InPsych 2015

COVER FEATURE:

The next generation of psychologists…   

• Pathways in psychology…
  • My journey from nurse to psychologist - Associate Professor Shirley Morrissey
  • The Boulder model alive and well! - Dr Simon Rice
  • An unconventional pathway from practice to academia - Dr John Roodenburg
  • Psychological value in a grassroots community - Jade Gooding
  • The self-care imperative in the bush - Dr Nicole Jeffery-Dawes
  • Making a difference as Indigenous psychologists: Reflections from the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association (AIPA) - Tania Dalton, Peter Smith, Tanja Hirvonen
  • Pathway to community psychology - Rebecca Hogea
• Transitioning into academia: The challenges and opportunities for early career psychologists and psychological scientists - Dr Jason M. Lodge
• Transitioning from trainee to practitioner psychologist: Considerations and reflections - Kaye Frankcom
• Integrating ePsychology into practice and research: A guide for early career psychologists - APS ePsychology Interest Group
• Unscrambling supervision - Erika Leonard

Columns

• President's note    
  2015: A reflection
• Executive Director's report    
  Reform of the Mental Health System

Special report

• 2015 Psychology Week survey report

Celebrating 50 years

• The 1960s and 1970s: Psychology and social change
• Reflections on the past and present: Christabel Chamarette FAPS

Science and education

• Reflections on the APS Golden Jubilee Conference
• Indigenous highlights at the Golden Jubilee Conference
• APS members donate $25,000 for 2016 Indigenous student bursaries

Professional practice

• Q & A: Working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
• How to: Use social media as a professional tool
• Comfortably compliant: Secure Message Delivery: Are you eHealth compliant?
• Practising psychologist alerts

Psychology in current issues

• Psychologists raising their concerns about climate change at the 50th APS Conference

Membership news

• Introducing the 2015 APS Fellows
• Did you know?
• New APS Honorary Fellow recognised

COVER FEATURE:

• When high-quality therapy isn’t enough: What psychologists can do to prevent domestic violence
  Peter Streker
• Working with domestic violence: A clinician’s guide to ethical and competent practice
  Carmel O’Brien
• The role of relationship therapy in working with family violence
  Karen Weiss
• Psychological intervention for children and young people who have experienced family violence
  Olivia Powell & Kathy Morrison
• Improving outcomes through a shared understanding of family violence in Aboriginal communities: Towards an Aboriginal theory of family violence
  Victoria Hovane
• Working with perpetrators of domestic violence to change their behaviour
  Andrew Day

Columns

• President's note    
  Unity during times of change and opportunity
• Executive Director's report
  Effective chronic disease prevention and management

Celebrating our history

• OCTOBER 2015: Birth of the APS
• Reflections on the past and present: Clive Williams

Spotlight on early career

• The rise of internet gambling and its impact on addictive disorders
  Dr Sally Gainsbury
• Internet Gaming Disorder: A new clinical phenomenon
  Dr Daniel King
• Understanding and treating comorbid anxiety and depression in older adults
  Dr Viviana Wuthrich
• The placebo effect: All this hype about nothing?
  Dr Ben Colagiuri

Science and education

• Framework for an Australian Curriculum for Psychological Science in Secondary Schools

Professional practice

• Q & A: Responding to reports of domestic violence
• Comfortably compliant: A whole-of-practice approach to Medicare compliance
• Practising psychologist alerts
• How to: Prepare a psychological report as a treating practitioner that may be used in court

Psychology in current issues

• New user guides bolster Indigenous animations
• APS at the forefront of ensuring evidence-based practice
  Damien W. Riggs
• Get involved – Psychology Week 2015

Membership news

• Results of 2015 Board of Directors election
• Retiring Board members
• Member partitipation in election
• Did you know?

COVER FEATURE:

Assessment of capacity

• People with intellectual disability -  Dr Nick Hagiliassis
• The elderly - Dr Jane Lonie
• Severe and persisting mental illness - Dr Ilana Hepner
• Acute medical ward patients - Dr James Campbell
• Compensable clients and their ability to work - Dr Peter Cotton
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander parents - Stephen Ralph
• Young offenders - Carmela Pestell and Annette Paul

• Best practice in psychological assessment of capacity in legal settings
  Dr Greg Dear
• Using capacity assessments to maximise individuals’ autonomy: What information might assist a tribunal? Katherine Martin

President's note

• Ensuring good governance          

Executive Director's report                                                       

• Leading the way in advocating for children’s mental health and wellbeing
• International Project on Competence in Psychology (IPCP)  

APS Bendi Lango bursary                                                         

Celebrating our history                                                          

• The Annual Congress: Fostering a professional community 
• Reflections on the past and present: Mrs Edith Plant MAPS

Science and education                                                           

• Preview of the 50th APS Annual Conference
• Practice-oriented expertise on display at educational psychology conference  
• World class experts featured at the Clinical conference on Adelaide’s shores
• Conference showcases psychology preparing workplaces for the future

Professional practice

• If you don’t know, you can’t help: A practical guide for alcohol and other drug screening in psychological services
  Caroline Long, Dr Hollie Wilson, Lee Brient and Lynne Magor-Blatch
• Q & A: Ethical considerations when providing pro bono psychology services
• How to: Work with the media
• Comfortably compliant: Relationship counselling: Can it be provided under Medicare?
• Practising psychologist alerts

Psychology in current issues

• Organisational psychology celebrated at the inaugural Workplace Excellence Awards
• Psychology Week 2015
• Great things can happen when psychologists and the public work together

Membership news:

• A dedicated online resource hub for early career members
• Spotlight on early career members
• Board election reminder 
• Did you know?

