 2008, Chester, UK

June 2008

• Center for Crisis Psychology 20th year anniversary celebration conference, Trauma, understanding and treatment, June 2-3 2008, Bergen, Norway

• International Joint Operations Command Conference 4 - 5 June, 2008, London Fire Brigade, UK

• The Treatment of Psychological Trauma and its Consequences and the Development of Trauma Units in the UK and USA 12 June, 2008, The Cardinal Clinic, London, UK

• Between June 13th and 16th, there is a partnership weekend involving ISTSS, ESTSS and EMDR-E (SEE BELOW).

• 9th EMDR Europe Conference - NEW PERSPECTIVES IN EMDR 13-15 June 2008, Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, London, UK.

• The European Society for Traumatic Stress Studies will be providing two workshops, also in the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster London. These will qualify for the ESTSS General Certificate in Psychotraumatology. 13-15 June 2008, London, UK

• Interventions for Traumatised Populations: an expert update from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. Presentations from some of the leading experts in the field - Bessel van der Kolk, John Fairbank, Marylène Cloitre, Alexander McFarlane, Patricia Resick, Rachel Yehuda, Stuart Turner, Richard Bryant, Stevan Hobfoll, Chris Brewin, Ulrich Schnyder. June 16th 2008, to be held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Multi-Diagnostic Disorders: A one day introduction by Thomas Lynch 24 June, 2008, Reading, UK

• IX International Congress on Traumatic Stress Simultaneous translation from and into English, Portuguese and Spanish will be provided during the sessions. 25-27 June, 2008, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Not a Conference but an important event - National Veterans Day 27 June, 2008, UK

July 2008

• Trauma and Resilience: Theory and Practice from the Israeli Experience - A Summer Course 1-21 July, 2008 The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

• The Annual Tavistock Trauma Conference - Working with Traumatised Refugees and Asylum Seekers 4 July, 2008 London, UK

• Treatment of PTSD in Children by Professor William Yule 4 July, 2008, Reading, UK

• 3rd International conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology 14-15 July, 2008 Roehampton University, London

• 36th Annual Conference of the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy 16-19 July 2008 Edinburgh, UK

August 2008

• World Federation for Mental Health International Forum on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings August 28-29, 2008, London, UK

September 2008

• 15th Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress (ACOTS) 11-13 September, 2008 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• XIV World Congress of Psychiatry 20-25 September, 2008, Prague, Czech Republic

October 2008

• International Society for Health and Human Rights Conference titled Truth, Justice and Reparation: Rebuilding Health and Dignity After Trauma and Human Right Violations 16-18 October, 2008 Lima, Peru

• International Conference - Philosophy of Interculturality organised by the ACPC Austrian Center of Philosophy with Children, 16-19 October, 2008, Graz, Austria

• Gaza Community Mental Health Programme's 5th International Conference - Siege and Mental Health, Walls vs. Bridges 27-29 October, 2008,Gaza City, Palestine

November 2008

• ISTSS Annual Meeting 2008 November 13 - 15 2008 Chicago, USA
  [My Presidential Meeting]

• International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation 14-17 November, 2008, Chicago, USA

• Conference on Innovations in Trauma Research Methods (CITRM) 16 -17 November, 2008 Chicago, USA

January 2009

• Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution. Third international multidisciplinary conference, to be held at the Imperial War Museum, London, UK 7-9 January 2009. For further information, please email Johannes-Dieter Steinert

April 2009

• World Psychiatric Association International Congress on Treatments in Psychiatry April 1st to 4th, 2009, Florence, Italy

May 2009

• 16th World Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine May 12-15, 2009 Victoria, Canada

June 2009

• 11th European Conference on Traumatic Stress (ECOTS) 15-18 June, 2009, Oslo, Norway

November 2009

• ISTSS Annual Meeting 2009 November 5 - 7 2009 Atlanta, USA