This guide explores the issues associated with the assessment of young people with CALD backgrounds and outlines best-practice principles to improve psychologists’ knowledge and practice when working with this group. View resource  

Last reviewed Jul 2023

Specific learning disorder (SLD) sits within the broad category of neurodevelopmental disorders in the DSM5. First manifesting during the school-age years, it is characterised by persistent and impairing difficulties learning foundational academic skills in reading, writing an...

Published Jun 2017

Trevor Waring was the recipient of the 2011 APS President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in Australia. There have been significant milestones in the dramatic rise of psychology in Australia over the last 40 years. The exponential growth in university t...

Published Jun 2017

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

Each year the APS recognises members who have made an outstanding contribution to the APS and to the advancement of psychological knowledge or practice by electing them as Fellows of the Society. Nineteen members were elected as APS Fellows in 2014. Dr Diane Bretherton OAM ...

Published Jun 2017

There has been some debate following the advice in the February 2013 InPsych ‘Q & A’ article on psychological tests and testing in relation to using new versions of psychological tests as soon as they become available. The advice given was that when updated versions of test...

Last reviewed Mar 2018

Each year the APS recognises members who have made an outstanding contribution to the APS and to the advancement of psychological knowledge or practice by electing them as Fellows of the Society. Sixteen members were elected as APS Fellows at the 2011 APS Annual General Meetin...

Published Aug 2017

In 1963, the American psychologist and educator Samuel Kirk announced that he had coined the term ‘learning disabilities’ to refer to the academic difficulties exhibited by some children in the absence of intellectual disability, or sensory impairments. Fifty years on, it...

Published Jun 2017

Working in child, adolescent and family psychology By Rita Princi I began my studies as a mature age student and mother of two, so I am aware of the importance of providing children with appropriate role models. I pursued a career in the field of child, adolescent and fa...

Last reviewed Apr 2017

Working as a psychologist in the military With Glen Menezes I was a soldier in the Australian Regular Army, employed as a clerk and studying psychology part-time, when I was selected to complete my fourth year qualification on an Army sponsorship. I have subsequently com...

Last reviewed Apr 2017