Zac Steel #ACOTS2021

Professor Zachary Steel, President of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (https://www.astss.org.au/) helps us prepare for the 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress, which is taking place online on 14-18 Sep 2021.The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health.This year’s conference theme lays down a challenge to us all in our enduring quest to improve outcomes for those impacted by trauma. The Scientific Committee has brought together a range of international and national keynote speakers who bring their own distinct perspective to challenge the trauma field.Plenary sessions, panel discussions, clinical tutorials and papers will represent a range of interests and current issues in trauma research and practice.This year ACOTS will be a virtual conference using the highly awarded EventsAIR platform in partnership with ICMS to provide a conference platform that will allow real-time interaction and small group online meeting places and discussion groups. Those of you who had the opportunity to join the recent International Childhood Trauma Symposium will have seen what a great digital platform they provided.We have maximised the benefits of a virtual platform to ensure that an engaging live event with real opportunities to interact and an ongoing digital resource that you can view and access for 12 months.Conference website: https://www.acots.org/Conference programme: https://www.acots.org/conference/conference-program/Twitter coverage of the conference: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ACOTS2021&src;=typed_query&f;=live Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.