COVER FEATURE:

Psychology and creativity

• Psychology’s creative links and applications to therapeutic practice
  Dr Andrea Quinn
• Creative cognition offers fresh insights for early psychosis
  Julie Crabtree and Associate Professor Melissa Green
• Story-making and storytelling: An exploration of the psychotherapeutic benefits
  Jane Turner Goldsmith
• The art of healing and healing in art therapy
  Rob Gray
• Play therapy: Working creatively with children
  Jacki Short

Columns:

• President's note: New Strategic Plan to guide response to challenges and opportunities
• Executive Director's report:Protecting Australians' access to effective mental health treatment under Medicare

Celebrating our history

• A new dawn: The extraordinary growth in post war psychology
• Reflections on the past and present: Mrs Jean Rushton MAPS

Science and education

• Assisting organisations to deal effectively with toxic leadership in the workplace
  Vicki Webster and Professor Paula Brough
• Eminent speakers to feature at Jubilee Conference
• Relevance and value of forensic psychology to wider society highlighted at conference
• Chronic disease management the focus of second Health Psychology Conference

Professional practice

• Q & A: Psychologists’ clients’ rights
• How to: Respond to client requests for references and other documentation
• Comfortably compliant: Medicare-funded Better Access services and psychological assessments
• Practising psychologist alerts

Psychology in current issues

• Strong recommendations address dire status of Indigenous Australians' mental health
• APS Grant enhances psychology training connections with Vietnam

Membership news

• New member benefit to build your media skills
• Did you know?
• It's APS membership renewal time
• New Life Members join list of eminent APS psychologists
• 2014 APS Interest Group awards recipients
• Nominations open for APS Interest Group awards 2015

COVER FEATURE:

Psychological perspectives on pornography

• Pornography: Pleasure or pain?
  Associate Professor David Smith
• The ‘porn genie’ is out of the bottle: Understanding and responding to the impact of pornography on young people
  Dr Russ Pratt
• Paedophilia and online child exploitation materials: Ethical and practice issues in psychological treatment
  Dr Georgina O’Donnell, Damien Minehan and Grant Blake
• 'Just pictures'. A practical guide to the forensic psychological assessment of child abuse material offenders
  Kate Crawley and Felicity Gerry
• APS highlights concerns about the harmful impacts of pornography

Column

• President's note
  Considering e-therapy in a more efficient mental health system
• Executive Director's report
  Inspiration for greater member engagement

Celebrating our history

• World War Two and the formation of an Australian psychology society
• Reflections on the past and present: Colonel George Owens FAPS

Education and science

• Psychology contributes to closing the Indigenous mental health gap
• Professional knowledge and outcomes highlighted at neuropsychology annual conference
• Psychologists showcase their counselling and mental health expertise in Melbourne

Professional practice

• Agile psychologists designing and delivering change in adult public mental health
  Dr Melissa Casey
• Q & A: Providing psychological services in response to disasters
• How to: Ensure your professional indemnity insurance cover is adequate
• Comfortably compliant: Delivering Medicare-funded services at a place other than consulting rooms
• Practising psychologist alerts

Psychology in current issues

• When disaster is in your neighbourhood, and then on your doorstep
• Applying a social determinants of health approach within psychology

Membership news

• Entries now open for the inaugural APS Workplace Excellence Awards
• Did you know?
• 2014 APS College Awards recipients
• Nominations for APS College awards 2015

COVER FEATURE:

Psychologist self-care

• Working with suicidal clients: Impacts on psychologists and the need for self-care
  Jacinta Hawgood and Professor Diego De Leo
• The impact of secondary exposure to trauma on mental health professionals
  Dr Rebecca Diehm and Dr David Roland
• Self-care for psychologists: Lifeline's learnings
  Ann Evans
• Integrating self-care instruction into psychology training
  Professor Kenneth Pakenham
• The importance of self-care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychologists
  Tanja Hirvonen
• Psychologist self-care: A student perspective
  Angela Gale and Selma Musić

Columns

• President's note
  Using our skills to deal with challenges
• Executive Director's report
  Planning for the future while we celebrate our past

Celebrating our history

• The early years of psychology education in Australia
• Reflections on the past and present: Emeritus Professor Ron Taft Hon FAPS

Education and science

• How to: Use ProQuest databases to enhance your psychological practice

Professional practice

• Psychologists under scrutiny: Notifications and offences of psychologists under national registration during 2013-14
• Q & A: Considerations when working with multiple clients
• Comfortably compliant: Understanding the Medicare audit process
• Practising psychologist alerts

Psychology in current issues

• Counter-terrorism responses: Can psychology contribute?
• Taking psychology to the community: National Psychology Week 2014

Membership news

• Results of the 2014 member satisfaction survey
• Engaging international psychologists in Australia
• Did you know?
• APS members recognised in 2015 Australia Day Honours List
• 2014 APS Awards recipients