Oral Presentation

Dr Effie Zafirakis1 1Self-employed, Northcote, Australia Disconcertingly, Aboriginal families with complex needs continue to experience family violence at alarmingly disproportionate rates, than those experienced by other Australians. Optimally responding to Aboriginal children and families experiencing intergenerational trauma with complex needs,...
  • August 10, 2021
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Ms Mariam Younan1, A/Prof Kristy Martire1 1University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, Australia Forensic expert evidence is an important aid in legal decision-making, admitted to assist with critical and often consequential legal matters, for example; whether a defendant is...
  • August 10, 2021
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Associate Professor Anthony Hopkins2, Dr  Shannon Dodd3, Professor Mark Nolan1,2, Professor Lorana Bartels2 1Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia, 2The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 3University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Compassion has the capacity to change how we think and feel...
  • August 10, 2021
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Prof. Penelope Weller1 1RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Independent mental health advocacy is a unique form of advocacy first developed in the United Kingdom.   Two unique services have now been established in Australia-  the Mental Health Advocacy Service in Western Australia...
  • August 10, 2021
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Ms Grace Kuen Yee Tan1,2,3, Associate Professor Carmela Pestell1, Adjunct Professor James Fitzpatrick1,2,3, Professor Donna Cross1,3, Mrs. Isabelle Adams1,2,3, Dr. Martyn Symons1,3 1University Of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia, 2Patches Paediatrics, Nedlands, Australia, 3Telethon Kids Institute, Nedlands, Australia Fetal Alcohol Spectrum...
  • August 10, 2021
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Mr. Bradley Reich1,2, Assoc. Prof. Troy McEwan1,2,3, Dr. Margaret Nixon1,2 1Centre For Forensic Behavioural Science, Alphington, Australia, 2Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Australia, 3Forensicare, Clifton Hill, Australia It has been suggested that cognitive and affective factors related to interpersonal violence...
  • August 10, 2021
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Prof Mark Henaghan1,4, Dr  Jacqueline Short2,4, Dr Pauline Gulliver3,4 1University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 2Te Korowai Whariki Central Regional Forensic Service, Wellington, New Zealand, 3Health Quality & Safety Commission, Wellington, New Zealand, 4Family Violence Death Review Committee, Wellington, New...
  • August 10, 2021
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Dr David Curnow1 1Corporate Forensic Psychology, Melbourne, Australia Despite costing $4 trillion worldwide and the widespread use of a 70-year-old theory,  forensic psychology has only started to consider embezzlement as a field of interest.  Surprisingly, Cressey’s model, still drives most...
  • August 10, 2021
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Ms Ann-Maree (Annie) Fardell Hartley1, Dr Judith Crockett1, Dr  Shaun Wang1 1Charles Sturt University, Orange, Australia Psychological autopsy (PA) is one of the most valuable tools to better understand death by suicide.  Like a physical autopsy, PA attempts to synthesise...
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Ms Katherine McLachlan1,2 1Justice and Society, UniSA, Adelaide, 2Parole Board Using a trauma-informed practice framework, this presentation explains how judges of South Australian superior courts identify and understand defendant trauma in sentencing. Trauma-informed sentencing requires that judges realise the presence...
  • August 10, 2021
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