Assistant Professor Hyun-nie Ahn, PhD

Pusan National University, South Korea

Assistant Professor Hyun-nie Ahn, PhD, is based in the Department of Psychology at Pusan National University, Pusan, South Korea. She is also the Head of the University Counseling Services at Pusan National University. Hyun-nie received both her master's and doctoral degrees from the Counseling Psychology program at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, U.S.A., completing a full-time psychology internship at the Counseling and Psychological Services in Indiana University - Bloomington. Her clinical experiences include working with the Southeast Asian refugees families as well as with the general college population. Hyun-nie's research focus have been on explaining the therapeutic factors in counseling and on the effect of cultural factors in counseling, however, her most recent interest is on psychological trauma and crisis counseling. She is currently an active member of the Korean Psychological Association, Korea Counseling Association, American Psychological Association (Division 17), and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.

Professor Judy Atkinson

Southern Cross University, Australia

Professor Judy Atkinson introduces herself as coming from the three ‘I’s’, Indigenous, Invader, and Immigrant. She identifies as a Jiman / Bundjalung woman who also has Anglo-Celtic, and German heritage. Judy has a BA from the University of Canberra and a Ph.D. from Queensland University of Technology. She is presently the Chair of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University. Her major academic focus, and the extensive work she has conducted within Indigenous communities across Australia, has been in the area of violence and relational trauma, and healing for Indigenous, and indeed all peoples. She developed the We Al-li / Indigenous Therapies Program designed to address the critical needs of Indigenous communities around violence / trauma / healing needs, and co-authored the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Task Force on Violence Report for the Queensland government. Her book: Trauma Trails – Recreating Songlines: The transgenerational effects of Trauma in Indigenous Australia, provides context to the life stories of people who have moved/been moved from their country in a process that has created trauma trails, and the healing that can occur as people make connections with each other and share their stories of healing. She developed and teaches in the undergraduate Trauma and Healing degree, and the Masters in Indigenous Studies (wellbeing). Judy uses the healing power of art (music, painting, writing-story) as re-creation of spirit when she is not working in the academy.

Professor Marie Battiste

University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Professor Marie Battiste is Mi’kmaq, a member of the Potlo’tek First Nation in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. She is full professor at the University of Saskatchewan in the Department of Educational Foundations, Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre in the College of Education, and Co-Director of the Humanities Research Unit in the College of Arts and Sciences. A mother of three, she and her husband J. Youngblood Henderson have made Saskatoon their home after many years living in Eskasoni, Nova Scotia, a Mi’kmaw reserve where she was an administrator in two First Nations schools. She has several earned degrees: Ed. D. (1984) Stanford University; Ed. M. (1974); Harvard University; B.S. (1971) University of Maine, Farmington and received two honorary degrees: 1997 University of Maine, Farmington and 1987 St. Mary's University. She has published widely and remains involved in research on Aboriginal education, languages and teachers and teacher education. She is co-author of (2000) Protecting Indigenous Knowledge: A Gobal Challenge. Saskatoon, SK: Purich Press, which won a Saskatchewan Book Award in 2001; and editor of (2000) Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision. Vancouver: UBC Press, and senior editor of (1995) First Nations Education in Canada: The Circle Unfolds. Vancouver: UBC Press. She was the recipient of the Distinguished Research Award in 2004, the first woman to receive this award at the University of Saskatchewan.

