Members were invited to participate in the online 2015 member satisfaction survey in December last year, which gauged member satisfaction with the APS activities and provision of services around key areas of work. Over 3,400 members participated in the survey, including 459 st...

Published May 2017

As part of the APS’s commitment to meeting the needs and expectations of members, the APS conducts a large scale member satisfaction survey at the end of each calendar year. The 2016 APS member satisfaction survey was conducted online over a two week period in December with 23...

Published Jul 2017

I’d like to express my gratitude for the emails and notes of support I received following my call for unity and growth in my first report as APS President. Our capacity to impact on national policies regarding registration, accreditation, training standards, research, the upco...

Published Jun 2017

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

In early 1998, the Howard Government overhauled Australia’s employment services, by dissolving the Commonwealth Employment System and replacing it with Job Network, now Job Services Australia. A network of private and community organisations are now contracted by the Federal G...

Published Jun 2017

The newly released Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder provide an updated and revised version of the Australian guidelines which were released in 2007. Over the past six years there has been ongoing research, inves...

Published Jun 2017

We wish to acknowledge the custodians of each of the lands that we work on, and pay our respects to our Elders past, present and emerging. We pay respects to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health practitioners who are working with our people. Professor Pat Dudgeo...

Published Jul 2018

The three-part ABC television series Making Australia Happy was screened in November 2010. The series took the science of positive psychology to the streets in Marrickville, a suburb in inner-city Sydney, and followed eight individuals as they completed an intensive eight week...

Published Dec 2017

Family support and wisdom aids recovery from war trauma. American researchers examined posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, wisdom and resilience among Iraqi Chaldean refugee high school students in Detroit, USA. There were 98 students who completed a survey; 14 of whom ...

Last reviewed Jan 2021

"I will not work with older adults”, Sally, an early-career psychologist exclaimed during a meeting to discuss further career options. She explained that during a university placement, she spent a few days on an inpatient psychogeriatric rotation. She spoke with heavily medica...

Published May 2017