Summary Clinical Professions and Training Routes

Clinical Professions and Training Routes:
Monday, 24 September 2018 10:36



How many mental health professions can you name?
- Psychiatrist: specialisation of medicine.
- Mental health nursing.
- Counsellors.
- Support workers.
- Clinical psychologists.
- Counselling psychologists
- Occupational psychologists.
- Psychotherapists.
- Therapists.
- Improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT).
- Educational psychologists.
- Health psychologist.

Statutory regulations:
- Clinical and counselling psychologists are regulated by law.
- Counsellors and psychotherapists aren't.

Health Care and Professional Council (HCPC).
- Concerns the way you have the right to practise.
- Being set up by the government to protect the public from fraud clinical psychol
- You have to be registered to use the title.
- It regulates 15 health professions.
- When registered, you received a generic and specific title.

Generic titles Specific titles
Registered Clinical psychologist.
psychologist
Practitioner Counselling.
psychologist
Forensic psychologist.
Educational psychologist.
Health psychologist.
Occupational psychologist.
Sports and Exercise psychologist.

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