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14th APS Board of Directors
The Board of Directors governs the Society and has overall responsibility for pursuing its Mission, determining the Strategic Plan and priorities, monitoring implementation and developing a resource base to enable its achievement. The Board is the ultimate decision-making and policy-setting body. It is also responsible for the financial viability of the Society and ensuring compliance with statutory requirements applicable to a company.
The President and all other non-executive Directors are elected by Members of the Society to act in what the Board considers are the best interests of the Society, being the interests of the membership as a whole. More information about the Board of Directors and its responsibilities to members is available in the Society's Constitution.
President: Amanda Gordon
Ms Amanda Gordon FAPS
BA (Hons Psych)
Amanda Gordon is a Sydney-based psychologist, who runs a large private practice: Armchair Psychology Practice. She also works regularly in the media, promoting psychology and its capacity to enhance individual and community wellbeing. Amanda is a member of the APS Colleges of Clinical and Health Psychology, and has been involved in the governance of various APS units over more than twenty years. Before being elected President in October 2004, Amanda served as Director of Communications for three years, and Vice President of the Board for two of those years.
Amanda has previously lectured part-time in psychology at the Queensland University of Technology, the University of Sydney and the University of NSW. She currently presents courses for the University of Sydney Centre for Continuing Education. She is also a member of the Clinical Reference Panel for beyondblue.
Amanda is the Founder of the Bendi Lango Foundation for the provision of bursaries for indigenous psychology students, a member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Interest Group of the APS and a past member of the NSW Reconciliation Council. A member of the Asylum Seekers Support Group of NSW, she is also on the Detainee Health Advisory Group to the Department of Immigration and Citizenship. Amanda is a Board member of the Allied Health Professions of Australia.
Amanda is an alumnus of Sydney Leadership; and has previously served as Chair of Austcare Refugee Week committee, and as Vice President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
Amanda can be contacted at a.gordon@psychology.org.au
President-Elect: Professor Bob Montgomery
Professor Bob Montgomery FAPS
PhD
Bob Montgomery is in independent practice on the Gold Coast in clinical, health and forensic psychology, as well as organisational consulting. He is heavily involved in providing PD for psychologists and other health professionals. For more than 30 years he has alternated university posts with private practice. His academic positions have included Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at La Trobe University, first Professor and Head of Psychology at Bond University, visiting Professor at the Universities of Hawaii and Oregon and most recently Professor of Psychology at the University of Canberra. In 2006 he was appointed Adjunct Professor in Psychology at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Bob established a firm of consulting psychologists in Melbourne in 1981 and for 13 years worked in full-time private practice. He has re-established this practice in Southport since 2005.
Bob was elected a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society in 1991 and is currently a Member of the Colleges of Clinical, Forensic, and Health Psychologists. He is also a member of the Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy, the Australasian Society of Behavioural Health & Medicine, and the Australian and New Zealand Association for Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.
Bob has published extensively in scientific and professional journals and is the author of thirteen self-help books.
Bob has been a member of the Board of Directors since October 2004 and he can be contacted at drbob@drbobmontgomery.com.au
Executive Director: Prof Lyn Littlefield
Professor Lyn Littlefield OAM FAPS
BSc, BBSc (Hons), Dip Ed, MPsych, PhD
Lyn Littlefield was appointed as Executive Director in July 2001. She has been a Member of the Society since 1980 and is a member of the APS Colleges of Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, and Community Psychologists. Lyn was previously the inaugural director of the Victorian Parenting Centre, and Head of the School of Psychological Science at La Trobe University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Institute of Management, and currently sits on a number of Boards.
Lyn can be contacted at l.littlefield@psychology.org.au
Mr Quentin Black
Mr Quentin Black
BSc (Hons), M App Psych
Quentin was elected to the Board of Directors in 2007. He has been a member of the Society since 1992 and is a member of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists and the APS Interest Groups, Psychologists for Peace, Buddhism and Psychology, and Child, Adolescent and Family Psychology.
Quentin has worked as a registered psychologist in NSW and SA, he has worked in the public sector as a clinical and forensic psychologist, and in private practice since 1993. Quentin has held teaching positions at the three South Australian universities and is currently Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He has run a successful private research company since 1992 and in that time managed a wide variety of commercial research projects. In addition to an ongoing active interest in organisational psychological research, he is presently a member of the Work and Stress Research Group in the Centre for Applied Psychological Research at the University of South Australia where he is a chief investigator in a current ARC Linkage project and a PhD candidate in the field of organisational psychology.
Quentin can be contacted at quentin.black@unisa.edu.au
Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg
Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg FAPS
MA, Dip Ed, Dip Clin Psych, PhD
Erica Frydenberg has had a long professional association with the Australian Psychological Society as past Chair of Victorian Branch, member of Executive, and as a Fellow of the Society. She has more recently been a member of the Fellowship Advisory Group. She has been active in the Victorian Branch of the Society and a member of the National Executive in the mid 1980's and has been active on a range of associated committees. Since the 1990's she has been on the National Executive of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists, Chair, Continuing Education, served on the Professional Development Task Force, been an Associate Editor of the Australian Psychologist, Co-convenor Editorial Board, Psychology and You (publication of the Victorian Branch), Convenor of the Working Party on Supervision for Membership of the Board of Educational and Developmental Psychologists and the book Review Editor of the Australian Psychologist. She has served two terms on the Psychologists Registration Board of Victoria.
Her professional career has included practice in mental health in the United Kingdom, extensive practice of school psychology in Victoria and since the 1990's she has held a position as an academic at the University of Melbourne where she is an Associate Professor she has taught and led a program of training for school psychologists.
