APS honours Swinburne psychology experts

Two senior Swinburne University of Technology psychology academics have been honoured at the Australian Psychological Society (APS) annual conference in Cairns.

Professor Michael Kyrios, Director of the Brain and Psychological Sciences Research Centre at Swinburne, received the Ian M Campbell Memorial Prize, the highest honour bestowed on a clinical psychologist by the APS and its College of Clinical Psychologists. He was also voted president elect of the APS.

Associate Professor Roger Cook, Director of Swinburne's Psychology Clinic, received the Award of Distinction from the APS College of Counselling Psychologists.

Professor Kyrios leads the National e-Therapy Centre. His areas of expertise include anxiety, depression, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, chronic health, cognitive-behavioural and self-based therapies.

At last week's conference he presented a paper on hoarding as part of a symposium on the new and controversial ‘bible' of psychological disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association (the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders).

Professor Kyrios has been a member of the APS since 1984 and has contributed to the APS in a broad range of leadership roles. He will take over the presidency next year.

Professor Kyrios said it was a great honour and a privilege to be named president elect.

"The challenges and opportunities ahead will have significant implications for the discipline and profession of psychology and I look forward to working with the new board in serving the APS, psychologists across the country and the community," Professor Kyrios said.  

The Award of Distinction from the APS College of Counselling Psychologists, presented to Associate Professor Cook, recognises the importance of significant contributions by a senior member or academic member of the College, in the specialist field of that College.

Associate Professor Cook is a registered psychologist, family therapist and infertility counsellor for the Melbourne Assisted Conception Centre at the Mercy Hospital for Women.

He is a past President of the Fertility Society of Australia and of the Australian and New Zealand Infertility Counsellors' Association and has had a long association with the administration of the APS College of Counselling Psychologists.

The Australian Psychological Society represents more than 21,000 psychologists in Australia.

Swinburne was ranked in the top 200 in the world for Psychology and Sociology in this year's QS World University rankings and its research output was rated as Above World Standard in the 2012 national research excellence assessment.

 

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