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speaking iN BRiEF -
Interviews with Experts
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Link to tip sheets -
Disaster preparedness
An influenza outbreak
Cyberbullying
Disaster recovery
Learnings from Ash Wednesday
Immediate aftermath of bushfires |
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Ideas for Future Interviews?
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Please let us know if you would like to hear an expert speak about a specific topic.
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Welcome to our speaker series, speaking iN BRiEF, where you can listen to a range of experts speaking about children’s trauma, loss and grief issues. Most resources are produced by our media consultant, Bronwyn Tarrant.
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Professor Kevin Ronan
Disaster Preparedness
Listen to Professor Kevin Ronan, Chair in Clinical Psychology in the Department of Behavioural and Social Sciences and the Institute of Health and Social Science Research, CQUniversity in Rockhampton, Queensland.
Professor Ronan speaks about the importance of preparedness for bushfires and other hazardous events and the obstacles, roadblocks and solutions. In Bushfire Preparedness Week (Victoria, October 11-18, 2009). Professor Ronan highlights the value of involving children in preparedness programs.
Listen to the audio on the player below. To save the MP3 file to listen to later - Right click on the Download link below and select 'Save Link As' or 'Save Target As'
Download copies of the transcripts.
More information? Visit our Preparedness Resources page to access Professor Ronan's article "Promoting Child and Family Resilience to Disasters" and Red Cross and EMA resources mentioned in the interviews.
Tip sheets - coming soon
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Bronwyn Tarrant
2009 Cunningham Dax Oration
In this vodcast Bronwyn Tarrant highlights online evidence-based resources for professionals working with communities, survivors and families affected by the 2009 Victorian bushfire disaster.
This vodcast focuses on the work of the The Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma Loss and Grief Network (ACATLGN); the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ASTSS); and their members. The vodcast draws attention to the practice implications from each of the featured resources. All the resources spotlighted in this vodcast are available in entirety on this ACATLGN website or www.astss.org.au or www.psychology.org.au/bushfire/briefing/.
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Professor Julian Dooley
Cyberbullying
Listen to Professor Julian Dooley, Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Director of Cyberbullying at the Child Health Promotion Research Centre at Edith Cowan University.
Professor Dooley speaks with ACATLGN about cyberbullying and how this can impact on young people today.
Listen to the audio on the player below. To save the MP3 file to listen to later - Right click on the Download link below and select 'Save Link As' or 'Save Target As'
Download copies of the transcripts.
Click here to view tip sheets.
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Ruth Wraith
Medium to Longer-term Effects of Trauma
Listen to Ruth Wraith - Disaster Recovery Consultant and Child Psychotherapist, one of Australia’s leading disaster mental health experts with over twenty five years experience in the National and International disaster, trauma, grief and loss field.
Ruth speaks about the medium to longer-term effects of trauma on children and adolescents.
Listen to the audio on the player below. To save the MP3 file to listen to later - Right click on the Download link below and select 'Save Link As' or 'Save Target As'
Listen to the Brief Byte below for the highlights of the interview
Download copies of the transcripts.
Click here to view tip sheets.
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Professor Alexander McFarlane
Learnings from Ash Wednesday
Listen to Professor Alexander McFarlane - an Australian psychiatry professor who has researched the traumatic effects of the Ash Wednesday bushfires and post-traumatic stress disorder. He has published extensively on these topics, including studies of the effects of bushfires over time.
Listen to the audio on the player below. To save the MP3 file to listen to later - Right click on the Download link below and select 'Save Link As' or 'Save Target As'
Download copies of the transcripts.
Click here to view tip sheets.
Professor Alexander McFarlane talks about "Children to bear fire anguish 20 years from now" in relation to the Victorian Bushfires published in The Sunday Age (17 May 2009).
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Professor Brett McDermott
In the Immediate Aftermath of Bushfires
Listen to Professor Brett McDermott - an Australian child psychiatrist who has worked with children, young people and their families affected by Australian bushfires and Cyclone Larry.
Listen to the audio on the player below. To save the MP3 file to listen to later - Right click on the Download link below and select 'Save Link As' or 'Save Target As'
Download copies of the transcripts.
Click here to view tip sheets.
Professor Brett McDermott speaking about the emotional recovery of children affected by bushfires (ABC Radio News - transcript only)
Click here to read.
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