Sleep is a building block essential for our physical and mental wellbeing, potentially providing a period of restoration but also a time when we do not have to think, feel or act. However, when sleep is disrupted the result may be one of feeling tired, grumpy and cheated, wher...

Published Jun 2017

Simon Crowe was awarded the 2013 APS Distinguished Contribution to Psychological Education Award for his outstanding contributions to teaching at all levels of the psychology curriculum, from the secondary school level through to undergraduate and postgraduate lecturing and su...

Published Jun 2017

New guidelines for psychologists The past two years have been challenging for us all and traumatic for many. The COVID-19 pandemic and its associated hardships, combined with other recent disasters such as drought and bushfires, have led to significant levels of psychologic...

Published Dec 2021

Prevalent, but often difficult to pin down Specific learning disability (SLD) is the most prevalent of the neurodevelopmental disorders. It is commonly known as phonological dyslexia, which means, ‘a disorder of reading and spelling’, but this makes up only one component of...

Published Dec 2021

Across Australia there is a growing interest in the consequences of trauma in children and adults. In December 2017 the Royal Commission presented a final report after a five-year inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and related matters. The organised nat...

Published Jun 2019

Elsie Harwood Award Alex McCord Thesis title: Effects of Action Video Game Training on Executive Function in Older Adults A provisional psychologist practising in aged care, Alex completed her BA summa cum laude at City University of New York, followed by Honours and ...

Last reviewed Jun 2020

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

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

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

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