Last reviewed Feb 2023

Grief can cause physical sensations such as a tight chest, aches and pains and headaches, driving sufferers to turn to treatments like counselling, support groups, self-care and medication to help navigate the rollercoaster of emotions. According to the Australian Psycholog...

Published Oct 2025

APS has collated useful resources, guides and more to help the psychology profession spread an important message to mark World Mental Health Day (10 October) - strong mental health is an everyday practice.  As psychologists know, mental health and wellbeing is more than the...

Last reviewed Oct 2025

Australia's peak body for psychology, The Australian Psychological Society (APS) is encouraging communities this World Mental Health Day to treat their mental health like they do their physical fitness - and build it through micro-moments of wellbeing.   “For too long, ment...

Published Oct 2025

The APS Prize is awarded to each student who gains first place at the end of an accredited fourth-year program in psychology through an Australian higher education provider. The APS is thrilled to announce our 2024 APS Prize winners below. Full name Higher e...

Last reviewed Sep 2025

As part of its commitment to promoting community mental health awareness and psychological wellbeing, for the fourth consecutive year the APS commissioned a stress and wellbeing survey of a representative sample of the Australian adult population. The survey provides a year-on...

Published Jun 2017

The APS has recently revised and updated a review of evidence-based interventions for mental disorders, which was first undertaken and published by the APS in 2003 to support the Federal Government's Better Outcomes in Mental Health Care program. The revised Evidence-based psy...

Published Jun 2017

Professor Marybeth Shinn is a community psychologist who has conducted research on homelessness in the United States for over two decades. Studies have included longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of risk factors for homelessness, and experimental studies of interventions...

Published Nov 2017

The floods across the Eastern States, particularly in areas such as Toowoomba and the Lockyer Valley in Queensland - with their heavy toll on life and property - will leave thousands deeply affected. The extent of devastation has been such that, for many, it will be a long tim...

Published Jul 2017

What constitutes ‘antisocial behaviour’ varies across time, context and culture. Nonetheless, when we think about behaviour that is antisocial we usually think about people who have acted in ways that are aggressive, intimidating or destructive and which negatively impacts on ...

Published Jun 2017