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The most pressing challenges facing the I/O Psychology profession is obtaining endorsement and formal supervision. Notwithstanding these challenges, our focus also remains firmly on engaging the I/O Psychology community and bringing a sense of collaboration and unity to our profession.

SIOPA’s submissions

2020

Social and Economic Benefits of Improving Mental Health

Draft Report

SIOPA recognises the importance of recommendations provided by the Productivity Commission and welcomed the opportunity to provide a submission on the draft report findings and recommendations.  Our submission emphasises the application of a strategic approach to workplace mental health and evidence based practice to ensure workplaces can achieve a motivated, flourishing and appropriately placed workforce to support the mental health of workers.

2019

Social and Economic Benefits of Improving Mental Health

Terms of Reference

Organisational Psychologists go beyond a narrow ‘mental health’ focus to highlight the social and economic benefits of the application of I/O Psychology to achieving a motivated, flourishing, appropriately placed workforce (e.g. people better matched to jobs in terms of ability, personality, competencies and values). I/O Psychology strongly emphasises the application of psychological science and practice at the individual, team and organisational levels. Organisational Psychologists apply a systems approach to work which results in productive organisational cultures, leadership, learning, communication, work design and person-technology interaction.

2018

Mentally Healthy Workplaces

Organisational Psychologists’ are subject matter experts in optimising organisational performance and employee well-being. Our expertise and knowledge of individual, group and organisational factors means we are well placed to accurately identify the root cause of an issue, and identify effective prevention and intervention strategies at all levels of the organisation.

Supervision and Supervisor Training Providers

SIOPA recognises the requirement for standards and registration guidelines to ensure a highly skilled and capable profession, in which the public is protected. Given this, we recommended the Psychology Board of Australia develop two separate guidelines; one for supervisors and one for supervisor training providers, including the incorporation of the revocation policies into their associated guideline.

2017

Registration and Standards

SIOPA recognises the requirement for standards and registration guidelines to ensure a highly skilled and capable profession, in which the public is protected. SIOPA advocates that National Examinations should not be required for graduates who complete Masters or Doctoral Psychology training programs as a pathway to registration. The requirement to complete the National examination in addition to the extensive training and supervision they have already completed is burdensome and unnecessary. Graduates have already demonstrated their competence through extensive assessments and supervised practice. Furthermore, we strongly recommended the National Examination is re-designed to be an assessment of the core competencies of all disciplines in which an entry level psychologist could work and apply psychological principles, including Community Psychology, Educational and Developmental Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Health Psychology, Organisational Psychology, and Sport Psychology, and not focused predominantly on Counselling and Clinical Psychology competencies (the current design).

 

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