InPsych 2011

Cover feature: The psychology of grief and loss

• Beyond Kübler-Ross: Recent developments in our understanding of grief and bereavement
  Christopher Hall   
• The psychology of grief – applying cognitive and behaviour therapy principles
  Sue Morris    
• Behind closed doors: Bereavement and the family
  Dr Lauren Breen
• Perinatal grief: a poignant form of bereavement
  Margaret McSpedden

Columns:

• President's note
  Important links place the APS in the international psychology community
  
• Executive Director's report
  Major psychology workforce reforms are coming

Education and training

• Guiding science on show at the 46th APS Annual Conference
  Professor Don Byrne   
• The future of higher education funding for psychology
  Dr Nicholas Voudouris   
• APS members warmly invited to Cape Town for the 30th International  Congress of Psychology
  Dr Saths Cooper   
  

Professional practice

• Medicare compliance audits: An update
• The Psychology Board of Australia, Regional Boards and AHPRA: Who’s who?
  
• Understanding psychologists’ responsibilities in a Coroner’s investigation

Public interest

• Stress and wellbeing in Australia in 2011: A state-of-the-nation survey
• A sugar high and a fat tax – why we were buzzing at the APS Conference
• Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing website aims to increase culturally appropriate services

Membership news

• Results of the 2011 Board of Directors election
• New Directors appointed to the APS Board
• Report from the APS 2011 AGM
• New APS Honorary Fellows recognised

Cover feature: Psychology in the bush

• Equity in health and wellbeing: Why does regional, rural and remote Australia matter?
  Dr Robyn Vines    
  
• Profile of the regional, rural and remote psychology workforce
• Getting mental health services to the bush: The innovative delivery of best practice psychological services    
  Dr Louise Roufeil
• Reducing the psychosocial impact of cancer for regional Queenslanders    
  Sandy Hutchison
• Helping the helpers in rural Australia: An innovative mentoring and supervision program in NSW    
  Graham Parry, John Hambridge, Chris Willcox and Wayne Clarke
• Enhancing health and wellbeing in regional, rural and remote Australia through professional networking
  Simon Canny, Timothy A. Carey and Professor Don Thomson
  

Columns

• President's note
  Addressing threats to the discipline of psychology
  
  
• Executive Director's report
  Changes to ensure members are front and centre of the Society
  

Education and training

• Psychology Board of Australia to introduce a national psychology examination    
  
• Deadline for meeting continuing professional development requirements fast approaching    
  
• Study tour of Spain enhances cultural awareness
• Diversity of forensic psychology showcased at 2011 conference
• Psychologists update knowledge and skills at 2011 clinical conference
  

Professional practice

• Legal and ethical considerations when working across the public and private sectors    
• Medicare Locals and the changing primary health care landscape
• Attention all fully registered psychologists: Remember to renew your registration by 30 November 2011
• Changes to the Better Access session allowance from 1 November 2011

Public interest

• Two psychologists named among the most influential gay and lesbian Australians
• Adding psychology’s voice to the reconciliation movement in Australia: The APS Reconciliation Action Plan
  

Membership news

• Update on professional indemnity insurance
• Introducing the new APS Fellows

Cover feature: The psychology of eating disturbances

• Psychological prevention and intervention strategies for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating    
  Professor Susan Paxton
     
  
• What kind of illness is anorexia nervosa? A clinical update
  Professor Stephen Touyz
  
  
• Empowering parents to tackle children’s obesity
  Dr Leah Brennan and Associate Professor Jan Matthews
  
  
• Current approaches to weight management: Time for a change
  Louise Adams
  
  
• APS highlights psychological factors in addressing eating disturbances    
  
  

Columns

• President's note
  Growing success
  
  
• Executive Director's report
  The costs of disunity
  
  APS survey of Better Access clients
  

Education and training

• Can online lab classes overcome the tyranny of distance?
  Dr Stephen Provost
  
  
• Scholars and practitioners connect at 9th Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference    
  

Professional practice

• Legal aspects of working with children of separated parents
  
  
• Protecting client privacy through two-part client records
  
  
• New Government-funded services for children with disabilities
  
  
• Earnings of Australian psychologists 1998–2010
  Adjunct Professor James Athanasou

Public interest

• Psychologists' survey demonstrates Australians’ climate change concern. Dr Susie Burke
  
  
• Oxford University educates its first Aboriginal psychology student
  
  
• APS weighs in to school chaplains debate
  
  
• Reaching out to the community in National Psychology Week 2011    
  

Membership news

• Your vote can affect the Society's governance
  
  
• APS psychologists recognised in awards
  
  
• Meeting the diverse needs of APS student members
  

Cover feature: Psychology in cross-cultural contexts

• Psychologists working in immigration detention 
  Amanda Gordon
   
  
• Culturally aware organisational psychology 
  Dr Steven Kiely and Professor Alex Main
  
  
• Facilitating intercultural interactions to enhance international students’ psychosocial adjustment 
  Professor Anita Mak
  
