Dr Stephen Tang
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, CONSULTANT RESEARCHER
About
Dr Stephen Tang is a Canberra-based clinical psychologist and legal-psychological consultant researcher. He has over 15 years' experience in researching and promoting mental health and wellbeing in the legal profession, judiciary and in the academy.
Qualifications
PhD (Clinical Psychology), LLM (Legal Practice) (with Distinction), GDLP, LLB (First Class Honours), BPsych (First Class Honours), Australian National University
Clinical Psychologist (Psychology Board of Australia); Member of the Australian Psychological Society (MAPS) and Fellow of the APS College of Clinical Psychologists (FCCLP).
Admitted to the Supreme Court of the ACT and the High Court of Australia.
Work
Stephen is currently in private practice providing psychodynamic psychotherapy and therapeutic assessment services as a clinical psychologist. He is a Senior Policy Advisor with the Australian Psychological Society. Stephen also serves as a human research ethics committee member with Bellberry Limited and as an associate editor on the academic journal Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.He was previously a Lecturer at the ANU College of Law where he led internationally-recognised research including on psychological wellbeing, ethics and professional identity in the legal profession. Stephen is currently consulting on a project on wellbeing, workplace culture and ethics in lawyers across the Legal Profession Uniform Law jurisdictions with colleagues from ANU and the University of Melbourne.Stephen has also worked for the ACT and Commonwealth governments in legal policy, research and clinical roles. He previously consulted to the World Health Organisation on mental health policy, law and human rights. Stephen started his career as a lawyer in a top-tier Sydney firm, but found that life was far more interesting outside of the billable hour.
Selected Publications
S Tang, V Holmes & T Foley, ‘The Impact of Ethical Climate on Lawyer Ethics, Job Satisfaction and Wellbeing: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers’ (2020) 33 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics 1035.
S Tang, T Foley & V Holmes, ‘Ethical Misconduct by New Australian Lawyers: Prevalence and Prevention’ (2020) 27 International Journal of the Legal Profession 245
S Tang & T Foley, ‘The Practice of Law and the Intolerance of Certainty’ (2014) 36 UNSW Law Journal 1197.
S Tang & A Ferguson, ‘The Possibility of Wellbeing: Preliminary Results from Surveys of Australian Professional Legal Education Students’ (2014) 14 QUT Law Review 27.
V Holmes, T Foley, S Tang & M Rowe, ‘Practising Professionalism: Observations from an Empirical Study of New Australian Lawyers’ (2012) 15 Legal Ethics 29.
M Townes O’Brien, S Tang & K Hall, ‘Changing Our Thinking: Empirical Research on Law Student Wellbeing, Thinking Styles & the Law Curriculum’ (2011) 21 Legal Education Review 149.
N Drew, M Funk, S Tang, J Lamichhane, E Chávez, S Katontoka, S Pathare, O Lewis, L Gostin & B Saraceno, ‘Human Rights Violations of People with Mental and Psychosocial Disabilities: An Unresolved Global Crisis’ (2010) 378 The Lancet 1664.