- Title
- The regulation of psychology in Australia
- Creator
- Waring, Trevor
- Relation
- Global Promise: Quality Assurance and Accountability in Professional Psychology p. 164-185
- Relation
- http://www.oup.com.au/titles/academic/psychology/9780195306088
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- The history of psychology and the professional practice of applied psychology as a discipline are relatively young. This is particulaity so in the Australian context, where the discipline of psychology has been taught in universities for only 60 years and the actual regulation of the profession throughout the country was finally fully implemented only a decade ago. In this short time, a sophisticated method has developed of unifying the education, training, and regulation of the profession at a national level. This has been achieved to the satisfaction, of the discipline, academia, profession, and government regulators; and, in late 2006, psychologists joined other medical and allied health disciplines whereby an individual can consult and be treated by a psychologist under federal government funding. Like other developed countries, Australia faces a range of problems likely to benefit from the intervention of psychologists but also faces workforce shortages of adequately trained professionals, a problem currently being addressed, with the comfort of the knowledge that education, training, and regulation are unified and functioning at only the highest levels of quality with nationally controlled standards.
- Subject
- psychology; universities; professional practice; standards; regulation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804504
- Identifier
- uon:6636
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780195306088
- Language
- eng
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