InPsych 2010

Cover feature: Special report - The psychology of gambling

Prepared by members of the APS Gambling Working Group* in collaboration with Jill Giese MAPS, APS Executive Officer

• Special report - The psychology of gambling
  Includes:
  • Gambling in Australia
  • Understanding problem gambling
  • Community and public health approaches to reducing gambling harm
  • Treatment of problem gambling
  • Enhancing psychology’s contribution to addressing problem gambling

Columns

• President's note  
• Executive Director's report 

Education and training

• Towards assessment of professional competence in Australian psychology
  Dr Nicholas Voudouris
• New continuing professional development requirements for Medicare providers

Professional practice

• Not just a job, an adventure: Experiences of school psychologists in rural and remote Australia
  Sue Edwards, Gregg Chapman, Alan Plumb and Chris Gostelow
• Psychologists’ use of titles, qualifications and postnominals in professional communications

Public interest

• 'The psychological cost of disasters' – 2010 APS Annual Oration 34 presented by Professor Richard Bryant
• 2010 National Psychology Week research project: The social and psychological impact of online social networking
• Understanding the psychological barriers to climate change action
  Dr Susie Burke

Membership news 

• Results of the 2010 Board of Directors election
• Report from the APS 2010 AGM
• Obituary: Nancy Pearl Stewart FAPS
• Keeping track of APS Life Members
• Did you know?
• Introducing the new APS Fellows
• APS Fellows 2011: Call for nominations

Cover feature: Assessing and managing dementia

• Roles of psychologists in assessing and treating dementia 
  Associate Professor Nancy Pachana and Professor Edward Helme
  
• Non-pharmacological approaches to managing challenging behaviours associated with dementia in aged care
  Dr Tanya Davison, Dr Michael Bird, Professor Marita McCabe and Associate Professor David Mellor
  
• Cognitive interventions in early Alzheimer's disease and mild cognitive impairment
  Professor Glynda Kinsella, Elizabeth Mullaly and Dr Kerryn Pike
  
• How neuropsychologists can assist carers of people with dementia
  Dr Nadja Berberovic and Sue Packer

Columns

• President's note
   
• Executive Director's report 

Education and training

• An eclectic approach to psychology: Realising the promise of the scientist-practitioner model
  Professor Bob Montgomery
  
• Promoting access to psychologists in alcohol and other drugs services
  Athena Politis, Vicky Mrowinski and Dr Nicholas Voudouris
  
• Training and recruiting psychologists for regional, rural and remote Australia
  Associate Professor Darryl Maybery, Keith Sutton and Dr Terry Moore
  
• Insights from a PD consumer
  Judith Locke
  
• Student psychologists inspired by ICAP 2010
  Charleen Maretti and Kirin Hilliar  

Professional practice 

• A snapshot of the Australian psychology workforce
  Dr Rebecca Mathews, David Stokes and Professor Brin Grenyer

Public interest

• International environmental psychologists share their insights 
  
• Working as a psychologist in Afghanistan and Bangladesh

Membership news 

• Obituary – Emeritus Professor Samuel Hammond FAPS

Special report: Psychology in the courts

• Psychologists as expert witnesses in courts and tribunals
  Professor Alfred Allan and Dr Michael Davis
  
• Run for the hills: Why would you specialise in family law assessment?
  Dr Jennifer Neoh, Vincent Papaleo and Dr Simon Kennedy
  
• Adolescent sex offenders: A life sentence?
  Dr Ian Nisbet
  
• Reality, fantasy and the truth about CSI effects
  Professor Jane Goodman-Delahunty and Hielkje Verbrugge

Columns

• President's note
   
• Executive Director's report 

ICAP 2010

•   ICAP 2010 showcases psychology’s relevance on a global scale

Professional practice 

• Ethical matters: The internet’s ethical challenges for psychologists
  
• Mandatory reporting of suspected child abuse: Implications under the national registration scheme
  
