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

An election for the APS President-Elect and two General Director positions on the APS Board of Directors was held by postal ballot and electronic voting, and the results were declared at the 2013 APS AGM in October. The successful candidate for the President-Elect is Professor...

Published Jun 2017

As part of the APS’s commitment to meeting the needs and expectations of members, the APS conducts a large scale member satisfaction survey at the end of each calendar year. The 2016 APS member satisfaction survey was conducted online over a two week period in December with 23...

Published Jul 2017

The context Western Australia’s Department of Education, employs over 300 school psychologist FTE, equating to 400 psychologists, providing services to students (Kindergarten to Year 12) across 800 public metropolitan, regional and remote schools. The School Psychology ...

Published May 2017

The first anniversary of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) in July this year has provided a timely opportunity to review the impact, implications and challenges of the roll-out of the Scheme across trial sites for consumers and for service providers, particularly...

Published Jun 2017

The terms art therapy and play therapy are used by different professions and occupations to mean different things. This can cause confusion for counselling clinicians when choosing quality postgraduate training in art and play therapy that is suitable for a counselling context...

The APS hosts this activity with the APS Psychology & Ageing Interest Group (PAIG).  The webinar will report on a literature review identifying the capacity of psychosocial interventions to address self-efficacy in older adults. Results of the literature review will be pres...

This webinar will provide an outline of how eating disorders develop and will touch on the evidence on the neurobiological factors that may cause eating disorders, the brain function of individuals with eating disorders in comparison to those without, and the extent to which e...

The Medical Board of Australia (MBA) and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) recently announced new practice guidelines for people undertaking cosmetic surgery and non-surgical cosmetic procedures. These reforms apply to doctors practising in comestic ...