CGU presents a series of webinars to provide practitioners with useful and practical guidance on a range of topics focussing on insurance claims. This webinar will provide a summary of recent case examples and practical guidance on psychologist conduct, sexual misconduct an...

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 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 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 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...

There is an overrepresentation of neurodivergence, including autism and ADHD, in the criminal justice system (CJS). The interaction between CJS and neurodivergence has been fraught with challenges, with few existing supports to appropriately meet the needs of this population. ...

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 ...