Special report

June 2020 | Monica La Ferrara MAPS

The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been a new experience for us all. I found that psychologists are currently facing many of the dilemmas and same uncertainty that our own clients have been expressing to us. This pandemic has made us all more vulnerable. We certainly feel that life as we...

June 2020 | Dr Elizabeth Newnham MAPS

Nepal’s immense beauty and diversity are evident in its geography, culture and people. However, a history of significant disasters, civil war and ongoing economic instability have created conditions of hardship for many young people. More recently, the strict lockdowns implemented as part...

April 2020

In December 2019, the APS was proud to announce its official partnership with the AFL Players’ Association, AFL Coaches Association and Zurich Insurance for the delivery of the Tackle Your Feelings program. The APS put the call out to members to become involved and received close to 200...

February 2020 | Sara Donald

My journey to psychologyMy second attempt at studying psychology began in 2016 when I enrolled in the Graduate Diploma of Psychology at the University of New England. I had previously enrolled in psychology at the University of Sydney post-HSC in the 1990s, but didn’t last the distance...

December 2019 | Dr Kyra Low MAPS

I was motivated to write this article following a recent difficult interaction with another psychologist in a cafe. The incident reminded me that when we identify as psychologists in public we are representing all in the profession and we need to be mindful of how we present. Our behaviour...

August 2019 | Stuart Le Marseny MAPS

I was motivated to write this article when the comment “So you don’t work as a psychologist” was made to me by a colleague during a routine post-deployment psychological debriefing after I had just completed a six-month placement with the United Nations. Why was the comment made...

June 2019 | Tina McDonald MAPS

The APS Grant for Intercultural and/or International Projects supports innovative projects that have an intercultural and/or international focus. The 2017-18 Grant was awarded to Tina McDonald for a project titled ‘Designing and implementing inclusive education strategies for teachers and...

February 2019 | Stephanie Banner Assoc. MAPS

Stress: Finding the sweet spotWorking in psychology can present many challenges, including in managing workload and balancing ethical, legal and organisational requirements. For an early-career psychologist such challenges can bring about a degree of stress and anxiety. Over time I have drawn...

February 2019

A recent commentary by Professor Martin Milton on the novel, A Little Life, was published in The Psychologist, the member magazine of the British Psychological Society (BPS). In his article, Milton suggests that the book is “a story that every practitioner should read.”In...