Destruction of client files
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Maintaining secure and confidential records is a corner stone of psychological practice. Clients can feel comfortable to share information, with the knowledge and assurance that their psychologist upholds these principles of confidentiality and security. With recent news abo...
Last reviewed Aug 2024
Managing clients at risk of suicide
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Supporting clients at risk of suicide can be one of the most professionally challenging and distressing situations that psychologists face throughout their careers.
Working with such clients requires balancing ethical considerations such as client safety, client privacy, an...
Last reviewed May 2023
How to manage the end of a therapeutic relationship
In Summary:
Ending therapy can trigger grief, anger, confusion, or attachment-related reactions in clients.
Responses may vary by attachment style: anxious clients may cling or protest, avoidant clients may withdraw, and trauma histories can intensify reactions.
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Last reviewed Aug 2025
The do's and don'ts of client session notes
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InPsych
The first ‘do’ is you must write session notes! Taking adequate session notes (or ‘progress notes’) is part of the important review and planning associated with providing an ongoing psychological service, and is one of the ethical obligations of psychologists. Session notes fa...
Published Jun 2017
APS at the forefront of ensuring evidence-based practice
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InPsych
Fifteen years ago the APS followed the APA in releasing a position statement about the potentially harmful effects of engaging in forms of psychological practice that attempt to change a person’s sexual orientation. Given the lack of empirical evidence about such practice at t...
Published Jun 2017
Destruction of client files
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InPsych
Maintaining secure and confidential records is a cornerstone of psychological practice. Clients can feel comfortable to share information, with the knowledge and assurance that their psychologist upholds these principles of confidentiality and security. With recent news about ...
Published Nov 2022
Applying the Social Determinants of Health in everyday practice: Lessons from the APS Congress
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InPsych
At the 2016 APS Congress held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre from 13-16 September, the APS Public Interest team convened a forum to discuss and showcase the valuable application of a Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) approach in everyday psychological pra...
Published May 2017
Befriending the Tiger: Exploring resilience and wellbeing on the frontline
Non-APS Event
Over time, exposure to the trauma and suffering of others can take a toll. Mental health professionals, lawyers, corrections services staff, prison officers, magistrates, judges, police, first responders and teachers come into daily contact with individuals who may be highly t...
The misunderstood world of palliative care
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InPsych
There are many misconceptions about palliative care. For example, that it means death is imminent and, as such, is ‘God’s waiting room’. It may also be thought of as the withdrawal of all active or effective treatment, that health professionals have given up, that it hastens d...
Published May 2019
Psychologists’ use of titles, qualifications and postnominals in professional communications
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InPsych
The APS receives regular queries from members about the correct way to refer to and list qualifications on business cards, and the proper use of postnominals (the letters listed after one's name) associated with APS membership.
With the advent of national registration and e...
Published Jun 2017