Term of Reference Update 2025

The ToR is currently in the process of being updated

Terms of Reference

The terms of reference of the ePsychology Interest Group are:

• To develop a network of members and subscribers throughout Australia who are interested in the areas of telephone and internet-based psychological and counselling services (also referred as telepsychology or web-counselling) to be known as the APS Interest group on ePsychology (eIG)
• To provide support for this network by exchanging relevant information about seminars, conferences and workshops that are relevant for providers of telephone and internet-based psychological and counselling services.
• To exchange information about developments in research and professional practice in the area of telephone and internet-based psychological and counselling service provision.
• To explore and utilise the APS website, newsletters, workshops, conferences and other mechanisms and media, where appropriate, for the exchange of all such information.
• To enhance professional awareness of the extent and range of telephone and internet-based psychological and counselling services that are available throughout Australia.
• To increase awareness amongst other health and mental professions who are involved in the provision of telephone and internet-based services of the existing and potential contributions that psychology and psychologists are making, and might make in the future, to telephone and internet-based service delivery.
• To explore and formulate policies and guidelines for the best practice in these areas of service delivery, which cover issues relating to quality management, professional development, strategic research, and other related issues.
• To explore and formulate policies and guidelines that promote the ethical delivery of services using these technologies, and the ethical management of information that these services generate.