The friend of my boyfriend is from Toronto, Canada and is finishing her PhD in Toronto, Canada. but I will not go into a discussion of this)Ī couple of important things to note before I move onto my questions.Īgain, I am referring to the role of clinical psychologists outside of private practice. psychological associate or registered psychologist) do not differ in what they are allowed to do and their scope of practice. licensing only differs in educational requirements but different levels of licensure (i.e. the situation in Ontario is quite interesting. I recently started an RAship at a psychiatric hospital in Toronto (CAMH) and have noticed the same trend within the programs that I have been able to be involved in.Īnother interesting point that she brought up was the ability to pursue the career path she would eventually be forced upon with only a masters degree (of course this varies by regional regulations. I have been hearing about this shift toward private practice though out my undergraduate degree but, again, she said that the role of the clinical psychologist was dying outside of private practice, whereas I thought that it would still be at least possible to pursue a career as a clinical psychologist in a psychiatric hospital (I'm personally not as interested in working in private practice and want to help people within the context of a public, psychiatric hospital). She indicated that she and a lot of her colleagues would end up having to go into private practice, which is obviously quite a bit different than working in a hospital setting, for example.
We were specifically discussing clinical psychologists who aren't in private practice. social workers, even occupational therapists, etc) doing psychotherapy. What she meant by this was that- in her experience, and in the experiences relayed to her by colleagues, current clinicians and people in the field in general- the role of clinical psychologists is increasingly being filled by 1) psychiatrists doing increasing diagnosis and psychotherapy and 2) counsellors typically with masters level training who aren't necessarily psychologists (e.g. in her words "clinical psychology is dying". The discussion I had with her quite frankly summed up to this. I was talking to a friend of my boyfriend who is just finishing her PhD in Clinical Psychology. (I can't imagine how stressful it must be.) I have a question/discussion topic that I have wanted to post here for a long time but have held off on posting it because I know that we are in the middle of application season and that everyone's time is probably completely dedicated to applications and everyones posts here are seeming to revolve around that.
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