InPsych 2014

COVER FEATURE:

• Psychological health and wellbeing in the workplace
  • Workplace psychological health and wellbeing: An overview of key trends
    Dr Peter Cotton
  • Principals’ psychological health: It’s not just lonely at the top, it’s dangerous
    Associate Professor Philip Riley
  • Facilitating psychological health in the policing context
    Trisha Cabrero, Joy Jackson, Rebecca Elliott and Leo Konstantinou
  • Building individual resilience to improve workplace wellbeing and work outcomes
    Susan McDonald
  • A ripple effect for employee wellbeing:  Pro bono coaching in the not-for-profit sector
    Michelle de Vries Robbé and Aaron McEwan
  • APS Psychologically Healthy Workplace Program: Helping organisations work better

Columns

• President's note
  Strength in unity and purpose
• Executive Director's report
  APS provides input to major review of National Registration and Accreditation Scheme  

Special report

• 2014 National Psychology Week research survey

Education and science

• Opening online university courses to camp-based refugees
  Associate Professor Marie Joyce OAM
• Practice implications of changes to learning disorders in DSM-5
  John Blythe
• Psychology addresses the big challenges at APS Annual Conference
• Employment, training and professional development of provisional psychologists in the corporate sector
  Ann Thornton
• Members give $25,000 for 2015 Indigenous bursaries 

Professional practice

• Q & A: Considerations for psychologists following a client death by suicide
• How to: Accurately present professional credentials
• Comfortably compliant: Beware ‘trailing fees’ in contracts!
• Practising psychologist alerts

Public interest 

• The APS Reconciliation Action Plan and beyond
• Psychologists address the challenge of climate change at APS Conference

Membership news

• Additional Directors appointed to the APS Board
• Proper use of APS postnominals 
• New APS Honorary Fellow recognised
• Did you know?
• Introducing the 2014 APS Fellows

COVER FEATURE
Common, serious...and treatable: Psychological intervention in high prevalence mental health disorders

• Treatment guidance for common mental health disorders
  • Depressive disorders – Associate Professor Vijaya Manicavasagar
  • Anxiety disorders – Associate Professor Maria Kangas
  • Posttraumatic stress disorder – Dr Andrea Phelps
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorder – Associate Professor Rocco Crino
  • Adjustment disorder – Professor Justin Kenardy
  • Substance use disorders – Professor David Kavanagh, Associate Professor Jason Connor and Dr Matthew Gullo
  • Childhood behavioural disorders – Professor Matthew Sanders and Dr James Kirby
  • Childhood anxiety disorders – Professor Paula Barrett
• Counting the costs and reaping the benefits: Evidence for the cost-effectiveness of psychological interventions
  Dr Rebecca Mathews
• Getting it out there: Facilitating access to treatment for hard-to-reach groups
  Dr Louise Roufeil

Columns

• President's note:
  Challenges and opportunities from the vantage point of a new President
• Executive Director's report:
  Psychology in Australia's mental health systems

Special article

• Reflections on a presidency
  Associate Professor Tim Hannan

Education and science

• Changes to DSM-5 obsessive-compulsive and related disorders
  Dr Maja Nedeljkovic and Imogen Rehm
• Australian psychology on a global scale: 50 years of APS involvement in the International Association of Applied Psychology
  Dr Mike Knowles
• APS Study Group Networks: Cost-effective CPD in your local area

Professional practice

• Q & A: Managing clients at risk of suicide
• How to: Manage outstanding client debts
• Major review of national registration scheme under way
• Guidance on destruction of files in the digital age
• Comfortably compliant: Record keeping and professional supervision

Public interest

• Powerful new KidsMatter Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social and emotional wellbeing resources
  Dr Lisa Watts, Dr Lyn O’Grady and Dr Sarah Cavanagh
• Celebrate National Psychology Week 2014

Membership news

• Results of 2014 Board of Directors election
• Did you know?

Cover feature: Child adoption

• Past adoption practices: Implications for current interventions
  Dr Daryl Higgins
• Dark chapters in Australian history: Adopted children from the Stolen Generations
  Professor Pat Dudgeon and Tanja Hirvonen
• Working with adopted people
  Dr Susan Green
• Birth mothers’ experience of open adoption
  Dr Phillipa Castle
• Psychological assessment of parents’ suitability for overseas adoption
  Dr Lisa Chantler

Columns

• President's note
  The APS and the international psychology community
• Executive Director's report
  International perspectives on Australian psychology

Education and science

• Bereavement and depression in the DSM-5
  Christopher Hall
• Challenges for non-university higher education providers in a competitive and highly regulated environment
  Professor Michael Innes, Professor Lynne Harris and Andrew Little
• Anthrozoology: Can animals benefit our health?
  Associate Professor Pauleen Bennett and Kaye Meynell
• Preview of the 2014 APS Annual Conference
• Leading experts upskill delegates at Clinical Conference

Professional practice

• The care of very young children after parental separation
  Dr Jennifer McIntosh
• The opportunities and challenges of the National Disability Insurance Scheme
• Q & A: Managing informed consent
• How to: Navigate the world of online practice management systems and cloud computing
• Comfortably compliant: Contractual compliance – it’s not that simple!

