Education and research

April 2012 | Jill Giese MAPS

Mandatory training requirements will be introduced by the Psychology Board of Australia (PsyBA) for all supervisors of trainee psychologists from June 2013. The requirements for supervisors, which are currently in a transition phase, will result in a stringent national process for training and...

April 2012 | David Stokes

Psychology as a discipline does not attract many Indigenous students, so promoting psychology as a serious option of study for young Indigenous people to consider may increase enrolments. This means promoting psychology for those considering a university education as well as those who are in...

April 2012

Three postgraduate psychology students are the 2012 recipients of APS bursaries for the financial assistance of people of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, funded through generous donations from APS members which raised more than $30,000 towards this year’s award fund. The APS...

February 2012 | Caroline Giles, Dr Rebecca Mathews

Publication of the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), scheduled for May 2013, has become a controversial and much anticipated event for the mental health professions and the field of psychology. There have been five revisions of the DSM since it...

February 2012

REMAINING UP TO DATE WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH – A PSYCHOLOGIST’S OBLIGATIONThe discipline of psychology is changing rapidly. The rate at which new psychology-related research data are published in reputable scientific journals is ever increasing. Some psychologists have estimated...

February 2012 | Karen Coghlan

The 17th annual APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists (CCN) conference was held in Sydney in November 2011. The conference theme, ‘The challenges of evidence-based neuropsychology’, was exceptionally well received by 250 delegates attending over four days. The conference was...

February 2012 | Karen Coghlan

The 3rd annual APS College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists (CEDP) conference, themed ‘Theory to practice: Positive development and wellbeing’, was held in November 2011 in Melbourne with over 250 delegates attending. The aim of the conference was to promote a broad...

December 2011 | Professor Don Byrne

Between 4 and 8 October 2011, nearly 700 psychologists from around Australia and beyond met in Canberra for the 46th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society. The long tradition of these annual meetings of the Society – where Australian psychologists join together to share...

December 2011 | Dr Nicholas Voudouris

The APS has had a longstanding program of advocacy in place aimed at improving funding for the psychology discipline in higher education. Advocacy efforts were ramped up from 2004 when the Federal Government reduced the funding of Commonwealth-supported postgraduate places in psychology by some...