| Session Time | Session Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 8:45 - 9:15am | Registration | |
| 9:15 - 9:30am | Opening Address: Bob Cummins | |
| 9:30 - 10:30am | Keynote Address: Professor Michael Pusey "The impact of economic restructuring on quality of life" |
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| 10:30 - 11:00am | Morning Tea | |
| Session Time | Session One (A) Measurement Issues |
Session One (B) Quality of Life and Health |
| VC's Office Chairperson: Isaac Prilleltensky |
Main Room Chairperson: RoseAnne Misajon |
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| 11:00 - 11:30am | Bailey: An ethical defense of the utilization of an ideal theory of quality of life for the purposes of making best interests decisions in acute medical and nursing practice. | King: The Quality of Life of People with Multiple Sclerosis and Their Partners: Newly Diagnosed versus Long Term Diagnosed. |
| 11:30 - 12:00pm | O'Connor: Damning with faint praise: Indefensible weaknesses in health-related quality of life instruments. | Austin: The Quality of Life of Mentally Ill People Living in the Community. |
| 12:00 - 12:30pm | Kober: Factor Stability of the Schalock and Keith (1993) Quality of Life Questionnaire Quality of Life and Health |
Morris: Tertiary Students' Stories of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. |
| 12:30 - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| Session Time | Session One (A) Subjective Quality of Life |
Session One (A) Psychological Well-being and the Natural Environment |
| VC's Office Chairperson: Bob Cummins |
Main Room Chairperson: Richard Eckersley |
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| 1:30 - 2:00pm | Garretto: Life satisfaction homeostasis and the role of personality | Gullone: Life in the 21st Century: Increasing Mental Health or Increasing Pathology? |
| 2:00 - 2:30pm | Cousins: The Subjective Quality of Life of Carers of People with Mental Illness. | Bagot: Contact with nature and positive affect: An evolutionary analysis |
| 2:30 - 3:00pm | Misajon: Quality of Life and Sense of Coherence in People with Arthritis | Shaw: Children and Nature |
| 3:00 - 3:30pm | Afternoon Tea | |
| Session Time | Session Three Conceptual Issues in Quality of Life Study | |
| Chairperson: Eleonora Gullone | ||
| 3:30 - 4:00pm | Prilleltensky: Balancing personal, relational, and collective wellness. | |
| 4:00 - 4:30pm | Croft: Perceived control and subjective well-being. | |
| 4:30 - 5:00pm | Eckersley: A national index of subjective well-being. | |
| 5:00 - 5:30pm | Drinks and Quality of Life Centre Launch | |
| 5:30 - 6:00pm | General Discussion: OzQol to be chaired by Bob Cummins | |