Education and research

August 2014 | Karen Coghlan

Over 950 delegates and guests attended the 2014 Conference of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists, held in June at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne and opened by the Victorian Minister for Health, the Hon David Davis MLC. It was, by far, the most successful and well attended of the sequence of...

June 2014 | Associate Professor Ross King

The existing categorical method for the diagnosis of personality disorders (PD) was identified as one of the biggest gaps in the DSM-IV-TR and there has been strong empirical and theoretical support to replace it with a dimensional-based approach (First et al., 2002). Five key problems with the...

June 2014

International perspectives on the future of psychology, the importance of affect in health behaviours, and integrating positive psychology into practice and research will be presented by prominent keynote speakers at this year’s Annual Conference under the theme ‘Psychology meeting...

June 2014

The 2014 APS College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists conference was held from 28 to 29 March at the Rendezvous hotel in Melbourne and was attended by over 227 delegates from Australia and overseas. Under the theme Consultant, client and context: Enhancing academic and social...

June 2014

Tahnee McBean, an Aboriginal postgraduate psychology student undertaking a Master of Psychology (Clinical) at the University of Melbourne, is the 2014 recipient of the APS Bendi Lango bursary. The APS bursary is funded through generous donations from APS members, who contributed more than $27,000...

April 2014 | Professor Simon Crowe

Simon Crowe was awarded the 2013 APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Education Award for his outstanding contributions to teaching at all levels of the psychology curriculum, from the secondary school level through to undergraduate and postgraduate lecturing and supervision. Simon has...

April 2014 | Professor Michael Kyrios

While acquisition and saving are necessary for survival and social functioning, excessive buying and hoarding disrupt and even endanger the lives of affected individuals, their families and communities. Until its recently published fifth edition, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental...

February 2014 | Jill Giese MAPS, Executive Officer, APS National Office

From 1 July this year, the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) will require provisional psychologists undertaking the 4+2/5+1 internship training pathway to pass a national psychology examination to gain general registration as a psychologist. The PsyBA has introduced the national examination...

February 2014 | Professor David Kavanagh

At first glance, the complexity of substance-related and addictive disorders in DSM-5 appears daunting. In DSM-IV, the equivalent group of disorders had more diagnoses than any other, with over 100! While DSM-5 has simplified the area considerably, it still has over 50 diagnoses.Fortunately, the...