Programs & Training

2010 APA Convention in San Diego

Submissions for the 2010 APA Convention program are now closed. Information about the convention is available on the Convention Website. Questions can be directed to our Program Chairs, Dawn Hughes and Kate Richmond.

2010 Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships in Dallas

February 24-26. Call for Proposals. The summit will be organized around thematic threads. Submissions can focus on one or more of the following topics: Intimate partner violence, Child maltreatment, Youth violence, Community violence, Sexual assault, Children exposed to violence, Substance abuse, Diversity/cross cutting issues, or Elder abuse and neglect. Proposal deadline: December 1, 2009.

2009 APA Convention in Toronto

Discussion Panel: Trauma Treatment in Independent Practice: Principles and Resources

This program offered a spontaneous interactive interchange between experienced trauma psychologists in independent practice, focusing on challenges and solutions for effectively working with this client population.

  • Dawn M. Hughes, Chair
  • Christine Courtois
  • Melba Vasquez
  • Lenore Walker

Symposium: Trauma Courses: The Time Has Come

This program offered a series of perspectives on teaching trauma in graduate settings, and explored how APA and its various systems for recognizing proficiences and programs might begin to intersect with training in trauma.

Symposium: Special Issues in the Clinical and Forensic Evaluation of PTSD

This program focused on specific strategies for the assessment of PTSD. The choice of assesment instruments, with particular attention to which ones would best elicit reliable and valid information from a range of populations, and the challenge of assessing both malingering and minimization were discussed.

2008 APA Convention in Boston

Symposium: Ending Long-Term Trauma Psychotherapies - Clinical and Ethical Considerations

This symposium offered wisdom from three experts in the field of doing long-term psychotherapy with survivors of complex trauma.

2008 APA Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships

Photos and materials from the first Division 56-sponsored APA Summit on Violence and Abuse in Relationships are now available for download.

2007 APA Convention in San Francisco

Symposium: Prostitution, Trafficking, Sexual Compulsivity and Trauma

This symposium considered the multi-faceted relationship between prostitution, trafficking and psychological trauma. Contributions of cultural norms about gender and violence, and issues of public policy, were explored.

Symposium: Innovations in Psychological Care for Returning War Veterans

This symposium examined the considerable and unique challenges posed for psychologists by military veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq for the involved healthcare delivery systems of the military and Veterans Administration.

Film Presentation and Panel Discussion: Deliver Us from Evil

After the showing of the film Deliver Us From Evil, a panel of experts on sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church discussed their work with survivors, the church, and the legal system.

  • Mary Gail Frawley-O'Dea, Chair
  • Christine Courtois
  • Gerald J. McGlone
  • John C. Manly
  • Patrick Wall

2006 APA Convention in New Orleans

Treating Traumatized Children and Families

This symposium, the Division's first substantive APA Convention program, was designed not only to cover a broad spectrum of topics in the field of trauma, but also to reflect the Division leadership's commitment to addressing the needs and interests of both researchers and practitioners.