Dr Shaun Brookhouse

Washington School of Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis, USA

Dr Shaun Brookhouse, GCGI, Graduateship in Counselling and Hypnotherapy (First Degree Equivalent), City and Guild of London Institute, MA, Education Studies, Liverpool John Moores University, DCH, Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy Degree, American Institute of Hypnotherapy, PhD, Education and Health Services, Stratford International University, CertEd, Post Compulsory Education, Manchester University. Dr Brookhouse is an UKCP Registered Psychotherapist, Fellow of: The National Council for Hypnotherapy (UK), National HypnoPsychotherapy Council, (UK), National Guild of Hypnotists (US), Clinical Member of ACA (Australia), Director of Brookhouse Hypnotherapy Ltd, The Washington School of Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis, UK Academy of Therapeutic Arts and Sciences, Hypno-Psychotherapist/Counsellor in Private Practice. He is an award winning hypnotherapist and trainer (in both the UK and US). He earned Graduateship (First Degree Equivalent) in Counselling and Hypnotherapy, a Masters Degree in Education Studies (researching the development of training in hypnotherapy 1971-1998) and Doctorates in Clinical Hypnotherapy and Education & Health Services, a CertEd (Teaching Credential)in which the assessment was based in part on the course he designed in clinical hypnosis, and Licenciateship in Training and Development. Shaun is a Certified Instructor with the NGH and is the past Chairman of the National Council for Hypnotherapy, one of the UK’s premier hypnotherapy societies. Additionally, he is a UKCP Registered Hypno-Psychotherapist and an NLP Master Trainer. He is Principal of the Washington School of Clinical and Advanced Hypnosis and lectures internationally on the subjects of Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistics. He has received several Fellowships for his contributions to the hypnotherapy profession world wide. In addition to Shaun's considerable academic and professional credentials, he has also received the manyawards for his work within the profession including the Rexford L North Memorial Trophy for Life Time Achievement, the NGH’s highest honour and the President’s Award, their second highest honour.

Rev Carlton F. Brown

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Rev. Carlton F. Brown, M.Sc., M.Div., RMFT is a pastoral counsellor and registered marriage and family therapist living and working in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He enjoyed a brief career studying physiological systems before attending Baptist seminary, serving a congregation in Northern Ontario, and then continuing to study physiological systems at the macroscopic (i.e. sociological) level. A specialist and associate teaching supervisor in pastoral counselling education with the Canadian Association for Pastoral Practice & Education (CAPPE) and a clinical member of the American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT), Carl has worked extensively with psychiatric patients, hospital systems, and individuals, couples and families in private practice. A doctoral candidate at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, his research interest is in the relationship between spirituality and physiology.

Professor Julia Buckroyd

University of Hertfordshire, UK

Professor Julia Buckroyd is Professor of Counselling, University of Hertfordshire, UK; MA (St Andrews); MA (McMaster, Hamilton, Ontario); PhD (Cambridge); Diploma in Counselling (Birkbeck, London); Member, Guild of Psychotherapists; UKCP Registered Psychotherapist. Professor Buckroyd trained as a Counsellor at the University of London and a Psychotherapist with the Guild of Psychotherapists in London. She worked as student counsellor at London Contemporary Dance School for five years where she first developed an interest in eating disorders. She practised privately for five years before moving to the University of Hertfordshire in 1994 to take responsibility for counselling training courses. Since 2000 she has worked principally in the field of research into psychotherapeutic responses to eating disorders and obesity. She now heads a research team and supervises research students in this area. Her other closely related research interest continues to be in the emotional welfare of professional dancers and dance students. In 2003 she was appointed editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, the quarterly research journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Professor Jon Carlson

Governor State University, USA

Professor Jon Carlson, PsyD, EdD, ABPP is a distinguished professor in the Division of Psychology and Counseling at Governors State University (Illinois) and a psychologist at the Wellness Clinic in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. In addition to his two earned doctoral degrees, he has earned a Certificate of Psychotherapy from the Adler School of Professional Psychology.  He has received awards from many of the national professional associations including the American Psychological Association and the American Counseling Association (ACA). In 2004, ACA named him one of the five Living Legends of Counseling. He has written 35 books including The Mummy at the Dining Room Table, Bad Therapy, Their Finest Hour, American Shaman, Time for a Better Marriage and Becoming an Effective Therapist. He has published 140 journal articles and served as editor of several journals including The Family Journal and the Journal of Individual Psychology. He has developed over 200 award winning professional and trade ,video/dvd programs. His series are in the areas of psychotherapy, family therapy, brief therapy, couples therapy, addictions, child therapy, behavioral health and health counseling, multi-cultural counseling, and spirituality. He has an active psychotherapy practice and is a popular speaker and workshop leader.

