RESTORING LIVES INTERNATIONAL VETERANS CONFERENCE DRAFT PROGRAMME – 2ND OCTOBER 2015
0900
Registration & Refreshments – Foyer
0930
Opening Address – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
Professor Mike Thomas University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) & Professor Dianne Morrison-Beady, University of South Florida (USF)
0940
Accelerated Resolution Therapy – An Innovative Approach for Treating Military Mental Health Problems – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
Dr Diego Hernandez, USF
1030
Crossing the Wire: A Focus on the Wellbeing of Military Children – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
Wendy Nicholson, UK Public Health England
1100
Refreshment Break – Thomas Rigg Suite (Ground Floor)
Break Out Sessions - UK Presenters
Time
1130
1200
1230
1300
A – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
The Lived Experience: Psychological sequelae
in UK forces personnel ensuing combat
related genital trauma
Pride Gaka Chisora, Defence Medical Services
(DMS)
Dr Maria Benedicta Edwards
The ADVANCE Study (ArmeD SerVices
TrAuma RehabilitatioN OutComE Study)
Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre
B – Woodlands Suite (1st Floor)
The Veteran & the GP
Brigadier Robin Simpson, DMS Deanery
Dr Tony Firth
Factors that affect help seeking behaviour in
military veterans who served in Northern
Ireland?
PHC, New Zealand & Uni of Chester
Prof Alan Finnegan & Diarmaid Walshe
Shona Adams
The mental health implications for veterans
A review of evidence for Human Givens therapy
engaging in archaeological activities
for war veterans
DMS
Chartered Clinical Psychologist
Lunch – Hotel Restaurant (Ground Floor) & Poster Viewing – Woodlands Suite (1st Floor)
C – Yewbarrow Suite (1st Floor)
Specialist addiction treatment for military
veterans and reservists
Jacquie Johnston Lynch, Tom Harrison House
Liverpool
Dr Matthew Kiernan and Matt Fossey
Raising the bar: understanding veterans' access to
alcohol services
University of Northumbria
Dr Linda Cooper
Difficulties in transition: veterans in the criminal
justice system
Anglia Ruskin University
RESTORING LIVES INTERNATIONAL VETERANS CONFERENCE DRAFT PROGRAMME – 2ND OCTOBER 2015
Break Out Sessions - USA Presenters
A – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
The Use of ART with Women Veterans with
PTSD Secondary to MST
Dr. Alicia Rossiter, University of South Florida
B – Woodlands Suite (1st Floor)
Building Capacity: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Towards
Dr. Madeline Bruning, Healing the Moral Injury
of War
C – Yewbarrow Suite (1st Floor)
1430
Thought Field Therapy Efficacy in Treatment
of Posttraumatic Stress
Dr. Robert Robson
Innovative Educational Strategies for Teaching
Current and Future Nurses About the MilitaryVeteran Population
Dr. Abbie Neves
1500
An Empirical and Clinically Derived Schema
for PTSD
Dr. Ed Hickling
The University Warrior/Athletic Initiative
Dr. Susan Sheehy, Boston College Connell School
of Nursing and Uniformed Services University,
Bethesda & Col Paul Lewis, U.S. Army Research
Cell and Boston College Connell School of
Nursing
Experience of Homeless Vietnam Veterans in
Deciding to Access Healthcare,
Dr. Susan Lee
1530
Refreshment Break – Thomas Rigg Suite (Ground Floor)
1550
From Conflict to Crisis – Trauma in Afghanistan to Ebola in Sierra Leone – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
Brigadier Kevin Beaton, Defence Medical Services (DMS)
1620
VCare and the UK College of Military Veterans & Emergency Services – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
Dr Celia Hynes, University of Salford, Professor Mike Thomas, UCLan, Colonel Alan Finnegan, DMS & Dr. Rita D’Aoust, USF
1650
Closing Address – Grange View Suite (1st Floor)
Professor Alan Finnegan, DMS & Professor Connie Visovsky, USF
1700
Conference Closes
1930
Conference Dinner – Hotel Restaurant
1400
A Lifetime of Service: Successful Transition from
Military Service to BSN
Dr Mary Jane Hamilton and Dr. Jason Saladiner
RESTORING LIVES INTERNATIONAL VETERANS CONFERENCE DRAFT PROGRAMME – 2ND OCTOBER 2015
POSTER PRESENTATIONS – Woodlands Suite (1st Floor)
1. Dr Cherie Armour - Assessing the lived experience of being a veteran in Northern Ireland
2. Paula Berry - How innovative partnership working has increased the numbers of veterans with substance misuse problems accessing
treatment for substances and mental ill health
3. Dr. Rita D’Aoust - Women Veterans and Fibromyalgia: Risks and Clinical Implications
4. Batham et al – Front Line Clinical Care on Deployment
5. Dr. Kent Blad - Understanding Diversity in Caring in Caring for Our Veteran Population
6. Dr. Kent Blad - To Know Them is to Care for Them Better: Joining Forces Across the Atlantic to Educate Healthcare Providers on Caring
for Veterans and Military Personnel
7. Dr Elizabeth Boath – Combatting Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) using Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT
8. Dr. Linda Casale - A Systematic Review of Suicide Prevention Programs for Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraq Veterans
9. Dr Alan Finnegan – Factors Leading to Depression in the British Army
10. Dr. Tanya Friese – You Would Think Coming Home is the Easy Part: Cultural Competence for Healthcare Providers in Caring for Veterans
and their Families
11. Dr. Heather Johnson - Military Transitions: Building Networks for the Smallest Military Members
12. Dr. Edna Magpantay-Monroe - Integration of Military and Veterans Curriculum
13. Dr. Abbie Neves - Orienting Healthcare Providers and Educators to Military-Veteran Culture, Educational and Healthcare Needs
14. Dr. Abbie Neves - The Influence of Intergenerational Trauma on Military and Veteran Families with Children: Concept-Based Teaching
15. Dr. Paul Pfieffer - A Study of Peer Support Computerized Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Veterans with Depression
16. Major Debra Ritsperis - A literature review of factors affecting Army Nurse Recruitment in the United Kingdom
17. Howard Robson - Benefits of Thought Field Therapy provided by Community Workers to a population in Uganda, traumatised by
previous conflict
18. Dr. Alicia Rossiter - Women Veterans and Divorce: What are the Contributing Factors?
19. Dr. Teresa Ryan: Researchers on the Battlefield - Military Trauma Research and It’s Impact on Civilian Practice
20. Dr. Ron Ulberg - Teaching Nursing Students to Care Veterans: Developing an Undergraduate Course