Draft Program

 
Meeting for NAC Board 

 
Center Hotel Plaza
Meeting Room: Hekla

      8:30 - 9:00                                                                                       

Registration & Coffee

 Berjaya Reykjavík Natura Hotel 

9:10

Opening of the Nordic meeting

Elísabet Hrund Salvarsdóttir, 
Chairperson of NAC

9:25

The integration of services for the benefit of children and the philosophy behind it

Ólöf Ásta Farestveit
General Director National Agency for children and families

10:00

My experience working in the
adoption field

Rut Sigurðardóttir
Social Worker and family therapist
Heiða Þorleifsdóttir
Social Worker

10:25

Coffee break

10:45

The effects of early life trauma later in life

Bergdís Wilson
Psychologist

11:20

Perceived discrimination and mental health among international adoptees

Kristin Gärtner Askeland,
clinical psychologist and senior researcher

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch

Berjaya Reykjavík Natura Hotel 
Buffet at in-door restaurant, Satt

13:05

ICAV - Online Lecture

Lynelle Long
Founding Executive Director of ICAV

13:30

Group travel to Colombia - Lessons learned

Anna Guwert and
Anna Taxell

14:20

Adoptions and Attachment disorders: The Importance of adoptive parents forming relationship with their adopted children following adoption

Hanna Björk Atreye Sigfúsdóttir

14:45

Coffee break

15:00

Crafting of Identity among transnational
and/or transracial adoptees

David Asplund,
Cultural anthropologist

15:45

Panel & Discussion

Closing Remarks

Moderator: Elísabet Hrund Salvarsdóttir
Chairperson of NAC

16:30

Break

19:00

Dinner* 

* For participants who have registered
and payed for the dinner upon registration 

Center Hotel Plaza
Meeting Room: Hekla