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|Psychology
Welcome to thePsychology Council
of New South Wales
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How can we help?
Who we are
Our Council is made up of eight members, including psychologists, a legal member and community representatives.
The type of complaints we manage
We manage complaints about the clinical care and treatment, professional behaviour or health of registered psychologists and students in NSW.
What we do
We manage complaints about the conduct, performance and health of registered health practitioners and students in NSW.
Publication and popular resources
The Council regularly publishes electronic newsletters to communicate useful infromation, resources and updates to NSW psychologists.
Our website can provide you with more information about the assessment and management of a complaint. You can also contact us.
Our role
We protect public health and safety by ensuring that psychologists in NSW maintain high professional standards.
We publish electronic newsletters with useful information, resources and updates for psychologists in NSW.
Psychology Council of NSW
Latest News and Updates
You need reliable, evidence-based information to be able to make good choices about your healthcare. But in a climate thick with commentary about...
The Psychology Council of NSW (the Council) is a statutory authority whose functions include dealing with complaints and health and performance...
We frequently receive complaints from individuals who have requested from their current or prior treating psychologist access to their client record...
Supervisors play a key role in the training and assessment of the psychological competencies required to become a registered psychologist. The fact...
The Better Access to Mental Health Care initiative has dramatically expanded the availability of evidence-based psychological services. It has also...
The Health Practitioner Regulation National Law (NSW) (National Law) requires practitioners, employers and education providers to report ‘notifiable...
New Medicare Telehealth Items under the Better Access to Mental Health Care Initiative Incidence of mental (and other) health issues and inequities...
The Council frequently receives notifications about psychologists misusing protected titles, for example, referring to themselves as a Clinical,...
Questionnaires, tests, inventories, instruments, and so forth – let’s call them “psychometric instruments”, or simply “instruments” for present...
Obtaining consent from clients prior to providing them with psychological services is a fundamental given. ‘Informed consent’ is a procedure that...