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14/12/2025
✨ Call for Submissions: Belonging Blindspots ✨Organic Intellectuals Series | Educational and Developmental PsychologistB...
13/12/2025

✨ Call for Submissions: Belonging Blindspots ✨
Organic Intellectuals Series | Educational and Developmental Psychologist

Belonging shapes how people learn, connect, and participate in schools and society. Yet many lived experiences of inclusion and exclusion never make it into formal research.

Our upcoming issue, Belonging Blindspots, invites organic intellectuals (aka people whose knowledge comes from lived, community, and practice-based experience) to share their perspectives in their own voice.

This is not traditional research. There’s no academic referencing and only light-touch editing, so contributors can write authentically and centre what they know from lived experience.

📌 Expressions of Interest close Saturday 31 January 2026

🔗 Find out more about how to submit via the link in bio

Because belonging is built where research can’t always reach.

12/12/2025

📢 Call for Submissions – Belonging Blindspots

We’re inviting lived-experience voices to shape a special issue of our Educational and Developmental Psychologist Journal.

If you’re a young person, educator, community leader, First Nations contributor, migrant, or anyone who has lived the realities of belonging or belonging disruption…we want to hear from you!

Write in your voice, your story, your way.

EOIs due 31 Jan 2026 to kelly-ann.allen@monash.edu

09/12/2025

While regulations can set boundaries, they cannot replace the resilience young people need to manage the pressures and risks of social media. As Australia moves toward new social media restrictions, Wayne Holdsworth reminds us that real safety comes from helping young people build the skills, insight and confidence to navigate the online world.

In our next clip, Wayne shares how his lived experience shapes the practical strategies he uses with students, families and schools to strengthen digital resilience in meaningful and realistic ways.

Listen to Subject for Change wherever you get your podcasts.

09/12/2025

As the eve of Australia’s new social media restrictions arrives, what does it really take to keep young people safe online?

In our 20th episode, Camelia Wilkinson and Maximilian White speak with Wayne Holdsworth.

Wayne is an educator who approaches online safety through both professional insight and deeply personal experience. He shares the heartbreaking impact that social media had on his son, and how this loss guides his work with students, families and schools.

With significant changes ahead for how young people use and access social platforms, this conversation highlights why education, support and honest dialogue remain essential alongside policy.

14/11/2025

Sharing another look at our newest Subject for Change episode with Camelia, Elise and Andrea.

A great conversation about what makes the CEDP such a supportive professional home.

🧠✨ World Mental Health Day 2025 ✨🧠Today, we’re celebrating the importance of caring for our own mental health, because p...
10/10/2025

🧠✨ World Mental Health Day 2025 ✨🧠

Today, we’re celebrating the importance of caring for our own mental health, because psychologists need self-care too. 💛

We asked members of the CEDP National Committee to share their best (and sometimes most chaotic!) self-care tips. From mindfulness moments to spontaneous beach walks, it’s a reminder that wellbeing doesn’t have to look perfect, it just has to be yours.

Take a moment today to pause, reflect, and recharge in whatever way feels right for you.

📣 Educational & Developmental Psychologists are essential to the NDIS.The APS College of Educational and Developmental P...
08/10/2025

📣 Educational & Developmental Psychologists are essential to the NDIS.

The APS College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists (CEDP) continues to advocate for fair recognition of all psychologists within the NDIS.
We’re actively collaborating across APS Colleges and advocacy bodies to highlight our unique expertise in assessment, intervention, and capacity building, and to ensure Ed & Dev Psychologists are not overlooked in policy and pricing reforms.

From clarifying our diagnostic scope to contributing to national consultation processes, the College is committed to protecting your scope, promoting your contribution, and amplifying your voice.

Our work matters and your impact deserves to be recognised.

📣 CEDP Town Hall with APS Acting President Andrew Chua You’re invited to join an open discussion with APS Acting Preside...
08/10/2025

📣 CEDP Town Hall with APS Acting President Andrew Chua

You’re invited to join an open discussion with APS Acting President Andrew Chua on Wednesday, 8 October at 5:30 pm (AEDT).

This Town Hall is a valuable opportunity to:
💬 Ask questions directly
🤝 Engage in dialogue about the current Board transition
🌱 Share your thoughts on the future direction of the APS

🗓 Date: Wednesday, 8 October
🕠 Time: 5:30 pm (Canberra / Melbourne / Sydney)
📍 Join via Zoom: https://lnkd.in/gsWjPS72

✨ Hosted by Camelia Wilkinson, Chair of the College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists (CEDP)

✨ New PD Exploring Court Matters ✨Developmentally complex children and families in Children’s and Family Court matters a...
05/10/2025

✨ New PD Exploring Court Matters ✨

Developmentally complex children and families in Children’s and Family Court matters are a highly vulnerable population.

Each family system carries unique layers of complexity that can be difficult to disentangle, making it challenging to identify and provide the most effective supports for both children and caregivers.

Often, these circumstances are shaped by an interwoven history of intergenerational and social issues, which necessitates a sensitive, comprehensive assessment process and a considered and collaborative therapeutic approach..

A massive thank you to Stephanie Lau and the CEDP - Victorian Branch for putting this webinar together.

To find out more and register to attend, visit
https://psychology.org.au/event/25611

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Australian Psychological Society College of Educational and Developmental Psychologists

What is Educational and Developmental Psychology?

Educational and Developmental Psychology is concerned with wellbeing across the lifespan, in particular, the development and learning of people throughout their lives. To this end, Educational and Developmental Psychologists work in a wide range of research and practice settings and may have one of many different titles, such as school psychologist, guidance officer, disability services officer, child and adolescent counsellor, and geropsychologist. Within these settings, Educational and Developmental Psychologists may work with individuals, couples, groups, organisations, or systems. In educational settings, Educational and Developmental Psychologists are centrally placed to identify and assist people with mental health and other psychological issues including learning difficulties. Wherever possible, early identification and intervention is essential for the treatment of mental health disorders.