Public interest

• APS Grant provides insights and resources for managing traumatic brain injury in Botswana
• National Psychology Week 2014: Helping Australians manage stress and achieve a healthier lifestyle

Membership news

• Enhanced member benefit: Expanded access to online literature databases
• Remember to vote in this year’s Board of Directors election
• Did you know?
• APS psychologist recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Cover feature: Psychology and the Internet

• Psychology and the Internet: Where are we and where to from here?
  Professor Michael Kyrios and Dr Neil Thomas
• Social media: The new e-mental health tool
  Professor Helen Christensen
• Six reasons to integrate e-health into psychology practice
  Professor David Kavanagh
• Are SMARTapps the future of youth mental health?
  Associate Professor Leanne Hides
• Ethical and competent practice in the online age
  Nicholas Gamble and Zoe Morris
• Online mental health resources: What’s available and do they work?
  Julia Reynolds MAPS

Columns

• President's note
  The impact of inequality on health and wellbeing
• Executive Director's report
  Federal Budget brings major changes and implications

Education and science

• Personality disorders and the DSM-5
  Associate Professor Ross King
• International experts to address 2014 APS Annual Conference in Hobart 
• Conference showcases educational psychology enhancing student outcomes
• Indigenous postgraduate psychology student awarded APS bursary

Professional practice   

• Q & A: The benefits and pitfalls of social media for psychologists
• Are you using testimonials to promote your practice?
• How to: Choose a practice management system
• Comfortably compliant: Medicare provider liabilities

Public interest   

• APS highlights mental health impact of proposed amendments to Racial Discrimination Act
• APS Grant enables development of brief intervention for humanitarian crises
• APS Grant for Intercultural and/or International Projects 2014: Call for applications

Membership news   

• Aon reappointed as APS insurance provider
• Did you know
• It’s APS membership renewal time
• APS Find a Psychologist – now with major enhancements
• New Life Members join list of eminent APS psychologists
• 2013 APS Interest Group awards recipients
• Nominations open for APS Interest Group awards 2014

Cover feature: Disordered sleep

• Managing insomnia: What we’ve learnt in the last 10 years
  Associate Professor Delwyn Bartlett
• Shining a light on delayed sleep phase disorder during adolescence
  Associate Professor Michael Gradisar
• To cry or not to cry: The need for increased choice in behavioural sleep interventions for parents of infants
  Associate Professor Sarah Blunden
• Disordered sleep of elite athletes – possible solutions
  Lana McCloughan and Ruth Anderson
• Sleep disturbance in autism spectrum disorders: Recent advances in research and practice
  Professor Nicole Rinehart, Dr Tamara May, Associate Professor Jane McGillivray, Dr Nicole Papadopoulos, Dr Emma Sciberras, Professor Katrina Williams and Associate Professor Harriet Hiscock

Columns

• President's note
  Putting science into practice
• Executive Director's report
  Ensuring access to psychological services through a sustainable psychology workforce
• Budget cuts must ensure mental health consumers are not left behind

Education and science

• A curriculum for a continent: Psychology studies in secondary school
  Professor Simon Crowe
• A new diagnosis in DSM-5: Hoarding disorder
  Professor Michael Kyrios

Professional practice

• Changes to the Commonwealth Privacy Act: Implications for psychologists’ collection, storage and disclosure of personal information
• Q & A: When clients pose a risk of harm to others
• Telling tales: Mandatory reporting of impaired colleagues brings
  ethical concerns
• How to: Make self-care strategies a central part of your practice
• Compliance with third party provider requirements: Minimising your risk!

Public interest

• Recovery, resilience and rice: Assisting devastated communities after the Philippines typhoon
• Supporting workers in an Indigenous boarding school program: An APS Interest Group volunteer partnership

Membership news

• Did you know?
• 2013 APS College awards recipients
• Nominations for APS College awards 2014

Cover feature: Psychology in non-government organisations

• Psychologists in non-government organisations: Opportunities and challenges
  Lisa McLean
• APS psychologists at work in NGOs
  
  Nearly 800 APS psychologists provide psychological expertise as employees of not-for-profit organisations in a wide variety of settings in the Australian community. The work of six of these psychologists is presented on the following pages, showcasing their contributions across a range of non-government community organisations.
  • Services for children with developmental disabilities: Kids are Kids! Therapy and Education Centre, WA
    Tiffany Rochester
  • Services for the unemployed: Mission Australia, QLD
    Debbie Kimber
  • Alcohol and other drug treatment: Odyssey House, VIC
    Dr Stefan Gruenert
  • Services for people with Parkinson’s disease: Parkinson’s NSW
    Sallyanne Aarons
  • Allied health services for rural children: BUSHkids, QLD
    Eleanor Glover
  • Suicide prevention services: Lifeline Northern Beaches, NSW
    Kathi Pauncz

  Members were invited to provide an expression of interest to contribute to this InPsych cover feature and over 40 submissions were received. Although the NGO work of only six APS psychologists can be presented here, brief profiles of the work of other APS psychologists providing services in NGOs within the community in child, youth, family, aged care, alcohol and drug, and men’s health settings can be read online (www.psychology.org.au/inpsych/2014/february/NGO).

• APS support for psychologists working in NGOs

Columns

• President's note
  Members make the APS with their valued contributions
• Executive Director's report
  ATAPS effectively targets mental health needs

Education and science

• Psychology Board brings in national psychology examination for registration
• Substance-related and addictive disorders: Changes in DSM-5
  Professor David Kavanagh

Professional practice

• Q & A: Professional indemnity insurance explained
• What’s in a name? Psychologists’ approved titles under national registration
• How to: Prepare for a PsyBA audit

Public interest

• Volunteering as an opportunity to flourish
• Doing reconciliation locally
• Psychologists get on their bikes for a good cause
• National Psychology Week 2013: Stressing the many benefits of psychology

Membership news

• Did you know?
• New Director appointed to the APS Board
• APS member recognised in Australia Day 2014 Honours List
• 2013 APS awards recipients