Dr Deirdre Palmer - Presentation 

Prof Howard Liddle - Presentation 1 

Prof Howard Liddle - Presentation 2 

Prof Travey O’ Leary Tevyaw - Presentation 

Dr John Howard - Presentation 

YOUNG PEOPLE, ALCOHOL, AND DRUGS: A WORLD OF SOLUTIONS 

Date:  FRIDAY MAY 23RD 2008

Venue: O’ REILLY HALL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND   

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS 

DR DEIRDRE PALMER, University College Dublin and Health Service Executive, Ireland.  Dr Palmer is a clinical psychologist with the Health Service Executive.  Her primary research interest is substance use and family functioning among young people.  She will present on...

YOUNG PEOPLE, ALCOHOL, AND DRUG USE: A SURVEY OF 492 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE SOUTH EAST OF IRELAND

PROF HOWARD LIDDLE,  Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA.  Prof Liddle is an expert on the development and evidenced-based refinement of effective family therapy intervention for young people who engage in substance misuse.  His work has been recognised through career achievement awards from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, the American Family Therapy Academy, and the American Psychological Association.  He is widely published and his work includes “Adolescent Substance Abuse: Research and Clinical Advances” (2006) published by Cambridge University Press.  He will present on...

EFFECTIVE FAMILY-BASED INTERVENTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ENGAGE IN SUBSTANCE MISUSE. 

PROF TRACEY O’ LEARY TEVYAW. Assistant Professor of Research, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Brown University Centre for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Rhode Island, USA.  Prof Tevyaw is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and has numerous book chapters on the topics of using CBT, brief intervention, and motivational enhancement in young people who engage in substance misuse.  She will present on...

REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE FOR MOTIVATIONAL ENHANCEMENT AND OTHER BRIEF INTERVENTIONS FOR ADOLESCENT SUBSTANCE USE. 

DR JOHN HOWARD,  Senior Lecturer and Consultant Clinical Psychologist, National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.  Dr Howard was a member of the Technical Steering Committee of the WHO’s Department of Child and Adolescent Health and Development for 6 years, and since 1992 he has been a consultant to WHO, UNICEF, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Arab Council on Childhood and Development, on street youth/children in developing countries and the health of male adolescents.  He has worked at the WHO/HQ in Geneva and completed field-work in India, the Philippines, South Africa and Egypt.  Since 1999 he has consulted to the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), with field-work in Lao PDR, Viet Nam, China and Thailand on capacity-building for the community treatment of young drug users. He will present on...

BUILDING COMMUNITIES TO WORK EFFECTIVELY WITH ALCOHOL AND DRUG USE IN YOUNG PEOPLE. 

YOUNG PEOPLE, ALCOHOL, AND DRUGS: A WORLD OF SOLUTIONS 

Date:  FRIDAY MAY 23RD 2008

Venue: O’ REILLY HALL, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, IRELAND   

JMHM 2007 CONFERENCE: Emotional Intelligence, Mental Health & Juvenile Delinquency   

JMHM CONFERENCE 2008 - Young People, Alcohol and Drugs: A World of Solutions 

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