Jo Clarke

The Australian Homoeopathic Association, Australia

Jo Clarke B.A.Hons (English- UK); Post Graduate diploma in Education,MAHA, Bachelor of Counselling (candidate), Diploma in Homoeopathy from The Australasian College of Hahnemannian Homoeopathy. Jo is currently president of The Australian Homoeopathic Association (NSW branch) and is registered with The Australian register of Homoeopaths. She has been active in promoting a greater awareness of and understanding in, the use of Homoeopathy to promote and maintain wellness. Jo runs her own practice as a homoeopath, and uses conselling approaches in her interactions with clients. Jo teaches practitioner skills, homoeopathy and other subjects to natural therapy students and is also a volunteer crisis counsellor. Jo has worked as a social worker and began her professional life as an english teacher. She has also been involved in teaching a variety of programs in such areas as personal development, pre-vocational training, communication and interpersonal skills. Jo has an interest in the holistic healing nature of homoeopathy and the importance of the interactions of healing on all levels, spiritual, emotional, mental and physical.

Louise Corben

Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Australia

Louise Corben, B App Sci (OT), M Sci, PhD candidate, is Coordinator of Clinical Research at the Bruce Lefroy Centre for Genetic Health Research, based at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Melbourne. She has extensive experience in research including the design of experimental paradigms, ethics/grant issues and identifying appropriate outcome measures. She has also published in several peer-reviewed journals and contributed to book chapters related to Friedreich Ataxia and cognitive function. Louise also works part-time as an Occupational Therapist (Senior Clinician) predominantly with people with neurological conditions and coordinates the Friedreich Ataxia clinic based at Monash Medical Centre, Melbourne. She also teaches undergraduate and postgraduate Occupational Therapy students at Latrobe University, Melbourne. Louise completed a Master of Science (Experimental Neuropsychology Research Unit, Monash University, Melbourne) in 2001. Her research examined the nature of unilateral neglect following stroke, with particular emphasis on the mechanisms of perception and motor control. She is currently undertaking a PhD examining motor processing in individuals with Friedreich Ataxia. Louise’s clinical and research interests are multidisciplinary models of care and the effect of chronic neurological conditions on motor and cognitive function, quality of life and the capacity to participate in significant roles and daily activities. Louise has presented at both a national and international level on topics related to her research, cognition and perception, evidence-based practice and Friedreich Ataxia. She has also participated in numerous projects (as a steering committee member, leader or board member) including the Clinical Support Systems Project and the National Stroke Unit Program.

Dr Mark Fernando

Warnborough University, UK

Dr. Mark Fernando is an Honours Graduate from the London School of Economics, University of London. He holds postgraduate qualifications from King's College, London, Canterbury Christ Church University, University of
Oxford, Trinity University, Harvard University Medical School, and the University of Kent. He was appointed Director for Outreach and Academic Initiatives in 2002, and Dean of the Advanced Research Centre for Comparative Bioethics in 2003 at Warnborough. His professional interests include Bioethics, Professional Ethics, Trauma Counselling, Clinical Psychology and Moral Psychology. Mark leads the Fernando Consultancy for the delivery of courses, workshops and training,

www.fernandoconsultancy.com

Dr Stanley Gold

Monash University, Australia

Dr Stanley Gold, MB BS (Melbourne,1957), DPM (London, 1961), FRANZCP (1972), MRC(Psych)(England 1972), is a Psychiatrist and Psychoanalyst with a private practice in individual and analytic Group Psychotherapy. He is part time Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine Monash University Melbourne, where he is Chair of the Psychodynamic and Qualitative Research Seminar and of the Centre for Psychodynamic Studies. He is interested in applications of Psychonalytic concepts, especially in large group settings and is a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations(ISPSO). He has published 40 articles and one book in the areas of Adult and Child Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Organisations. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Social and Organisational Dynamics.

Assistant Professor Asaduzzaman Khan

University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Assistant Professor Asaduzzaman Khan , MPH(Hons.), MSc, BSc(Hons.) is a Statistician by training and currently working as an Assistant Professor in the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has an MPH(Hons.) from the University of Sydney, an MSc and a BSc (Hons.) from University of Dhaka. Recently he has submitted his PhD research at the University of New England. He has keen interest in application of statistical tools in real life situations, and in conducting epidemiological research. He has worked in a wide range of areas including women’s health, health care management, sexually transmissible infections, HIV/AIDS, fertility and mental health, and published a good number of articles in reputed journals. In addition to his attachment with the University of Dhaka, he is also an adjunct researcher of the Women’s Health Australia longitudinal study.

