Commonly occurring mental health disorders – depression, anxiety, stress-related and substance use disorders in adults, and behavioural and anxiety disorders in children – will be experienced by an alarming 45 per cent of Australians in their lifetime, according to the Nationa...

Published Jun 2017

Importance of self-care and professional quality of life Providing treatment to individuals suffering from mental health issues is a rewarding but challenging job. Psychologists have been shown to have high burnout rates, low self-care and numerous challenges to professiona...

Published Dec 2021

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

Most people are likely to experience traumatic events in their lifetime, and most individuals recover well, given time and adequate social support. For some individuals, however, the experience of a traumatic event or ongoing exposure to trauma can result in post-traumatic ...

Last reviewed Oct 2022

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

Psychology Week 2022 27 November – 3 December Psychology Week 2022 is just around the corner. Earlier this year we announced that the focus for Psychology Week is children and adolescents’ social, psychological, and developmental health and invited you to participate...

Published Nov 2022

The APS has this year convened a new Advisory Group to the Board of Directors focused specifically on issues associated with the profession and practice of psychology in regional, rural and remote Australia. The primary objective of the Regional, Rural and Remote (RRR) Advisor...

Published Jun 2017

This position statement provides the APS position in relation to refugee mental health and wellbeing within the Australian context. It assists and encourages psychologist engagement with refugee issues as researchers, academics, practitioners, students and citizens. It prov...

Last reviewed Sep 2019

This week, APS President Dr Catriona Davis-McCabe and APS CEO Dr Zena Burgess took part in the 6th Annual Emotional and Social Wellbeing Forum in Perth discussing two pressing issues facing our communities: trauma and its ongoing impacts on children as well as coercive control...

Published Mar 2023

A new website developed under the auspices of the APS and launched at this year’s Annual Conference will assist service providers seeking to develop, or improve, a culturally appropriate service for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. To assist in better meeting the...

Published Aug 2017