Digital Overload and AI Reliance: Implications for Memory, Thinking and Practice
APS Interestnbsp;Group
This webinar examines how the current digital environment, including the rapid rise of artificial intelligence, may be reshaping the ways people attend, remember, and think. Drawing on cognitive psychology research, this presentation explores how information overload places in...
Cognition in older adults
APS Institute
The APS hosts this activity with the Psychology and Ageing Interest Group (PAIG).
Cognitive function declines with age. While some changes in cognition are considered a part of “normal” ageing, there are many conditions that can negatively impact cognition in late life.
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On memory: Strategies in practice
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InPsych
As psychologists we work with people who may have difficulties with memory, ranging from mild inefficiency to significant memory impairment. Sometimes we are not aware of a person’s concern about their memory because they do not raise the issue. By contrast, some clients will ...
Published May 2020
Memory and physical stress
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Occupational stress is associated with poorer memory and smaller hippocampal volume.
Jobs can provide crucial support for cognitive functioning through intellectual and social enrichment. They are also associated with poorer cognitive ability in midlife and retirement throu...
Last reviewed Sep 2020
Managing clients with previously unreported traumatic memories
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InPsych
On behalf of the APS Ethical Guidelines Committee
The phenomenon of the recall of a previously unreported memory of trauma has evoked public controversy, therapeutic uncertainty, scientific debate and litigation. It has been recommended that the terms ‘recovered memories' o...
Published Jun 2017
Concussion in Australian Rules football: The contribution of psychologists
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InPsych
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
Educational Escapes to Margaret River
Non-APS Event
Trauma. Burnout. Two things at the heart of clinical work that most of us were never actually trained in.
Starling Health Collective's Educational Escapes are five-day professional development retreats in the stunning Margaret River Wine Region, WA — one that builds your cl...
Voluntary assisted dying: What Psychologists need to know
APS Institute
In Australia, Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) laws have been passed in all States. The laws came into operation in Victoria in July 2019, in Western Australia in July 2021, and other states will commence in late 2022 and 2023.
VAD presents in various ways in psychological pr...
Integrating IFS Therapy and EMDR: A Practical Hands-on Workshop
APS Interestnbsp;Group
Many clinicians often struggle with how to identify which clients would most benefit from integrating an Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy approach into EMDR therapy for comprehensive trauma treatment. In this training, Dr. Fatter will help clinicians identify clinical sig...
EMDR 2.0 and special techniques
Non-APS Event
Prerequisite training
Completion of EMDR Level 1 training
Day 1
The purpose of this workshop is to gain new inspiration for the treatment of patients suffering from chronic and severe PTSD and/or with severe comorbid psychopathology who display high levels of anxiety ...