Understanding the Medicare audit process
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This edition’s column focuses on the results from the Department of Human Services’ most recent audit of providers of Medicare services under Better Access. It aims to assist members to avoid inadvertent non-compliance and to understand what to expect if selected for auditing....
Published Jun 2017
InPsych June/July 2020 Digital Edition
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Due to restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak, the April/May edition of InPsych will be online-only. Click the button below to download:
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Last reviewed Jun 2020
Manage outstanding client debts
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Psychologists running their own businesses inevitably come up against the issue of clients not paying their fees on time for a variety of reasons, such as illness, loss of job, sudden travel or dissatisfaction with the service. Psychologists are usually sympathetic to the fina...
Published Jun 2017
Client debts: How to manage
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Psychologists running their own businesses inevitably come up against the issue of clients not paying their fees on time for a variety of reasons, such as illness, loss of job, sudden travel or dissatisfaction with the service.
Psychologists are usually sympathetic to the f...
Last reviewed Jan 2024
From will to skill: The psychology of motivation, instruction and learning in classroom
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Many factors and processes operate in the classroom to affect academic learning. These factors and processes can be broadly categorised into two groups: will and skill (Covington, 1992). ‘Will’ refers to student motivation, while ‘skill’ refers to the knowledge and competencie...
Published Jun 2017
Why can’t Jonny read? Bringing theory into cognitive assessment
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Research into cognitive abilities has made significant advances over the last couple of decades, culminating in the rise of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model. CHC is regarded by many leaders in the field, such as Professor Alan Kaufman, as the most empirically well-validate...
Published Jun 2017
2014 APS Awards recipients
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The Award recognises distinguished contributions to Australian psychology by psychologists at later career stage.
President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in Australia
Trang Thomas AM
Emeritus Professor Trang Thomas FAPS holds this appointment at...
Published Jun 2017
Roles of psychologists in assessing and treating dementia
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Older people as a group show more variability on virtually any psychological characteristic than younger groups (Morse, 1993; Nelson & Dannefer, 1992). Within the older group, there is probably no other patient population that presents such diversity for the psychologist than ...
Published Jun 2017
International experts to address 2012 APS Conference in Perth
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International experts on fear and anxiety disorders, attentional control theory and language impairment are among keynote speakers who will address the 47th Annual APS Conference, to be held in Perth in September this year.
The Conference, scheduled from Thursday 27 to Sunday ...
Published Jun 2017
The military mode
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A schema-focused approach to the military-to-civilian transition
As a clinical psychologist, I have spent the past 10 years exploring how service life impacts soldiers and what this means for their military-to-civilian transition (MCT). Transition from the Australian Defenc...
Published Dec 2021