Inherent requirements of students training to be professionals

Question 1

What are the 6 graduate attributes?

Answer 1

1: Knowledge and understanding of core topics in psychology
2: Research methods in psychology
3: Critical thinking skills
4: Values, research and professional ethics
5: Communication skills
6: Learning and the application of psychology

Question 2

What are Thornton’s Five Cs of personal characteristics and values that a graduate should have?

Answer 2

• Competency: An acquired and personal characteristic
• Curiosity: A personal disposition
• Courage: A personal disposition
• Compassion: A personal disposition
• Contextual ethical reasoning: An acquired and personal disposition

Question 3

What are some of the new government initiatives?

Answer 3

• Stepped care approach
• Services for people with severe and complex mental illness
• Better Access

Question 4

Who is regulates the education and training of psychologists?

Answer 4

Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC)

Question 5

Who regulates Australian health services?

Answer 5

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)

Question 6

Who regulates registration of psychologists?

Answer 6

Psychology Board of Australia

Question 7

What factors are affecting the psychology workforce today?

Answer 7

• Growing expectations & demographic factors
• Technology: Computerization of workforce and skills e.g. CAT & “hollowing out” of service
• Multi-disciplinarity and inter-disciplinarity
• Inter-professional learning and professional practice
• Psychological skills, management skills and inter-personal skills
• Management of groups

Question 8

What is involved in the stepped care approach?

Answer 8

• the right service, at the right level for the right person e.g.:
self-help (digital services) in schools: mild
face-to-face treatment in schools: moderate
coordinated multi-agency services: severe & complex

• single mental health gateway (online & phone)

Question 9

What is involved in the services for people with severe and complex mental illness?

Answer 9

• new model of funding services 
• integration with  National Disability
Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
•  packages of care instead of 'better access scheme'

Question 10

What does the Better Access scheme provide?

Answer 10

access to psychological services through Medicare and (for mild) digital services

Question 11

What are the eight domains of inherent requirements?

Answer 11

• Ethical behaviour
• Behavioural stability
• Legal
• Communication
• Cognition
• Relational skills
• Reflective skills
• Sustainable performance