Assisting members to meet the new CPD requirements
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InPsych
From 1 July this year, the Psychology Board of Australia (PBA) introduced new mandatory continuing professional development (CPD) requirements, which are a necessary condition of maintenance of registration as a psychologist under the new national registration scheme. All CPD ...
Published Jun 2017
Recent changes to APS CPD requirements and processes
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InPsych
As a professional society, the APS requires its members to undertake continuing professional development (CPD) as a condition of maintenance of membership. This is in order to promote the maintenance and improvement of quality services offered by members in a manner which demo...
Published Jun 2017
Review selects Aon as APS endorsed professional indemnity insurance broker
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InPsych
The APS regularly undertakes a comprehensive process to select a high quality professional indemnity insurance product to recommend to its members at competitive premiums. This process has recently been completed after seeking tenders from six insurance brokers, and following ...
Published Jun 2017
Indigenous postgraduate psychology student awarded APS bursary
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Rebecca Smyth, an Aboriginal postgraduate psychology student undertaking a Masters of Educational and Developmental Psychology at Queensland University of Technology, is the 2013 recipient of the APS Bendi Lango bursary. The APS bursary is funded through generous donations fro...
Published Jun 2017
Did you know?
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InPsych
To renew your APS membership for 2017-18, you can pay by any number of partial payments as long as the final payment is received by 31 July 2017. You can also pay by direct debit on a quarterly basis, and after your first payment, the remaining three instalments are debited on...
Published Jul 2017
Indigenous postgraduate psychology student awarded APS bursary
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InPsych
Tahnee McBean, an Aboriginal postgraduate psychology student undertaking a Master of Psychology (Clinical) at the University of Melbourne, is the 2014 recipient of the APS Bendi Lango bursary. The APS bursary is funded through generous donations from APS members, who contribut...
Published Jun 2017
APS advocacy and initiatives for employed psychologists
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InPsych
As well as its support and advocacy for psychologists in private practice, the APS engages in a range of activities to support those who are employed in public sector settings and non-government organisations (NGOs). There is sometimes the perception that the APS works mainly ...
Published Jun 2017
Reflections as the new President but an old member
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InPsych
I write this note, my first as President, 20 years after joining the APS as a graduate. At that time, the APS was already approaching 50 years since its origins in 1944 as a branch of the British Psychological Society, and had celebrated 25 years since its establishment as an ...
Published Jan 2018
Change to CPD requirements for FPS Medicare providers
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InPsych
The Federal Government has recently announced that psychologists who provide Medicare Focused Psychological Strategies (FPS) items are no longer required to undertake 10 hours of FPS-related continuing professional development (CPD) in order to maintain their Medicare Provider...
Published Jun 2017