Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a psychological disorder that can develop following exposure to a potentially traumatic event (PTE), that is, one that involves exposure to actual or threatened death, serious injury or sexual violence. Re-experiencing the trauma in the ...

Published Jun 2017

Youth involved in the justice system typically present with a range of systemic issues that underpins their offending behaviour. They are often from the most disenfranchised and impoverished backgrounds that have been influenced by transgenerational trauma. Their individual n...

Published Jun 2017

Moving beyond cultural competence As an Aboriginal psychologist, who for some years has worked out of an Aboriginal Medical Service (AMS) in northwest New South Wales, I have often had people referred to me after they requested to see an Aboriginal psychologist. My first th...

Published Mar 2021

Sifting through chronic and severe conditions with understanding, predictions and flexible planning Often misunderstood or underestimated, so-called ‘dirty’ neuropsychology plays an important role in predicting outcomes and establishing treatment plans for patients with sev...

Published Dec 2021

APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists Elizabeth Mullaly Elizabeth has been a neuropsychologist for 35 years, and currently works in private practice and as a senior neuropsychologist at the Caulfield Hospital Memory Clinic. She has previously worked as a senior mana...

Last reviewed Apr 2020

Over the past three decades, there has been a significant growth of interest in the study of individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although physical disabilities are associated with TBI, the more prominent and common impairments are psychological in nature and involve...

Published Jun 2017

Learning disabilities The diagnostic category of learning disability has much less relevance in Australia than it does in the United States of America where it is tightly tied to the provision of funding. In Australia, the broad term learning difficulties is most commonly u...

Published Jun 2017

The APS has been actively following the concerns related to unpaid superannuation amounts for psychologists who provided services for Open Arms – Veterans and Families Counselling Service, formerly Veterans and Veterans’ Families Counselling Service (VVCS) dating back to 2012....

Last reviewed Apr 2026

In Australia, the role of a clinical neuropsychologist within dementia-related services mainly focuses on issues of diagnosis, carer support and decision-making capacity. This partly reflects financial and time constraints in the employment and use of neuropsychology services,...

Published Jun 2017

An election for two General Director positions on the APS Board of Directors was held by postal ballot and electronic voting, and the result was declared at the AGM in Sydney on 16 October 2010. The two successful candidates are Mr Tim Hannan FAPS and Professor Trang Thomas...

Published Jun 2020