7 ways to futureproof your skills as an early career psychologist
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Think systemically: Understand clients in the context of families, schools, communities and broader systems.
Use technology wisely: Embrace AI for efficiency but always prioritise ethics and clinical judgment.
Lead with human connection: Empathy and...
Last reviewed Jul 2025
How to optimise performance and reduce stress when applying for a Master of Psychology
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Only one in five or six psychology undergraduates gain a spot in a Master of Psychology program each year, despite growing demand for mental health professionals.
Career experience doesn’t have to be paid or clinical. Volunteering, mentoring,...
Last reviewed Jul 2025
Psychologist funding cap in NT: ‘This is going to be felt in rural and remote communities’, APS in T
This article is featured in The Daily Telegraph and is republished with permission.
Psychologists warn regional services could be cut in the NT as working in rural and remote areas becomes more unrealistic.
It follows after the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)...
Last reviewed Jun 2025
Nine actions the incoming government must take to support psychology in Australia
Summary of APS's key election items:
Access and funding for mental health services
Protect and support psychology within the NDIS
Youth mental health
Growing the psychology workforce
Empowering victim-survivors of domestic and family violence
Making aged care m...
Last reviewed May 2025
Federal Election Statement 2025
Psychologists are being asked to do more in a system that has not kept pace with demand. People are waiting too long, psychologists are stretched, and too many people are missing out on psychology services.
We have put forward a set of strategic actions to bring about pract...
Last reviewed Apr 2025
APS welcomes $1 billion mental health package as meaningful step toward system-wide reform
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The Australian Psychological Society (APS) has welcomed the Australian Labor Party’s election announcement of a $1 billion mental health package.
The promised investment includes an additional 500 postgraduate psychology student places as part of an investment that include...
Published Apr 2025
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
Diversity as the key to a successful company group practice model
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Business models at work…
Chris Mackey and Associates has been operating as a group practice for more than 20 years. Chris, the practice director, reports that central to the practice’s success is a strategic focus on maintaining sufficient diversity in all areas of the busi...
Published May 2017
Dr Karl Wiener
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Karl has been a full member of the APS since the mid 1980s and became an APS Clinical College member in 2000. Karl has worked in clinical, organisational and forensic settings since 1985. After receiving his PhD in 2008, he commenced his professional growth by becoming a senio...
Last reviewed Jan 2021
Pay for therapy or rent? The heartbreaking mental health choice faced by Emily’s clients
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Some weeks, psychologist-in-training Emily Radford has to choose between paying for rent or therapy. It’s a decision many of Radford’s clients face as well.
While some are on the NDIS, meaning the government subsidises their sessions for ADHD, autism and other complex con...
Published Apr 2023