Overview

The Psychology Board of Australia will from 1 December 2025 use its Code of Conduct to regulate psychologists’ professional practice instead of the Australian Psychological Society’s Code of Ethics it has been using since 2010. Psychologists will therefore have to familiarise themselves with this new Code of Conduct. The purpose of this webinar is to examine the nature of the new Code of Code and the impact it will have on the professional practice of psychologists, with particular focus on applications in the practice of Forensic Psychologists. The webinar will consider the adjustments that psychologist will have to make after 1 December. Specific issues arising, and applications in forensic settings will be identified and examined.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this event, participants should be able to:

• Understand changes to professional practice with the new Code
• Identify and appreciate issues regarding application of the Code within forensic practice settings
• Problem solve and manage requirements for practice under the new Code

Presenter(s)

About the presenter(s)

Emeritus Professor Alfred Allan is a lawyer-psychologist who specialises in mental health law and ethics and whose main non-legal-ethical research interests are in emotional regulation, violent and bullying behaviour, and corrective behaviour after transgressions. He has been teaching professional law and ethics to medical, nursing, psychiatry, and psychology trainees since 1977 and forensic psychology since about 1992. He is endorsed by the Psychologists Board of Australia (PsyBA) as a clinical and forensic psychologist. He publishes widely in psychology, legal and medical journals, was a member of the inaugural PsyBA, is the chair of the Standing Committee on Ethics of the International Association for Applied Psychology and was elected a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society (APS) in 2009. He is also a former Fellow of the APS’ Colleges of Clinical and Forensic psychologists and is a past national chair of the latter. He has served on the boards of national professional organisations and journals and is still a member of the editorial boards of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine and Ethics and Behavior. He has served on various state government committees focussed on managing sexual and violent offenders. He is the author of several books and chapters. He was previously chair of the Australian Psychological Society’s (APS) Ethics Committee and the committees that reviewed the APS Code of Ethics and was a member of the PsyBA’s Code Expert Advisory Group. He still works as a legal-ethical consultant, expert witness and research supervisor.

Notes

Target Audience

This event is aimed at Forensic Psychologists and those working in forensic settings.

Duration of Access

This event will be recorded. The recording will be emailed to all registered within 2 weeks post event and available for viewing up to 90 days.

CPD

It is up to attendees to assess and determine how learning from this event aligns with the requirements of their learning plan. The providers accordingly do not make any representation that the event counts towards attendees’ CPD learning requirements. If an attendee determines themselves that the learning they complete aligns to their learning plan, then they can decide to count those hours towards their CPD requirements for the registration cycle.

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