Membership news

June 2017

To renew your APS membership for 2017-18, you can pay by any number of partial payments as long as the final payment is received by 31 July 2017. You can also pay by direct debit on a quarterly basis, and after your first payment, the remaining three instalments are debited on 1 September 2017, 1...

June 2017 | Mick Symons and Lainy Henderson

Nearly three years ago, the APS introduced a new pathway to the grade of Member which recognised psychologists.

April 2017 | Michael Di Mattia, et al.

Counselling psychology is the second largest applied field of psychology in Australia, with 954 psychologists holding endorsement as a counselling psychologist (Psychology Board of Australia, 2016) and approximately 1,000 members of the APS College of Counselling Psychologists. While Australian...

April 2017

As part of the APS’s commitment to meeting the needs and expectations of members, the APS conducts a large scale member satisfaction survey at the end of each calendar year. The 2016 APS member satisfaction survey was conducted online over a two week period in December with 2314 members (12...

April 2017 | Mick Symons

BackgroundThe current APS Code of Ethics was approved by the APS at its AGM in September 2007. The previous version was approved in September 1997, and the one before that was in 1986. The last process of review took just under two years and involved transforming the 1997 domain-based Code to the...

April 2017

Expression of InterestLodging an Expression of InterestMembers of the APS who wish to lodge an Expression of Interest should complete the form.Applicants will need to:review the selection criteria and complete the background information statement in the application form, setting out the knowledge...