The changing face of disability services: The National Disability Insurance Scheme
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In August 2011, the Productivity Commission released its report into disability care and support in Australia. The report determined that disability services in Australia were underfunded and unfair in that the provision of services varied according to a number of factors such...
Published Jun 2017
Evidence-Based Psychological Interventions
The Evidence-based psychological interventions in the treatment of mental disorders: A literature review (5th Ed.) was published in December 2024.
The purpose of this updated review was to provide an overview of the empirical research evidence for a range of psychological i...
Last reviewed Feb 2025
Ten things the psychology profession wants to see in May’s Budget
In its 2026-27 Pre-Budget Submission, the APS is calling for:
National psychology workforce strategy
Psychology Commonwealth Prac Payment
Collaborative benchmarking of AI and Digital Mental Health Services
APS Disaster Response Network (DRN)
Medicare reba...
Last reviewed Feb 2026
What you need to know about the government's first National Autism Strategy
The federal government has released its National Autism Strategy 2025-2031, outlining the vision for a safe and inclusive society for all Autistic people. Here’s what this could mean for psychologists and where improvements could be made.
Note: When referring to 'autism' i...
Last reviewed Jan 2025
Psychodynamic psychotherapy: The evidence is in
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The current issue of American Psychologist includes an article by Jonathan Shedler, an associate professor at the University of Colorado, titled ‘The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy' (Shedler, 2010). The publication of this article signals a growing recognition within ...
Published Jun 2017
Past adoption practices: Implications for current interventions
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During the mid to late twentieth century (1940s to 1980s), it was common practice for babies of unwed mothers to be adopted by married couples. Many of the infants were taken from their mothers at childbirth as a result of extreme pressure and coercion that they experienced fr...
Published Jun 2017
Adapted DBT for Intellectual Disability - With Dr Joseph Allan Sakdalan
Non-APS Event
Summary
This 2-day live 'virtual' workshop aims to upskill practising mental health professionals in the use of use of Adapted Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Coping Skills for Cognitively Impaired Clients with Challenging/Offending Behaviours.
Course Overview
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The opportunities and challenges of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
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The first anniversary of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in July this year has provided a timely opportunity to review the impact, implications and challenges of the roll-out of the Scheme across trial sites for consumers and for service providers, particularly...
Published Jun 2017
To cry or not to cry: The need for increased choice in behavioural sleep interventions parents
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A first baby in the household brings with it many challenges, the most common being that of parental sleep disruption due to the child’s night waking (France & Blampied, 1999). Whilst typically developing infants (under six months old) need to be fed overnight, the challenge f...
Published Jun 2017
The medical model has failed to reduce stigma
Time for ‘clinical psychological problems’ to re-emerge
What I have learned...
I studied and trained in clinical psychology in the 1970s. This was a time when CBT, with its superior face validity, was growing out of behaviour therapy, which was nicely evidence-based and...
Last reviewed Aug 2025