Workshops

All workshops will be held on Saturday November 26,2011 at the conference venue, The Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne. Cost is per workshop as indicated on the registration form and conference website.

Please note that for delegates attending the workshops, morning tea/afternoon tea and lunch is provided.

All workshops will commence at 9.30am and conclude at 4.30pm.

• Workshop One
• Workshop Two

Workshop one

Diagnosing Learning Disabilities

Prof Nancy Mather

This all day workshop will focus on the understanding how various cognitive and linguistic abilities can contribute to learning problems in reading, writing, and mathematics. The presenter will review how a pattern of strengths and weaknesses can inform an LD diagnosis.  Several case studies will be used to illustrate different types of learning problems. 

Workshop two

Coping as a Positive Psychological Tool: What we have learned and how we can develop skills to build resilience - with Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg

This all day workshop will make the links between theory and practice. It will review the major theories and language that can be used to both describe the way we cope but also to enhance our coping skills. Measurement tools such as the Adolescent Coping Scale-2 and the Coping Scale for Adults along with recent research in assessing early years coping will be utilised to help identify concepts and constructs which can subsequently be used for behavioural change. The second half of the workshop will focus on programs to teach coping. Three approaches will be considered, namely, the self-help book, Coping for Capable Kids, written for young people, their teachers and their parents, the self-paced Coping for Success CD-Rom program, the Best of Coping, a pencil and paper coping skills program that can be used in individual or group settings or the recently published, Thinking Positively: A Program to Develop Coping Skills in Adolescents, Applications will be outlined along with evaluations of the programs will be considered.

About Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg FAPS
Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg FAPS is a clinical, organisational, and educational psychologist who has practiced extensively in the Australian educational setting before joining the staff of the University of Melbourne where she is an Associate Professor in psychology in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and served on the Board of the Society. She has authored 8 books,  over 100 academic journal articles and chapters in the field of coping, published psychological instruments to measure coping and developed programs and a CD-Rom to teach coping skills. Adolescent Coping: Advances in Theory, Research and Application was published by Routledge in London in May 2008 and Think Positively: A Course for Developing Coping Skills in Adolescents was published by Continuum in London in May 2010. Early Years Coping Cards were published by the Australian Council for Educational Research in 2011.  The Adolescent Coping Scale-2 and Success and Dyslexia: Sessions for Coping in the Upper Primary Years are scheduled for publication in September 2011 by Australian Council for Educational Research and Developing Children’s Coping in the Early Years will be published by Continuum in London in January 2012.

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