  
• What can culture add to an understanding of criminal violence?
  Dr Katie Seidler
  
  
• Effective interviewing of culturally and linguistically diverse clients 
  Dr Nigar Khawaja
  
  

Columns

• President's note
  The APS gets serious about reconciliation
  
  
• Executive Director's report
  Federal Budget brings costs and opportunities
  
  National registration and continuing professional development update
  

Education and training

• Threats to the future of professional coursework Doctorates in psychology 
  Dr Nicholas Voudouris and Dr Mick Hunter
  
  
• Going bush: The experience of remote postgraduate psychology placements
  Associate Professor Timothy Carey, Areana Eivers, Joe Coyne, Carly Madgen and Associate Professor Reginald Nixon
  
  
• Practical ‘How-to’ sessions to feature at the APS Conference in October  
  
  
• Have you tried accessing the online psychology literature database? 
  

Professional practice

• Tackling mental health in primary schools
  Dr Lyn O’Grady, Amy Quayle, Dr Luke Martin and Sarah Cavanagh
   
• How to respond to a subpoena
  
  
• Investigation of complaints about psychologists under national registration
   
• APS endorses health benefits of work

Public interest

• Indigenous psychologists set the agenda as new leader takes the Chair
  
  
• APS Grant facilitates training for psychologists in Mongolia
  
  
• Psychology in the media
  
  

Membership news

• 20,000 members make APS a force for psychology
  
  
• New Life Members join list of APS notables
   
  
• New regulations regarding the use of testimonials in advertising
   
• Considerations when selecting professional indemnity insurance
  
  
• 2010 APS Interest Group awards recipients
  
  

Cover feature: Positive psychology: A flourishing field

• Positive psychology: Reflecting on the past and projecting into the future 
  Dr Dianne Vella-Brodrick 
  
  
• Positive psychology: Making Australia happy? 
  Dr Anthony Grant 
  
  
• Positive education: Creating flourishing students, staff and schools 
  Dr Suzy Green, Dr Lindsay Oades and Paula Robinson
  
  
• Positive psychology in the workplace 
  Peter Cotton and Dr Peter Hart 

Columns

• President's note
  Australian research: How does psychology rank?
   
• Executive Director's report 
  Better Access – yes it is! | Clarifying CPD confusion

Education and training

• What can you do with a three-year degree in psychological science? Curriculum renewal at UniSA 
  Dr Janet Bryan, Dr Rob Ranzijn, Cathy Balfour, Dr Michelle Tuckey and Associate Professor Kurt Lushington
  
  
• Should psychology academics and researchers be registered? 
  
  
• APS members gain online access to psychology and behavioural sciences database
  
  
• Join us in Canberra in the spring for the APS Annual Conference
   
• Invitation to APS members to attend and present
  at the 30th International Congress of Psychology
  in Cape Town, South Africa, 22–27 July 2012
  

Professional practice 

• Dealing with difficult requests from lawyers
  
  
• Update on Medicare provider matters  
  
  
• Mental health and intensive meditation retreats 
  Geoff Dawson

Public interest

• Genocide: Is it that the more who die the less we care? 
  Dr Susie Burke
  
  
• APS responds to natural disasters
  
  
• Providing trauma therapy in the world's longest war

Membership news 

• Transition arrangements for Psychology Board endorsement in health psychology and community psychology
  
  
• 2010 APS College awards recipients

Cover feature: Couple and family relationships under pressure

• Relationship pressures on Australian families: Some implications for psychologists
  Professor Alan Hayes, Ruth Weston and Dr Lixia Qu
  
  
• The Olson Circumplex Model: A systemic approach to couple and family relationships
  Catherine Sanders and Dr Jordan Bell
  
  
• Understanding and working with family violence: A role for all psychologists
  Dr Karen Weiss
  
  
• Ethics and the practice of couple and family therapy
  Elisabeth Shaw
  
  
• The challenges of relationship diversity: Perspectives from the APS Psychology of Relationships Interest Group
  Dr Gery Karantzas and Dr Ross Wilkinson

Special report: Response and recovery after the floods  

• Interview with Professor Richard Bryant 
  
  
• Psychological support and treatment for victims of the floods
  Professor David Forbes and Professor Mark Creamer
  
  
• Interview with Professor Kevin Ronan
  
  
• Interview with Kerrie Kelly
  
  
• APS contribution to the flood disaster recovery

Columns

• President's note
  Publishing without perishing: A new look for the APS journals
   
• Executive Director's report 
  Advocacy for psychology

Education and training

• When the rubber hits the road: How do we know our graduates are competent?
  Dr Kathryn von Treuer, Vanessa Sturre, Dr Sophie Keele and Frances Feenstra  

Professional practice 

• Ethical issues in rural practice
  Professor Don Thomson
  
  
• Gender Identity Disorder (transsexualism): Considerations for psychologists
  Ashley Van Houten

Public interest   

• Psychologists unite to educate for National Psychology Week 2010

Membership news 

• Improvements to member assistance and support
  
  
• 2010 APS Awards recipients