Education and research

December 2012 | Professor Alfred Allan

Nearly 1,000 enthusiastic delegates from around Australia and 17 other countries converged on the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre on the banks of the Swan River for the 47th APS Annual Conference in late September. Amongst them were nearly 200 members of the School Psychology Association...

December 2012

There is a complex array of continuing professional development (CPD) requirements associated with maintenance of APS membership, registration with the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) and Medicare provider status, and recent changes have brought more uniformity to the way compliance with...

October 2012 | Professor Simon Crowe

Professor Simon Crowe FAPS, APS President 2010-12Psychology 2020: The 2011-12 Presidential Initiative on the future of psychological science in AustraliaThe report is available for download here. Hard copies can be obtained by emailing [email protected] their term of office, each...

August 2012 | Professor Simon Crowe

A very interesting piece of information recently published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry may show just what an impact psychologists have on the mental health of Australians. The study, conducted by Atlantis, Sullivan, Sartorius and Almeida (2012), reviewed Australian...

August 2012 | Professor Greg Murray

Late in 2011, the APS formed an Expert Reference Group to oversee an APS submission on the draft criteria for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). The APS viewed it as important for Australian psychologists to have a voice in revisions to the DSM, as...

August 2012

Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, 27–30 SeptemberThe 47th APS Annual Conference will be held in Perth in September at the state-of-the-art Convention and Exhibition Centre, conveniently situated between the Swan River and the city. The Conference program features an extensive array of...

August 2012 | Karen Coghlan

The 2012 APS Clinical Psychology Conference was held from 29 June to 1 July at the Sheraton on the Park in Sydney and it was extremely pleasing to have 560 delegates in attendance. The Conference delivered an outstanding program and brought together prominent practitioners and researchers under...

June 2012

As a professional society, the APS requires its members to undertake continuing professional development (CPD) as a condition of maintenance of membership. This is in order to promote the maintenance and improvement of quality services offered by members in a manner which demonstrates the...

June 2012 | Emeritus Professor Geoff Cumming

Geoff Cumming was the recipient of the 2011 APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Education Award.In April 2009, people rushed to Boots pharmacies in Britain to buy No. 7 Protect & Perfect Intense Beauty Serum. They were prompted by media reports of an article in the British Journal...