Education and research

June 2015 | Vicki Webster, Professor Paula Brough

In Australia, workplace health and safety legislation effectively holds employers responsible for ensuring the emotional, psychological and physical wellbeing of employees. Stress compensation claims may be lodged by affected employees if they perceive an employer has breached this responsibility...

June 2015

This year’s 50th APS Annual Conference – our Golden Jubilee Conference – will feature keynote and invited addresses from six distinguished psychologists. There will also be an array of sought-after workshops and boutique talks from prominent psychologists, in addition to the...

June 2015

The 4th APS Forensic College Conference 2015 was held at the Sydney Masonic Centre on 16-18 April, and attracted more than 315 attendees over three days of workshops and papers.Four outstanding keynote addresses demonstrated the wide range of forensic psychological endeavour, as well as the close...

June 2015

The APS Health College held its second Health Psychology Conference on 10-11 April in Sydney under the theme Facilitating health behaviour change and maintenance. The conference program featured 94 presentations covering a range of topics in the areas of translating research into practice...

April 2015 | Cate Cheetham, Julia Kuring, Dr Tony Kneebone

‘Better knowledge, Better outcomes’ was the theme of the Adelaide conference, which began with a keynote address looking at ethical issues in the management of sports-related concussions.The conference theme of the 20th APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists Conference in November...

April 2015

Counselling and other psychologists gathered in Melbourne for the annual APS Counselling Psychology Conference earlier this year to hear how the sub-discipline is tackling challenges in Australia and abroad.The 2nd APS Counselling Psychology Conference was held from 26 February to 1 March at The...

April 2015

Last month’s ‘Close the Gap Day’ (March 19) provided the opportunity for the APS to take stock of its formal efforts towards supporting Indigenous mental health equality. Based on findings between 2012-13, 30 per cent of Indigenous Australians report very high levels of...

February 2015

Psychologists have an obligation under the APS Code of Ethics to base their services on research evidence and it is therefore important to keep abreast of new developments in psychology. One of the challenges for psychologists without links to academic or research institutions can be obtaining...

December 2014 | Associate Professor Marie Joyce

Marie Joyce was the 2014 recipient of the APS President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in Australia. Here Marie discusses her involvement in an innovative project that delivered higher education via the internet to refugees in a camp on the Thai-Burma border.This story...