Associate Professor Vivian Lalande

University of Calgary, Canada

Associate Professor Vivian Lalande is in the Campus Alberta Applied Psychology Program and the Division of Applied Psychology at the University of Calgary. Her discipline is counselling psychology. She has qualitative research interests in the following areas: career development and counselling; counselling girls and women; program development and evaluation; and professional counsellor education issues such as practicum placements. She is a member of the Canadian Counselling Association, the Canadian Psychological Association, the Canadian Evaluation Society, and is Chartered as a Psychologist. She is the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Counselling, official Journal of the Canadian Counselling Association.

Dr Stephen Madigan

American Family Therapy Academe, USA

Stephen Madigan is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor and member of the American Family Therapy Academy. He holds an MSW as well as an MSc and PhD in Marriage
and Family Therapy. Since 1991 he has sat on the Editorial Board of the International Narrative Therapy and Community Work Journal. In 1992, Dr. Madigan founded North America’s first narrative therapy clinic and training program through Yaletown Family Therapy, in Vancouver, Canada www.yaletownfamilytherapy.com. Stephen has trained thousands of counsellors throughout North America, Europe, Mexico and Australasia. He has published over 20 articles and book chapters in narrative theory and practice as well as two books - Praxis-situating discourse, feminism and politics in narrative therapies (co-edited with Ian Law) - and - Therapy from the Outside In. His newest book - The Social Life of Problems - will be available during the Winter of 2006. Stephen is the co-founder of the APA approved website www.planet-therapy.com providing narrative and social justice CE’s online. He has just completed a second "Family Therapy with the Experts" video tape for Allyn and Bacon Publishers of NYC. Each year he works alongside the "trying to be authentic cultural partnership group" to organize the International Therapeutic Conversations Conferences www.therapeuticconversations.com (TC7 in Vancouver, May 2006). Stephen is the father of 9 yr. old twin daughters Hannah and Tessa Madigan.

Professor Emeritus Augustine Meier

Saint Paul University , Canada

Professor Emeritus Augustine Meier, Ph.D., is a certified clinical psychologist in private practice, a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Human Sciences, Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, and an Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Psychology, Carleton University, Ottawa. He teaches a course and provides advanced training in object relations therapy and self psychology. He taught graduate courses in psychotherapy and psychopathology and trained graduate students in individual counselling. He has co- authored articles on psychotherapy and psychopathology in refereed journals and co- presented advanced workshops on the use of mental imagery in psychotherapy and on theme-analysis. He is the author or co-author of three books: The Challenge of Forgiveness, In Search of Healing, and Spirituality and Health: Multidisciplinary Approaches. Professor Meier is the Founder and first President of The Society for Pastoral Counselling Research.

Professor Eleanor O'Leary

University College Cork, Ireland

Professor Eleanor O'Leary is Director of the Counselling and Health Studies Unit, Department of Applied Psychology, University College cork, University of Ireland, Cork, and a visiting professor at the University of Malaga, ISMAI, Portugal. She is a chartered counselling and health psychologist of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI). She obtained the Special Award for Outstanding Contribution to Psychology from the latter Society in 2000. Professor O'Leary is the author of The Psychological Experience of Homelessness (Tower Press, 2003), Counselling Older Adults (Chapman & Hall, London, 1996) , Gestalt Therapy (Chapman & Hall, London, 1998) and three other books in the fields of psychology and counselling She has extensive publications in process and outcome research especially in the fields of counselling and gerontology. She is a board member of the International Gestalt Therapy Association and accreditations officer of the European Institute of Psychotherapy, honorary life chairperson of the Irish Gestalt Society, National Executive Member of the Irish Institute of Group Facilitators and founding member of the European Association of Counselling and the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy.

