• What’s happening
    • The scopes 2003-2021
    • What Board is saying now
    • Why we believe it is wrong
    • Consequences
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Introduction

We are encouraging psychologists not only to respond to the Board’s consultation via the Board’s own consultation form, but also to replicate their submission by adding it to this site through the form below. The rationale for this is to ensure there is an accessible repository of submissions to the Board. Without such a repository, it will be difficult to know if the Board’s response to the feedback it receives reflects the views and concerns that psychologists and others express.

Please note that, if you are willing to replicate your submission here, we may publish aggregated statistical information, and some or all of your submission, if we consider it necessary or desirable to do so in the interests of the profession and the people we serve. We will not publish information that does or could identify you. If you have any concerns or wish to ask any questions about this, please email us at info@sunlight.org.nz. We also encourage you to read our privacy statement.

If you wish to complete your submission on this site in more than one sitting, you can use the form's 'save and continue' feature (you can find the 'save and continue' button at the bottom of the form). When you click that button, you'll be given a unique link (which you can also email to yourself) that you can come back to later to further edit or complete your form submission. You can use the 'save and continue' feature up to the point you submit your full response. The link is similar to a password so be sure not to share it with anyone.

About you

1. Are you(Required)

Questions about the framework

2. Broadly speaking, do you think the proposed approach will address the current issues with scopes of practice?
4. Is it clear from the information provided whether you, as an individual, would need to apply for an endorsement(s) to continue performing the full range of your current practice?
6. Are you a practitioner who thinks you would need to apply for an endorsement?
7. If you are a practitioner who would need to apply for an endorsement to continue performing the full range of your current practice, do you think the proposed assessment approach is fair?
9. Are there other endorsements to existing scopes of practice you think should be introduced?
11. Do you agree with the proposal to introduce additional scopes of practice?
13. Do you think a kaupapa Māori scope of practice should be developed?
(Please note that this is a question the Psychologists Board has asked. For the purposes of this copy of the feedback form, if you enter your email address here, that means you are willing for a member of the psychologists working group / collective to contact you.)

Other questions

This section is not part of the Psychologists Board's consultation form. We are asking some additional questions to help us explore general sentiment and concerns among the profession. In particular, a working group of psychologists has several concerns relating to the consultation process and other matters, some of which are referred to on this website and below. We would like to understand to what extent other psychologists share these concerns. You do not have to answer these questions, but we would be grateful for any information you are willing to provide.
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(Note: Contrary to what the currently-composed Board is saying, we believe strongly that prior iterations of the Board were not mistaken in how they applied the scopes, that the currently-composed Board's assertion is incorrect, and that the consultation is based on an incorrect foundation.)
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22. We are concerned by several interactions that psychologists have had with the Board in recent times. Have you had experiences or communications with the Board in recent years that you have found surprising, upsetting, disrespectful or otherwise contrary to how you believe a regulatory authority like the Board should behave?
(Such experiences or communications can be in any context, including applications for registration, audits, complaints, proceedings, competence reviews, Board representation at roadshows or workshops, etc)
23. We are concerned about a growing number of psychologists voicing their fear of the Board or the consequences of the Board's actions. If you fear the Board or the consequences of its actions in any of the ways listed below, please select them (you can select more than one)
This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.
About

This site has been created in the interests of a large number of psychologists who are concerned about the future of the profession as a result of communications and a consultation paper in 2023 on scopes of practice.

Contact

Email info@sunlight.org.nz or you can use our contact form. Please note it may take us up to 7 days to reply.

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