On behalf of the CCN2012 committee, I would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to the 254 people who attended our conference last week, and who made it such a resounding success.
Positive feedback has been coming in from around the country and overseas, and the consensus seems to be that it was a stimulating, inspiring, diverse program that managed to deliver a lot of practical information that was also evidence-based. One CCN conference veteran even said that it was "invigorating, in a way that other conferences have been."
The only criticisms have been that there was almost too much to choose from, that the information was almost overwhelming in its scope and variety, and that it was possibly half a day too long. We understand completely - now you know how hard it was for us to organise the conference schedule - we wanted to attend nearly everything! In terms of criticisms, these are good ones, and ones we had ourselves :)
We wanted to have a conference that covered a broad spectrum of scientific and practice issues for neuropsychologists, and for others who work with our patients. The market research of the CCN helped us to identify issues that were of interest and relevant to our members, and we tailored the call for submissions accordingly. We were overwhelmed by the quality and variety of submissions received, and our very full conference program was the result of this evidence-based approach to conference planning.
We are in the process of obtaining powerpoint slides from the presenters, which will be uploaded to our CCN website, along with audios from the sessions. This will hopefully provide many hours of CPD opportunities in the coming months.
Thanks, once again, to the presenters who filled our program with such quality. Without your submissions and investment of time and energy, we wouldn't have had our program. We are indebted to you for making it an exhilarating and inspiring conference. Thanks also to our reviewers, volunteers, session chairs, and members who so freely gave their time and enthusiasm to an inclusive and progressive conference.
We now hand over the reins of this blog to the CCN2013 committee, who are preparing for our 19th conference in Brisbane next year, a conference that will celebrate 30 years of the CCN in Australia. The team is preparing a program that is rich in practical, scientific, professional, and social activities, which we hope will be even more successful than CCN2012.
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Over and out
Fiona Bardenhagen
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Sunday, 25 November 2012
CCN2013 and beyond
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As you may already know, the CCN conference is to be held in Queensland in 2013. For the first time it will be held in the beautiful city of Brisbane. We hope that you will be able to enjoy the wonderful weather, with the convenience of travel to a capital city. You will be able to view first hand the Brisbane River and its surrounds, and the great work that has been done re-building South Bank after the flood.
The Qld organising committee look forward to welcoming you to Brisbane.
Thursday, 25 October 2012
Free drinks and discounted student rates for Vineyard social function
Just imagine watching the sun setting over these hills at 830pm, before returning to Launceston on the CCN buses an hour or so later....
To add this social function to your registration, just use the link on your registration confirmation letter to access your registration, and select the Vineyard Social Function.
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Continuing Professional Development
The Conference Committee has applied to the APS for CPD endorsement for this conference - people with endorsement in clinical neuropsychology will be able to use conference points towards their PsyBA requirement of 30 CPD points per year, and CCN members will be able to claim under the APS requirement for neuropsychology CPD points. Other psychologists will be able to claim CPD points for attending the conference - if you feel that the events you attend are relevant to your area of endorsed practice, you are able to claim towards that area, as long as you document the activity and the relevance to your area as per the PsyBA rules.
There seems to be a common misconception that conference attendance does not normally count towards 'Active CPD' because there needs to be evidence of learning such as an 'assessment' at some point in the talk or workshop.
This belief about active CPD and conferences is incorrect.
The PsyBA Guidelines on CPD show that Active CPD is much easier to obtain than the common narrow interpretation that it must involve assessment. The Guidelines state:
Active CPD
Ten (10) hours each year are recommended to be 'active CPD' which refers to continuous professional development activities that engage the participant in active training through written or oral activities designed to enhance and test learning. This is a recommendation of the Board, not a requirement.
Examples of 'active' CPD include the following:
• attending seminars where there is a written test
• reading a structured series of professional psychology articles followed by completing an online assessment
• giving an oral presentation or tutorial to a group of peers on a new topic in psychology
• providing peer consultation to others
• attending a workshop which requires in vivo role play of skills;
• studying a new technique, followed by trialling this technique in the workplace, and a review and evaluation of the effectiveness and implementation of that technique (italics and underlining added.)
If the definition of active CPD is "activities that engage the participant in active training through written or oral activities designed to enhance and test learning", then even if a conference doesn't provide a written test or online assessment, if a psychologist engages in writing reflective, evaluative notes about the presentation afterwards, testing themselves on what they learnt after the presentation and writing down the answers, or talking to others about the presentation afterwards (in a formal, reflective way, like an oral report), then they could class it as Active CPD - This strategy is detailed in the Guidelines of Area of Practice Endorsement in the section on Active CPD for Registrars (p.8):
Where activities are not inherently active, the supervisor must be involved to ensure that the activities become active. For example, if CPD activities are not inherently active, the supervisor must set written work or another activity (for example, an oral report) to meet the active requirement.
Active CPD is only mandatory for people on the registrar program. It is recommended, but not required, for all other psychologists.
