Education and research

June 2013

From 1 July this year, new mandatory supervisor training regulations will be introduced by the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) that will apply to all psychologists who provide supervision for 4+2/5+1 internships, the PsyBA registrar program, and higher degree student placements. This...

June 2013

Psychologists and those in training for the profession undertake a variety of formal and informal supervision arrangements in order to maintain and develop their professional competence. Psychologists who provide supervision frequently find themselves holding dual or competing roles as...

June 2013

Internationally recognised experts on ethics in psychology, the perils of sedentary behaviour, child conduct disorder, and forgiveness have been secured as keynote speakers for this year’s APS Annual Conference. The 48th APS Annual Conference, running from Tuesday 8 to Sunday 12 October...

June 2013

The inaugural APS Health Psychology Conference was held on the 5th and 6th of April at the Pullman International Cairns and attracted over 150 delegates from across Australia and overseas. Under the theme Improving community and individual health, the Conference delivered an exciting, thought...

June 2013

Rebecca Smyth, an Aboriginal postgraduate psychology student undertaking a Masters of Educational and Developmental Psychology at Queensland University of Technology, is the 2013 recipient of the APS Bendi Lango bursary. The APS bursary is funded through generous donations from APS members, who...

April 2013

‘Publish or perish’ is a mantra highly familiar to academic and research psychologists, who are expected to undertake research and disseminate their findings to a wide audience through publications. However, for psychologists who want to publish their research but do not have access...

February 2013 | Dr Sabine Hammond, Dr Nikolaos Kazantzis

The APS journal program provides an important benefit to members of the Australian Psychological Society. The journals are a central avenue for the dissemination of advances in the science of psychology and their application in professional practice. The Australian Journal of Psychology (AJP...

February 2013 | Karen Coglan

The 18th annual APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (CCN) conference was held in Launceston in late November 2012. It was attended by more than 250 delegates including over 50 students, who were excited and reinvigorated by the diverse program of workshops, lectures, symposia, ‘how...

February 2013 | Karen Coglan

The 4th annual conference of the APS College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists (CEDP), themed Theory to Practice: Emerging trends in personality development, autism and learning, was again held in Melbourne in November 2012. The conference, which attracted over 180 delegates...