She is a member of the Colleges of Clinical, Organisational, Counselling and Educational & Developmental Psychology. Since 1990 she has authored and co-authored, 7 books and published extensively in the field of coping across the lifespan.
Erica was elected to the Board of Directors in October 2006 and she can be contacted at e.frydenberg@unimelb.edu.au
Ms Anne Lipzker
Ms Anne Lipzker MAPS
BA (Hons), MA
Anne is delighted and challenged to be joining the Board at this time of hugely significant change for psychology practice in Australia. Anne brings to her new Board role knowledge gained from a long work history of clinical practice and strategic development in the public health sector, an understanding of the vicissitudes of rural and regional psychology and broad experience in the provision and organization of professional development and support.
She is a clinical psychologist, trained in Montreal and Melbourne, who is currently the Coordinator Child & Adolescent Mental Health on the NSW North Coast. She has also worked in Early Childhood Development, Child & Family Health, Adult Mental Health and Psychology Services across clinical, educative and administrative domains in both Victoria and NSW. Anne is also currently involved in the implementation in NSW of the accreditation of supervisors, providing some of the non-metro training opportunities.
A member of the APS from student days, her APS activism and advocacy dates from her move to the north coast of NSW in the early '90's. She was a founding member of the NSW North Coast Branch of the APS in 1994 and has continued to coordinate its professional development activities. She sees it as an important feature of this role that, through collaborative planning of some joint PD events, partnerships have been fostered with other professional groups and sectors, such as Divisions of General Practice, psychiatry and paediatrics and the legal profession.
As a clinician with recognized strategic skills, Anne has also been an integral member of working parties and advisory groups to the APS - on Professional Development, Rural Practice, Workplace Issues, Newsletter Communication, and Public Initiatives.
Her move from Melbourne to Northern NSW 17 years ago served as a catalyst for her current interest in cross cultural differences in therapeutic and community practice. In presentations and programmes she has highlighted the significant differences and considerable strengths in the provision of rural health and psychology services when compared with metropolitan-based practice. In both her workplace and APS endeavours, she has worked to ensure that these differences are more clearly recognised and acknowledged in the planning and provision of high-quality clinical and support services in a rural setting.
Anne was elected to the Board of Directors in October 2006 and she can be contacted at: Anne.Lipzker@ncahs.health.nsw.gov.au
Dr Iain Montgomery
Dr Iain Montgomery FAPS
BPsych, MA, PhD
Iain Montgomery was a Foundation Member of the Society, and in 1994 was elected Fellow.He has been active in Branch affairs for more than 30 years, and at national level has held the positions of Treasurer of the Division of Scientific Affairs (1989 - 1993), Member of the Committee on Ethical and Professional Standards (1989 - 1994), Member of the Committee on Tests and Testing (1989 - 1992), Member of the Fellowship Advisory Group (2003 and 2004) and Member of the Program Development and Accreditation Advisory Group (1997 - present).
Since he began working as a psychologist in 1965, Iain has gained broad experience from his roles as a practising clinical psychologist, a senior administrator of psychologists, an academic and a head of a department of psychology, and a chairperson of a Psychologists' Registration Board.
In 2003 Iain retired from the University of Tasmania and now holds an Honorary Senior Lectureship at that institution. Iain was elected as Director of Training and Standards at the 2004 AGM.
Iain has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2004 and he can be contacted at iain.montgomery@utas.edu.au
Dr Kate Moore
Dr Kate Moore MAPS
BA, Grad Dip App Psych, MSc, DipClin Mental Health (Hypnosis), Cert Acct, PhD
Kate Moore's research cover depression and anxiety, stress and coping.
She is a member of the College of Health Psychologists and the College of Organisational Psychologists. Prior to commencing the study of psychology as a mature-age student, Kate worked as an accountant in several organisations, and served as Treasurer of the Australian National Association of Mental Health for some years.
Kate has been a member of the APS for 15 years, convener of the Psychology and Relationships Interest Group, and past Treasurer of the College of Health Psychologists.
Kate has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2005 and she can be contacted at kate-moore@abundex.com.au
Professor Trang Thomas
Professor Trang Thomas AM FAPS
PhD
Trang Thomas is Professor of Psychology at RMIT University, a member of the College of Counselling Psychologists and was APS Director of Science between 2001 - 2005.
She has first class Honours from University of NSW, Master with Honours from Macquarie University, Ph.D from La Trobe university and Graduate Diploma from the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Trang has been on the board of SBS, Council for Adult Education, Victorian Casino and Gaming Authority, National Health and Medical Research Council, Alzheimers' Australia, and was Assistant Human Rights Commissioner.
She has received several awards including the Alumni Achievement award from the University of NSW, Inaugural Distinguished Alumni award from La Trobe University and made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Trang was elected to the Board of Directors in October 2006 and she can be contacted at trang.thomas@rmit.edu.au
Professor Trevor Waring
Professor Trevor Waring AM FAPS
Professor Waring is a clinical psychologist with almost 40 years experience of working in mental health. He is a Conjoint Professor of Psychology at the University of Newcastle where he is also the Chancellor. He was President of the NSW Psychologists Registration Board and Chair of the National Council of Psychologists Registration Boards for 14 years, retiring in November of 2006.
Professor Waring’s clinical experience includes 17 years as a clinical psychologist in a major outpatient psychiatric service and 12 years as Director of the Hunter Institute of Mental Health and Deputy Director of the Hunter Centre for Mental Health Studies. He has also been in private practice for more than 25 years and was made a member of the Order of Australia in 2004 for his work in mental health and psychology.
Trevor has been a member of APS Board of Directors since 2007 and can be contacted at chancellor@newcastle.edu.au
