Special report

June 2016

During the 1980s and 90s, the APS emerged as a large, truly nationwide and valued organisation.In the 1990s, the Society had a renewed approach to promoting psychology and improving the profession. The APS was increasingly concerned with addressing issues that were important to practitioners...

June 2016 | Kevin McConkey

Kevin McConkey is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of New South Wales. A graduate of the University of Queensland (UQ) (BA Hons 1976; PhD 1980), he has held academic and management positions at universities in Australia, Canada, China, and the USA. A former President (1993-1994)...

April 2016 | Dr Melissa A. Day

Chronic pain is a pervasive, major public healthcare concern. Approximately 3.2 million Australians live with chronic pain (Pain Australia, 2014), which costs $34.4 billion annually (Pfizer, 2011). Chronic pain disproportionately affects older individuals, and given that the projected number of...

April 2016 | Dr Emma Sciberras

Emma Sciberras was one of the 2015 recipients of the APS Early Career Research Award which recognises excellence in scientific achievement in psychology among psychologists who are in the early stages of their research careers in Australia.Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a...

April 2016

The development of psychology’s Code of Ethics was about setting high standards for the professionThe practice of psychology affects the intimate lives and wellbeing of mankind and should be undertaken only by persons of the highest professional integrity. It is therefore the responsibility...

April 2016

Professor Alfred AllanProfessor Alfred Allan is qualified in law and psychology and a registered psychologist with clinical and forensic endorsements. He is currently Professor of Psychology at Edith Cowan University, Perth. He has taught law, psychology and professional ethics in Law, Medical...

February 2016

As post-war psychology grew it remained vulnerable because anyone could call themselves a psychologist. To highlight the learning and expertise of genuine psychologists, the profession needed to impose standards of learning, behaviour and conduct, regulating who could qualify to call themselves a...

February 2016

Professor Don Thomson FAPSDon Thomson is Professor of Psychology, Deakin University, and Adjunct Professor of Law and Justice Studies, Edith Cowan University. He is Chair of the APS Ethical Guidelines Committee. Don was President of the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria from 1991-1994...

December 2015

Celebrating 50 yearsPsychology was well placed to embrace the social change of the 1960s and 1970s. Observing the “desire for enriched personal experiences, closer interpersonal relationships and a fairer social order” in 1977, Keith Taylor and Ron Taft predicted that psychologists...