Why should chronic pain matter to psychologists? Chronic pain, the experience of pain for longer than three months, is a common and costly experience for the Australian community. Based on our present population, we could expect to see around five million Australians living...

Published May 2017

As the government regulator for the psychology profession, the Psychology Board of Australia's (PsyBA) core role is to protect the public. One of the key ways the PsyBA does this is to investigate and act on concerns raised about individual psychologists through the ‘notificat...

Published Jun 2017

Perspectives from the APS Psychology of Relationships Interest Group Although understanding relationships is important to just about every area of psychology, the members of the APS Psychology of Relationships Interest Group (PORIG) have a particular interest in understandi...

Published Jul 2017

Consumers show benefits from an effective, affordable and destigmatising mental health reform Last month marked the seventh anniversary of the introduction of the Better Access initiative, which saw psychological treatment services for people with mental health disorders in...

Published Jun 2017

The costs of disunity Divisions within the psychology profession over the two-tier Medicare rebate structure are once again threatening to derail advocacy for the maintenance of current funding for the highly successful Better Access initiative. Over the last few months, AP...

Published Jul 2017

Join us in Hobart for the 2026 APS College of Clinical Psychologists Conference. Discover the latest research, innovative therapies, and practical strategies shaping clinical practice. Connect with leading experts and peers who share your passion for improving mental health c...

Empathy is generally considered indispensable to the therapist-client relationship. In his 1957 highly influential paper, ‘The necessary and sufficient conditions of therapeutic personality change’, Carl Rogers discussed the role of empathy in bringing about positive client ch...

Published Nov 2018

Dementia is the most common threat to loss of legal capacity among the elderly, although other conditions giving rise to brain injury such as a stroke may also impact upon capacity. A diagnosis of dementia is not evidence that a person lacks capacity. Whilst the progression of...

Published Nov 2017

Recently there has been a great deal of media interest in suggestions of serious long-term health effects in former United States National Football League (NFL) footballers, resulting from concussion in their playing days. Some commentators have described the incidence of post...

Published Jun 2017

Despite the fact that it was first described in the psychiatric literature more than 100 years ago, it is only in the past 25 years that compulsive buying disorder has begun to be researched. Among the initial papers, a 1994 paper by McElroy, Keck, Pope, Smith and Strakowsk...

Published Aug 2017