• Focus on regional, rural and remote Australia

Public interest

• Psychological care in drought-affected communities
  
• Peacemakers and environmentalists at ICAP 2010
  
• National Psychology Week 2010: 14–20 November

Membership news 

• Australian health reforms and the APS Strategic Leadership Program

Special report: Health psychology and community psychology under threat

• Introduction: Health psychology and community psychology under threat
  
• The end of community psychology, health psychology and the contribution of psychology to health promotion in Australia? 
  Professor Debra Rickwood
  
• Health psychology: Critical to understanding health and illness 
  Dr Helen Lindner and Caroline Giles
  
• Community psychology: An essential part of the health reform agenda
  Heather Gridley and Emma Sampson

Columns

• President's note
   
• Executive Director's report 

ICAP 2010

• Meeting your professional development needs at ICAP 2010
  • ICAP 2010 highlights day by day
  • ICAP 2010 social program  

Education and training

• Advancing teaching and learning in psychology
  Associate Professor Jacquelyn Cranney, Shirley Zhang, Dr Frances Martin and Dr Lucy Zinkiewicz

Professional practice 

• Evidence-based psychological interventions: What measures up?
  Kylie Murphy and Dr Rebecca Mathews
  
• Managing clients with previously unreported traumatic memories
  
• Managing the privacy of psychologists’ files in schools

Public interest

• APS Grant project targets mental health literacy in Palau
  
• New APS resources on psychological preparedness for natural disasters

Membership news 

• New APS Life Members
  
• 2009 APS Interest Group awards recipients

Cover feature: Psychology and the armed forces

• Defence psychology: A diverse and pragmatic role in support of the nation 
  Colonel Dr Peter Murphy, Colonel Dr Stephanie Hodson and Geoff Gallas
  
• Maximising performance: Measuring unit climate in the Australian Defence Force 
  Anne Goyne
  
• Supporting mental health on military operations 
  Major Dr Carolyn Deans and Major Kristi Heffernan
  
• Resilience training in the Australian Defence Force
  Lieutenant Colonel Dr Andrew Cohn, Colonel Dr Stephanie Hodson and Monique Crane

Columns

• President's note
   
• Executive Director's report 

Education and training

• Alarming drop in availability of postgraduate psychology training
  Dr Nicholas Voudouris and Vicky Mrowinski
  
• Renowned international psychologists heading for ICAP 2010 in Melbourne

Professional practice 

• Psychodynamic psychotherapy: The evidence is in
  Associate Professor Robert King, Associate Professor Robert Schweitzer, Giac Giacomantonio and Dr Timothy Keogh
  
• Electronic health records are coming!
  
• Reporting abuse, neglect and criminal activity 
  
• Professional indemnity insurance: Mandatory for all registered psychologists from 1 July 2010

Public interest

• Major achievements for the Australian Indigenous Psychologists Association
  Adjunct Associate Professor Pat Dudgeon, Kerrie Kelly and Heather Gridley
  
• Mental health and psychosocial support in international aid programs

Membership news 

• Aligning College membership standards with PBA requirements
  
• 2009 APS College awards recipients

Cover feature: Psychology in a reformed Australian health system

Prepared by Professor Lyn Littlefield and Jill Giese

• Psychology in a reformed Australian health system
  
• The Australian Government health reform agenda
  
• APS recommendations for health reforms 
  
• Psychological interventions for the prevention and management of lifestyle-related chronic disease
  Professor John Toumbourou
  
• e-Interventions and psychology: Time to log on
  Associate Professor Britt Klein 

Columns

• President's note  
• Executive Director's report 

Professional practice 

• Legal and ethical matters: Writing psychological reports for third parties
  
• Medicare audits result in concerning outcomes
  
• Health, wellbeing and performance: The multiple agendas of professional psychology
  Professor John O'Gorman

Public interest   

• Psychologists and Red Cross join forces to improve disaster services for Australians
  
• The mental health of Khmer Rouge survivors and their descendants
  Angela Simcox
  
• Beyond the Apology: The work of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Healing Foundation
  Graham Gee
  
• National Psychology Week 2009: Psychologists unite to promote psychology

Membership news 

• APS psychologists recognised in Australia Day 2010 Honours List 
  
• 2009 APS Awards recipients