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Conferences & Events Ltd
PO Box 1254
Nelson 7010

email:  camhs10@confer.co.nz

Phone:  +64 3 546 6022
Fax:  +64 3 546 6020
www.confer.co.nz

Keynote Speakers


Dr Ann York

Ann works in Tier 3 CAMHS, including young people in the justice and care system. Her clinical interests include neurodevelopmental disorders and depression.  She chairs the CAMHS Forum for the Trust and is an undergraduate and postgraduate trainer.

She has extensive experience in service development aimed at increasing access and effectiveness of CAMHS following successful, continuous, redesign in her own service and training in demand and capacity management.  She is intensely curious about how teams function and co-operate to make the best use of skills and time for the benefit of families. She is passionate about making services easy for young people to use, making a difference and creating change.

From April 2007 to March 2009 Ann was CAMHS Medical Advisor to the Department of Health in England. Most recently she has produced national guidance on improving access to CAMHS, chairs the advisory board for the National CAMHS Dataset and QINMAC Advisory board (standards for CAMHS). She has worked on the National NHS Contract and Payment by Results. She is a member of the CORC Board (CAMHS Outcomes Research Consortium). In the past Ann was Honorary secretary for the Executive of the Child and Adolescent Faculty of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, clinical governance reviewer for the Commission for Healthcare Improvement and advisor to the Healthcare Commission until 2009; MHRA Adviser on antidepressants 2003/04.

Joint Presentation Title - CAPA and the Challenge of Change


Dr Steve Kingsbury

Steve has a special interest in demand and capacity management of waiting times in CAMHS and has piloting several new models of working across the Hertfordshire CAMHS teams since 1993.  He has completed several days of demand and capacity training with the Modernisation agency.

He believes we can find ways to be more efficient and that we should not accept current practice just because it’s always been that way. The challenge is how to become more efficient within a quality framework.

His passion is about working with young people and their families in a respectful and open way that furthers their concerns and choices using our expertise.

His other interests are IT, attachment, ADHD and systemic practice. He has been the Honorary Secretary for the Child and Adolescent Faculty Executive of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the Chair of the general adult / child psychiatry interfaculty working group, and a Director of the national children’s mental heath charity, Young Minds. He has been a clinical service reviewer for HASCAS (the Health and Social Care Advisory Service). Steve was also the CAMHS Medical Advisor to the Department of Health in England from September 2006 to March 2007.


Joint work:
Ann and Steve have been invited to work with CAMHS around the UK to help them with service redesign through holding workshops, tailored to the needs of teams. By May 2010 they had worked with about 400 teams and 3800 staff in the UK, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia, including clinicians, managers and commissioners. In 2007 they ran 3 weeks of workshops for Adult Mental Health and CAMHS in New Zealand, at the invitation of the Ministry of Health and the Werry Centre.

They have written a book, ‘The Choice and Partnership Approach- a guide to CAPA’ and run a website to support change in CAMHS: www.camhsnetwork.co.uk


Joint Presentation Title - CAPA and the Challenge of Change

Invited Speakers


Dr Siale 'Alo Foliaki


Dr Siale 'Alo Foliaki is a graduate of the University of Otago and is currently employed by the Counties Manukau District Health Board as Clinical Director of the Pacific Mental Health Services.   He is the country's first Tongan psychiatrist.










Prof Philip C. Kendall, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Kendall has been a researcher, scholar, and clinician for 35 years.  His CV lists over 450 publications, including over 30 books and over 20 treatment manuals and workbooks.  His treatments, such as his Coping cat program for anxious youth, have been translated into dozens of languages, and he has had over 20 years of uninterrupted grant support from various agencies.  Having received many thousands of citations per year, he placed among an elite handful of the most “Highly-Cited” individuals in all of the social and medical sciences.  In a recent quantitative analysis of the publications by and citations to all members of the faculty in the 157 American Psychological Association approved programs in clinical psychology, Dr. Kendall ranked 5th.



Presentation Title - Treating Anxious Attachments in Youth: Clinical Procedures Informed by Develpomental, Cognitive and Behavioral Family Literatures.




Dr Te Kani Kingi
– Massey University

Dr Te Kani Kingi is Director of Te Mata o te Tau, The Academy for Maori Research and Scholarship at Massey University in Wellington, New Zealand. He has a specialist interest in mental health research, psychometrics, and Maori health.

He has formally been an executive member of the New Zealand Public Health Association, The Mental Health Advocacy Coalition, and the National Ethics Advisory Committee.  He currently sits on the National Health Committee, the Public Health Advisory Committee, the Pharmacy Council and is Chair of the New Zealand Mental Health Commission’s Advisory Board.

Presentation Title - He Hokinga Mahara, he Kitenga Huarahi: A Memory From the Past, a Pathway to the Future



Banu Moloney
– President of Victorian Association of Family Therapists

Banu Moloney is a lecturer at the Bouverie Centre, la Trobe University in the postgraduate Family Therapy Courses. She has over 25 years experience as a family therapist with a special interest in working with children and adolescents in the context of their families.

She is a qualified Social Worker, Psychologist and family Therapist. Banu has many years experience in designing and conducting training programmes in family therapy, counseling and consultation to a wide range of organisations. Banu has also been involved in the Centre for Grief Education in curriculum development and delivery in the graduate Diploma in Child and Adolescent Grief Counseling.

Presentation Title - Family Therapy


Marti Eller - Ministry of Social Development

Marti Eller is General Manager Operations at Family and Community Services, a division of MSD responsible for initiatives and programmes that provide support, ideas and services to help families to manage their own growth within supportive communities. FACS work is with community organisations and communities themselves who are working to make change early in the life of a problem, to reduce the need for government intervention in that family's life. Examples of FACS work are the SKIP parenting approach, the "It's not OK" campaign and stewardship of Strengthening Families local management groups.

Marti has worked in local and national Government managing relationships  between the community sector and Government across the employment, education, justice and social development fields. She has worked over the last year with Minister Bennett's advisory group as they developed an alternative approach to community based funding decisions, and she is looking forward to the implementation of this approach - and to your ideas about how this can happen!!

Presentation Title - People Helping People


Andrew Beattie - Youth Justice Co-ordinator
Presentation title to follow


Workshop Presenter


Dr Denise Guy

Dr Denise Guy is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with specialty expertise in Infant Mental Health. She has a strong commitment to education and supervision for clinicians from many disciplines working with children, their families and wider systems. She is currently Vice-President of the Infant Mental Health Association Aotearoa New Zealand (IMHAANZ). She is involved in supervision and training for the Watch, Wait, and Wonder Intervention.


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