Mental health apps show promise but need to be evidence-based. A variety of mental health apps exist, but the majority have not been evaluated for effectiveness. Australian researchers conducted a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a strengths focu...

Last reviewed Feb 2020

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), launched on the 1 July 2013, aims to provide community linking and individualised support for people with permanent and significant disability, their families and carers. It represents a new way of providing support for peopl...

Last reviewed Aug 2018

First-time mother Tobi Harry was a little over a year into parenthood when she realised she could not keep going. Her son, Otto, was born the day before the first national COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, and he screamed with reflux pain for eight months. Cut off from wider sup...

Published Nov 2023

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

The newly released Australian Guidelines for the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder provide an updated and revised version of the Australian guidelines which were released in 2007. Over the past six years there has been ongoing research, inves...

Published Jun 2017

Last reviewed Jun 2023

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems - Mahatma Ghandi If you join the group of public sector psychologists practicing clinically in public health settings, there is a curious thing you will no...

Published May 2017

The latest international research shows that Autistic People are significantly more likely to think about and attempt suicide, and Autistic people are up to seven times more likely to die by suicide than the general population.This online/on-demand course aims to up-skill prac...

Family psychoeducation (FPE) interventions have been shown to reduce relapse rates and symptom levels and improve the social participation of people living with severe and persistent psychotic disorders. Although less known amongst psychologists, FPE has a well established evi...

Published Jun 2017

Currently, there is a plethora of screening tools and questionnaires to assess suicide risk. However, none of the existing instruments seem to constitute a reliable aid for suicide prediction. Fluctuations in suicide ideation represent a clear obstacle to evaluation through a ...

Published Jul 2019