The insurers are already looking at the price tag
The Board sells the five-year degree as a faster pathway. Medibank's submission asks the question students should be asking: how will funders pay a lower-qualified psychologist?
Dr Aaron FrostClinical Psychologist
I've spent my career making the work of therapy visible: measuring outcomes, training supervisors, and speaking up for the profession. I help psychologists and health services do better work through supervision, consultation and training.
What I do
Supervision
Support through Board complaints, emergency supervision, and ongoing supervision for registrars and experienced psychologists.
Consultation
For health services building outcome measurement, and practice owners who want to run a better practice.
Training
Supervisor training, registrar training, keynotes and workshops. Educator of the Year, 2024.
Latest writing
When the complaints body flags a safety risk, you listen
The Psychology Council of NSW, the body that deals with complaints about psychologists, warned that an AQF 8 entry standard could expose graduates to unsafe practice.
When a university says it might "exit the market entirely", believe it
The five-year degree is pitched as a way to train more psychologists, faster. The University of Western Australia's submission warns it could leave us with fewer.
The supervision bottleneck: solving the wrong problem
A quarter of Australian psychologists are Board-approved supervisors. So why is everyone screaming about a supervision shortage? Because the system doesn't pay them to supervise.