A note on "Active CPD"
We hope to make every (nonsocial) activity at the conference suitable for attendees to claim Active CPD points, though providing questions to test learning at the end. We are asking presenters to prepare questions, but we will provide them if the presenters don't! The professional practice forums on the second day of the conference might even constitute a form of peer supervision for attendees
There seems to be a common misconception that conference attendance does not normally count towards 'Active CPD' because there needs to be evidence of learning such as an 'assessment' at some point in the talk or workshop.
This belief about active CPD and conferences is incorrect.
The PsyBA Guidelines on CPD show that Active CPD is much easier to obtain than the common narrow interpretation that it must involve assessment. The Guidelines state:
Active CPD
Ten (10) hours each year are recommended to be 'active CPD' which refers to continuous professional development activities that engage the participant in active training through written or oral activities designed to enhance and test learning. This is a recommendation of the Board, not a requirement.
Examples of 'active' CPD include the following:
• attending seminars where there is a written test
• reading a structured series of professional psychology articles followed by completing an online assessment
• giving an oral presentation or tutorial to a group of peers on a new topic in psychology
• providing peer consultation to others
• attending a workshop which requires in vivo role play of skills;
• studying a new technique, followed by trialling this technique in the workplace, and a review and evaluation of the effectiveness and implementation of that technique (italics and underlining added.)
If the definition of active CPD is "activities that engage the participant in active training through written or oral activities designed to enhance and test learning", then even if a conference doesn't provide a written test or online assessment, if a psychologist engages in writing reflective, evaluative notes about the presentation afterwards, testing themselves on what they learnt after the presentation and writing down the answers, or talking to others about the presentation afterwards (in a formal, reflective way, like an oral report), then they could class it as Active CPD - This strategy is detailed in the Guidelines of Area of Practice Endorsement in the section on Active CPD for Registrars (p.8):
Where activities are not inherently active, the supervisor must be involved to ensure that the activities become active. For example, if CPD activities are not inherently active, the supervisor must set written work or another activity (for example, an oral report) to meet the active requirement.
Active CPD is only mandatory for people on the registrar program. It is recommended, but not required, for all other psychologists.
Thursday, 23 August 2012
Registrations now open
conference registrations are now open at https://events.psychology.
The full abstracts are viewable at https://events.psychology.org.
Our Scientific Chair, Mathew Summers, has written this overview of the conference program:
The 18th Annual College of Clinical Neuropsychology Conference is hosted and sponsored by the Australian Psychological Society (APS) College of Clinical Neuropsychologists and the Tasmanian Branch of the APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists. The theme of the 18th Annual CCN conference, “Neuropsychology in Action” guided the selection process of materials for the conference as well as the structure of presentation formats. The driving force for designing the 18th Annual CCN Conference was to develop a collection of current research in applied neuropsychology as well as ensuring that professional development needs of practicing neuropsychologists was met. This nexus between research and practice in the applied setting is represented in the 81 abstracts selected for the 18th Annual CCN Conference.
Over the course of the 3½ day conference, a total of 22 platform papers, 26 research posters, one keynote address, 3 symposia, 8 workshops, 5 practice fora, 5 how-to-sessions, 8 lectures, 2 student case presentation sessions, and one public forum will be presented. A range of exciting topics will be covered from research relating to paediatric neuropsychology, traumatic brain injury, and dementia. Workshops will feature interactive learning on topics including Collaborative Therapeutic Neuropsychological Assessment, driving assessment, and Motivational Interviewing. Invited international speakers for the 18th CCN Conference are Dr Alex Troster (Barrow Neurological Institute, Arizona) and Dr Tad Gorske (University of Pittsburgh) will present a series of workshops and keynote addresses of relevance to both researchers and practitioners. The Organising Committee awarded the inaugural CCN student travel prize to Ms Jodi Kamminga (Macquarie University) for her abstract “Prevalence of HIV associated neurocognitive disorder in a primary-care HIV positive cohort: Preliminary findings”.
As scientific chair I would like to thank the members of the organising committee and other contributors to the organisation of the 18th Annual CCN Conference: Fiona Bardenhagen (Conference Chair), Emma McCrum, Debbie Anderson, Mark Lamont, Sigrid Denehey, Dave Tuck, Tim Hannan, Alan Tucker, Stephen Bowden, Rachel Zombor, and Sarah McRae. I would also like to thank the 19 reviewers who provided independent reviews of all submissions received to ensure a conference program of the highest standard. Finally, I would like to thank the volunteer students from the School of Psychology at the Univerisy of Tasmania for giving their time to the running and organisation of the conference, as well as the student volunteers from the University of Melbourne, Macquarie University, and La Trobe University for assisting in the daily running of the conference.
Dr Mathew Summers
Scientific Chair
Monday, 20 August 2012
Conference abstracts
The conference abstracts are now viewable online, at
https://events.psychology.org.
https://events.psychology.org.
Monday, 23 July 2012
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