Posted By Meenu Chopra On Dec 15, 2009

Coping Resilience & Hope Building,
Asia Pacific Regional Conference,
Brisbane 9-11 July 2010

First Announcement
 
The Coping, Resilience and Hope Building  Asia Pacific Regional  Conference Brisbane 2010 will bring together practitioners, researchers, community activists and academics working in the trans-disciplinary area of human coping with diverse challenging life circumstances.
The Conference is interested in the fascinating capacity of human resilience to most adverse life events, as they unfold.  The conference aims to advance evidence-based practices in resilience promotion and hope building. It will look at interplay of individual, family, community and social responsibility factors in resilience and provide directions for future practice and research. It wishes to present a most stimulating forum for people interested in the central themes of coping and resilience. Organised as a sequel to the C&R Conference Dubrovnik 2009, presented by the Brisbane Institute of Strengths Based Practice, the Brisbane Conference will attract participants from the Asia Pacific region.  Keenly aimed to advance collaboration and networking among different regions and professional fields. Papers, presentations, narratives that focus on Strengths based practices around the world will be tabled at this conference.
The conference will be held in the beautiful City of Brisbane at the Griffith University, Nathan Campus. Brisbane flanked by the Sunshine Coast, about 2 hours to the north, and the Gold Coast, 1 hour to the south is city is a green and leafy city. At Brisbane there is plenty to do and see before and after the conference.
Conference themes

Given a variety of approaches to study coping and resilience and hope building and reviewing practicing skills to enhance in each of these areas, this conference is an opportunity for addressing them from a number of perspectives.  Viewed from a Strengths based practicesSbPs) presentations at the conference need to concentrate on the inherent strengths of individuals, families groups and organizations. Deploying peoples' personal strengths to aid their recovery and empowerment- this is the crux of this conference. We are looking for empowering alternatives to traditional methods with individuals, group or organizational work. We wish to see strategies that facilitate change by assisting to look at / what has worked? What does not work? and what might work presently making it important for those who facilitate and those desiring change to be integral to this process of change.
Some of the illustrative topics are listed bellow:

• Cross-cultural patterns of coping with hardships; Coping patterns and resilience factors in migration and acculturation; Personal and developmental factors in coping and resilience
• Interventions for children and youth to enhance resilience in adverse circumstances
• Strengths based Interventions in the field of education, from early schooling to tertiary initiatives; child protection and safety
• Resilience after loss and grief; Poverty, structural inequalities and  human resilience: implications for policy making
• Challenges of coping with disability and mental health issues; Gender issues in coping and resilience.
• Strengths based refugee acceptance policy development; Humanitarian Policing; Resilience mechanisms in recovery from individual and collective trauma; Posttraumatic growth after extreme suffering; Challenges of  reconciliation in multi-ethnic and post-conflict societies
• Best practices in helping individuals in crisis;  in empowering communities facing crisis and disasters; Asset-based community development
• Spirituality as a coping resource; Spirituality, healing systems, alternative therapies and meditation in enhancing resilience
• Remote rural communities, indigenous people and coping with life challenges; Strengthening resilience through e-communities and use of information technology

Abstracts and Proposals for Papers, Posters and Workshops, Post
Conference Workshops welcome by 25th December, 2009 Format: 200 words
only, 50 word Biodata to dr.venkat.pulla@gmail.com
(All proposals will be blind referred by the Programme Committee)

 
Dr.Venkat Pulla, President
Coping, Resilience and Hope Building Asia Pacific Conference 2010
dr.venkat.pulla@gmail.com