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 Access to Allied Psychological Services (ATAPS) program provides funding for psychological treatment and effectively delivers services to particular communities and hard-to-reach groups. ATAPS received a significant funding increase under the Federal Government’s recent me...

Published Jan 2018

The APS recently provided a submission to the Senate Inquiry into Advertising and Promotion of Gambling Services in Sport and followed this by presenting evidence at the hearing for the inquiry. The submission was based on the APS review paper on the psychology of gambling and...

Published Jun 2017

The APS confers a range of awards and prizes each year to honour outstanding achievements in psychology. The recipients of the 2011 APS awards are profiled below. The Award recognises distinguished contributions to Australian psychology by psychologists at later career stag...

Published Dec 2017

Dr Jan Smith MAPS, a clinical child psychologist and longstanding APS member, recently became the second oldest woman to climb Mount Everest at age 68. Succeeding in her third attempt to ascend the world's highest mountain, Jan reached the 8,848-metre summit just before dawn o...

Published Jun 2017

Psychologists in private practice are operating in a business environment and by necessity, will adopt one of the various business models that function in the private practice environment. As the previous article describes, the reforms to the primary mental health system sugge...

Published Nov 2017

Psychology meeting society’s challenges 30 September – 3 October 2014, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Hobart Join us on the picturesque waterfront in historic Hobart for this wonderful opportunity to gain new skills and knowledge, hear about the latest developments in psycholog...

Published Jun 2017

Griffith University has one of the largest cohorts of Indigenous students, with 815 enrolments to date. The Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and Bachelor of Psychological Science programs attract a high number of students from around the country each year. Of the 295 students ...

Published Dec 2017

Nevo is a 22-year-old Jewish, queer, non-binary activist, public speaker and author of Finding Nevo, a thoughtful and moving memoir on gender transition. The book describes Nevo’s journey to find their identity. Assigned female at birth, Nevo has had a complex relationship ...

Published Dec 2018

Prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic around the beginning of 2020, conspiracy theories were something fun that kept you entertained and intrigued. They did not seem political in nature. Kooky at worst, they made for interesting TV shows and movies, and were something fu...

Published Sep 2023