News and updates

January/February 2010: Psychology education and training in the spotlight

The debate about specialist registration for psychologists under the new National Registration and Accreditation Scheme has resulted in some misleading and inaccurate media reports which have questioned the standard of education and training of Australian psychologists and criticised the APS and its Executive Director. The APS has responded to these reports by reiterating its support for specialist registration and high standards of practise for Australian psychologists, and has actively sought to ensure that accurate information is available to the government and the community.

Background information on education and training of registered psychologists in Australia

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Letter to the Editor: Sydney Morning Herald 

• Read Letter to the Editor

Letter to the Editor: The Daily Telegraph 

• Read Letter to the Editor

Presentation: The APS's position on PBA proposed registration standards

• View presentation (APS members only)

28 January 2010: Scam warning 

The APS has become aware that the new National Registration Scheme is providing opportunistic individuals with the chance to try and fool people into spending money on effectively worthless services.

There are two scams that we are currently aware of, one involving emails being sent to APS members chasing up outstanding membership payments and the other being an application for inclusion in a national register, with no undertaking as to the privacy of that information or the value of being included in its register.

The email purporting to be from APS Membership seeking membership renewal payment was sent from the address callitris2@bigpond.com under the name Merle Thompson.
Do not respond to the email. It is spam and has no link to the APS at all.

APS members are reminded to be cautious about unsolicited emails they receive. Official emails from the APS National office will have an address which ends ...@psychology.org.au.

Any emails identified as being from the APS but sent from an email address not ending ...@psychology.org.au should be treated as spam.