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?
Training & workforce
How psychologists are trained, and what that training buys.
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.
Did the Psychology Board forget 2022, or are they hoping we did?
Four years ago the Board closed the undergraduate-heavy pathway into psychology. Now it proposes a five-year undergraduate degree. Both can't be right.
The five-year psychology degree is a Trojan horse. Let's look at the maths.
The proposed five-year degree is sold to exhausted students as a faster pathway. Look inside: hundreds of hours of unpaid placements and a qualification downgraded to AQF Level 8.
Manufacturing a Mandate: The Proposal No One Wants
When the Psychology Board recently released their summary of the 2,500 submissions regarding the proposed psychology training reforms, the executive summary was glowing. They pointed to strong endorsement of the model,…
Higher degree resign: AI summarises the submissions
The Psychology board of Australia has just released their summary of feedback from the public consultation into the redesign of psychology…
Therapy Myths
I was recently asked to respond to the question of whether or not it has been “proven” that “General Psychologists” get the same outcomes as “Clinical Psychologists” and that there is in fact no value to Master’s training. I have been of the opinion for some time that a number of people have …