Professor Martin Philpott

University of Notre Dame, Australia

Professor Martin Philpott is Head of School of Counselling and Applied Psychology, in the College of Health, at the University of Notre Dame in Western Australia. He is a past Staff member of the Dept Of Applied Psychology at University College Cork, at the National University of Ireland. Martin is a Counselling Psychologist and holds specialist title with the Psychologists Board of Western Australia. He is an experienced clinician in Counselling, especially in the area of high prevalence mental illness. He is also an experienced supervisor. He is a member of the Australian Psychological Society and the College of Counselling Psychology. Martin is also a member of the State Forensic Mental Health Advisory board and his research interests include Counsellor training / education, experiential groups, integration of Counselling Theories and the Counsellor / Client relationship. He is currently engaged in researching the ameliorating effect of small group experience on mature age student stress. Originally from Cork, Ireland, Professor Philpott has been in Australia since 1999 when he was appointed Foundation Head of Counselling at Notre Dame.

Rev Dr Joe Quinn

Congregation of St Basil, Canada

Rev’d Dr Joe Quinn, is a Roman Catholic priest who was ordained in 1963, and is a member of the Congregation of St. Basil in Canada. He received a Ph.D in English Literature from Purdue University in 1969. He was a member of the English Department at the University of Windsor, Ontario, for thirty years. He took early retirement from the University to begin studying the spirituality of aging. He now gives religious retreats to the elderly as well as various workshops geared to spirituality and aging. He is a member of the American Society for Aging, and the Forum on Religion, Spirituality and Aging. He has served cphjournal as a guest Associate Editor for a special issue on Aging and Spirituality, published during 2006.

Professor Michael Ross

University of Texas, USA

Professor Michael Ross is Director of theUniversity of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health, Health Promotion/Health Education. He has an M.H.P.Ed., University of New South Wales (Australia), a B.S., University of the State of New York, Medical Sociology, an M.A., Victoria University of Wellington, Social Psychology, a B.A., Massey University, Psychology, an M.P.H., University of Adelaide, Epidemiology, Health Education, a Masters in Criminology, University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D., University of Melbourne, Social Psychology. His current research involves prevention of infectious diseases, with particular reference to HIV/AIDS, STDs, and tuberculosis. Other applied interests include burnout in health care workers and volunteers associated with HIV, cross-cultural aspects of sexual (particularly homosexual) behavior, substance abuse and sexuality, and behavioral epidemiology of HIV and STDs. His theoretical interests include risk behaviors for HIV and STDs, with particular emphasis on situational determinants of risks and the psychology of situations. He works in Scandinavia, India, Africa, and Thailand as well as the United States. Professor Ross is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the New Zealand Psychological Society, the American Psychological Association, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hygiene, and the Royal Society of Health. He is Editor of AIDS Care, and sits on the Editorial Boards of AIDS Care, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, Journal of Homosexuality, Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality.

Dr Brenden D. Tempest-Mogg

Warnborough University, UK

Dr. Brenden D. Tempest-Mogg, BA (New South Wales), MA (Essex), MLitt (Oxford), EdD (George Washington), JP (NSW). Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. President, Warnborough University. Psychotherapist and Clinical Counsellor. Member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Professional Member of the American Counseling Association, Clinical Member for the Australian Counselling Association. Lecturer and workshop facilitator. Also, consultant on international education, accreditation and distance learning. Areas of interest include, Life Skills, Conflict Resolution, Stress Management, Relating, and Human Resource Management.

Professor Bruce E. Wampold

University of Wisconsin—Madison, USA

Professor Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, ABPP, BA, was trained in mathematics (BA from the University of Washington) before earning his doctorate in Counseling Psychology (PhD from University of California, Santa Barbara) is Professor and Chair of Department of Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin--Madison. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 12, 17, 29) and a Diplomate in Counseling Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology. Currently his work involves understanding counseling and psychotherapy from empirical, historical, and anthropological perspectives. His analysis of empirical evidence, which has led to the development of a contextual model from which to understand the benefits of counseling and psychotherapy, is found in The Great Psychotherapy Debate: Models, methods, and findings (2001, Erlbaum and Associates). He is the author of over 100 books, chapters, and articles related to counseling, psychotherapy, statistics, and research methods.

Helen Wilson

Expressive Therapies Institute of Australia, Australia

Assistant Professor Shawn S. Wilson

Brandon University, Canada