PROGRAM
Program Overview
The 2025 APS Festival of Psychology is designed to equip participants with the latest insights and practical tools to advance their professional practice and enhance mental health outcomes. The 2025 festival offers a unique opportunity for psychologists at all stages of their career—whether you are new to the field, have prior experience, or possess significant expertise.
Learning Outcomes
By attending the festival, participants will:
1. Critically evaluate cutting-edge interventions, technological applications, and advancements in psychological assessment, and apply these insights to clinical and organizational settings to enhance both mental health outcomes and workplace well-being.
2. Integrate principles of inclusion, neurodiversity, and cultural sensitivity into their psychological practices, creating more equitable and accessible mental health services for diverse populations.
3. identify innovative training pathways, professional development strategies, and evolving standards in psychological practice to advance their careers and contribute to the future of psychology as a profession.
Level of Learning
This festival is designed for all levels of learning—Foundational, Intermediate, and Advanced. Whether you are new to the topic, building on previous knowledge, or a seasoned expert, the 2025 APS Festival of Psychology offers valuable insights and learning opportunities for everyone.
Festival Themes
The 2025 festival's themes were inspired by member insights through the Thought Exchange. The program will be shaped around these topics.
- Interventions for Psychological disorders and problems
- Training pathways/professional practice
- Inclusion and diversity/Cultural perspectives/Neurodiversity
- Building healthy workplaces
- Technology and Psychology
- Advancing Psychological assessment: Innovations, challenges, and best practice
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KEYNOTE PRESENTERS
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Dr Judith Beck
President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy
Judith S. Beck, PhD, is President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (beckinstitute.org), a nonprofit organization that provides state-of-the-art training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Recovery-Oriented Cognitive Therapy (CT-R).The Beck Institute also offers certification in CBT, and online courses on a variety of topics, in addition to conducting research and providing CBT resources around the world. Dr. Beck is also Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. She has written over 100 articles and chapters, workbooks, pamphlets for professionals and nonprofessionals, and 7 books, including Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond, 3r dEdition (2021) and Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems: What to Do When the Basics Don’t Work. She has made hundreds of presentations nationally and internationally on various applications of CBT and is the primary developer of the Beck Institute’s on demand CBT training courses, which have been taken by more than 28,000 health and mental health professionals in over 130 countries. Dr. Beck also provides supervision and treats clients.
Dr Emily Holmes
Professor, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University
Emily Holmes grew up in Surrey, England, and earned a BA in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1993. She then pursued a master's degree in Social Science at Uppsala University, Sweden, focusing on haptic perception in blind individuals. After a year at art college, she spent several years in New York, working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, leading touch tours for visually impaired visitors, and supporting homeless individuals with mental health challenges. This experience influenced her career path. Holmes returned to the UK, completed her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London in 2000, focusing on PTSD and intrusive memories, and earned a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Cambridge University in 2005. She was awarded the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship in 2005, and in 2010, she became a Professor of Clinical Psychology at Oxford. From 2012 to 2016, she led a program at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge.
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2025 APS Festival of Psychology Secretariat
Australian Psychological Society
Level 11, 257 Collins Street
Melbourne 3000
Australia