CALL FOR PAPERS -ACT Health 9th Annual Allied Health Symposium-2016
All in the Mind? Foundations for Good Mental Health
Wednesday 6th April 2016-12.00pm-5.00pm- Gandel Hall, National Gallery of Australia
The aim of the annual ACT Health allied health symposium is to bring together our diverse allied
health workforce from the clinical, education, research and management and leadership practice
domains. Our gathering in a common place provides a forum at which ideas, visions, challenges,
strategies and networks can be examined and shared.
SYMPOSIUM OBJECTIVE
The objective of the 2016 Symposium is to provide an opportunity for allied health practitioners to
reflect on and build their understanding of what good mental health looks and feels like both for
themselves and consumers.
To facilitate this objective, the Symposium program will be shaped by the contributions of both
external keynote speakers and local allied health presenters ranging from clinicians through to
experienced allied health researchers.
SYMPOSIUM THEMES
Mental health, healthy workplaces, wellness, wellbeing, resilience, healthy mind/healthy body, selfmanagement, strategies for managing stress, anxiety and depression, are all phrases that make up
the contemporary health care lexicon-but how are they meaningfully reflected in our organisation?
How do we as allied health practitioners demonstrate and reflect these at an individual and/or
service level and what is the current evidence base for these making a difference?
The 2016 Allied Health Symposium will bring together a range of external and local speakers to
explore and challenge our perceptions of what it means for us as practitioners to have good mental
health in the workplace, as well as present on innovative models for building and maintaining good
menatal health for our clients, consumers and their families.
Other in-scope themes:
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Impact of body image issues on health
and wellbeing
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Innovative approaches in provision of
services that support health and wellbeing
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Use of technology to support good mental
health
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Promotion of health and wellbeing in the
workplace
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Models of care that support and
strengthen health and wellbeing in
specific populations including people
impacted by alcohol and drugs, chronic
disease, crime, disability, homelessness
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Strengthening families
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Mindfulness in practice
CALL FOR PAPERS-ACT Health 9th Annual Allied Health Symposium-2016
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Make sure the theme of your paper relates to at least one of the Symposium themes.
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Your abstract should do two things-tell the Symposium Committee what you are going to
talk about, and persuade them that people will be interested in coming along to hear your
presentation.
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Please provide a title for your oral presentation-an interesting or catchy title helps but
please make sure it accurately reflects the Symposium theme(s) and your presentation.
If you need assistance please contact Sally.Ranford@act.gov.au
LAYOUT
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Abstract should be written into Abstract Cover Sheet-see next page
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Title should be Calibri Bold 14 point single spaced
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Paper author(s) information should be set two lines below the title in Calibri 11 point
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The body of your abstract should be set two lines below presenter/author information.
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Body of the abstract should be in Calibri 11 point with 1.5 line spacing and double spacing
between paragraphs.
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Maximum of 300 words.
CONTENT AND STRUCTURE
How you write your abstract is up to you but the Symposium Committee encourages you to use
the following headings:
1. Introduction
2. Objectives
3. Methods or Approach used
4. Practice Implications
5. Conclusion
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Introduce the context of your presentation, including the Symposium theme(s) your paper
responds to. Use this opportunity to set up the context for your presentation and objectives
of your project; outline how the question/issue informing your presentation is interesting
and was worth answering.
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Outline your project/presentation, the theoretical or practical techniques/approach you
used and how you addressed the question/issue at hand?
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Summation of practice implications arising from your project, including relevance to a wider
context-particularly in relation to consumers and families but also your discipline, your
service and/or the wider organisation.
All in the Mind? Foundations for Good Mental Health
CALL FOR PAPERS-ACT Health 9th Annual Allied Health Symposium-2016
ABSTRACT COVER SHEET
Primary contact person for this poster abstract.
Name:
Email:
Phone:
ABSTRACT (maximum 300 words)
TITLE
Paper Author(s) Information-include all authors.
Start typing here (in accordance with Layout requirements as per page 2 of this document)
Please submit your abstract electronically to Sally.Ranford@act.gov.au
By 5.00pm Friday 29th January 2016
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