Education and research

October 2011

The Psychology Board of Australia recently announced that a national psychology examination will be implemented from 1 July 2013 for applicants seeking general registration. The Consultation Paper on Guidelines for the National Psychology Examination, published by the Psychology Board in April...

October 2011

The end of the first annual continuing professional development (CPD) cycle under the new arrangements is imminent, and all CPD requirements must be met by 30 November 2011. There is a complex array of mandatory CPD requirements for maintenance of general registration with the Psychology Board of...

October 2011 | Dr Kate Simpson

The APS study tour of Spain in May-June, 2011 provided a wealth of knowledge on the culture, history, sovereignty and religious influences of Spain. The study tour, led by Isabel Stepanik and Professor Trang Thomas, flew into Barcelona and commenced with a lesson in Spanish speaking and an...

October 2011

The 2011 APS Clinical College Conference was held from 15 to 17 July, 2011 at a captivating resort location in the Sunshine Coast – Hyatt Regency Coolum – which attracted nearly 430 delegates. This was the first Clinical College conference since 2003 and came at a time of many changes...

August 2011 | Dr Stephen Provost

Stephen Provost was the recipient of the 2010 APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychology Education Award and has a particular interest in enhancing the educational experience of psychology students in rural and regional Australia. The importance of laboratories for practical skills acquisition...

August 2011 | Psychology Conference

Some 600 delegates from Australia and ten other nations attended the 9th Industrial and Organisational Psychology (IOP) Conference held from 23-26 June, 2011 at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The theme of the conference was Connectivity in a dynamic world: Human connection in a...

June 2011 | Vicky Mrowinski

Free access to the online Psychology and Behavioural Sciences Collection database was launched as a new APS member benefit in late April, and has been enthusiastically received by members. The psychology literature database, hosted by EBSCO, provides access to over 550 full-text journals across a...

June 2011 | Dr Nicholas Voudouris & Dr Mick Hunter

The Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF), first created by the Federal Government in 1995, is Australia’s single national system of descriptors, guidelines and protocols for qualifications issued across education and training sectors, including higher education, vocational education...

June 2011 | Associate Professor Timothy Carey, Areana Eivers, Joe Coyne, Carly Madgen and Associate Professor Reginald Nixon

Access to quality mental health services is an ongoing problem in Australia (Morley et al., 2007) particularly in rural and remote locations, with disproportionate numbers of psychologists practising in metropolitan centres (Dunbar et al., 2007). One way to encourage psychologists to consider...