Across Australia there is a growing interest in the consequences of trauma in children and adults. In December 2017 the Royal Commission presented a final report after a five-year inquiry into institutional responses to child sexual abuse and related matters. The organised nat...

Published Jun 2019

Elsie Harwood Award Alex McCord Thesis title: Effects of Action Video Game Training on Executive Function in Older Adults A provisional psychologist practising in aged care, Alex completed her BA summa cum laude at City University of New York, followed by Honours and ...

Last reviewed Jun 2020

Many factors and processes operate in the classroom to affect academic learning. These factors and processes can be broadly categorised into two groups: will and skill (Covington, 1992). ‘Will’ refers to student motivation, while ‘skill’ refers to the knowledge and competencie...

Published Jun 2017

Research into cognitive abilities has made significant advances over the last couple of decades, culminating in the rise of the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) model. CHC is regarded by many leaders in the field, such as Professor Alan Kaufman, as the most empirically well-validate...

Published Jun 2017

The Award recognises distinguished contributions to Australian psychology by psychologists at later career stage. President’s Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology in Australia Trang Thomas AM Emeritus Professor Trang Thomas FAPS holds this appointment at...

Published Jun 2017

Older people as a group show more variability on virtually any psychological characteristic than younger groups (Morse, 1993; Nelson & Dannefer, 1992). Within the older group, there is probably no other patient population that presents such diversity for the psychologist than ...

Published Jun 2017

International experts on fear and anxiety disorders, attentional control theory and language impairment are among keynote speakers who will address the 47th Annual APS Conference, to be held in Perth in September this year. The Conference, scheduled from Thursday 27 to Sunday ...

Published Jun 2017

A schema-focused approach to the military-to-civilian transition As a clinical psychologist, I have spent the past 10 years exploring how service life impacts soldiers and what this means for their military-to-civilian transition (MCT). Transition from the Australian Defenc...

Published Dec 2021

Exploring the model in practice Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a non-pathologising, powerfully transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy which has taken the therapy world by storm in the past decade. Developed in the 1980s by Dr Richard Schwartz, the IFS model...

Published Jun 2022

Psychologists running their own businesses inevitably come up against the issue of clients not paying their fees on time for a variety of reasons, such as illness, loss of job, sudden travel or dissatisfaction with the service. Psychologists are usually sympathetic to the f...

Last reviewed Jan 2024