New Ways of Working: Training Model Project Group

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New Ways of WorkingTraining Model Project Group

• Chairs
• Prof. Mike Wang Prof. Jan Burns

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Training Model Group Constitution

• Representatives of
• all applied Divisions training committees
• Membership Professional Training Board
• Psychology Education Board
• Group of Trainers in Clinical Psychology
• Committee for the Scrutiny of Individual Clinical
  Qualifications
• Affiliates Group (Psychology Assistants and
  Trainees)
• Graduate Mental Health Primary Care Workers
• BPS Service Users and Carers Group

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Training Model Group Brief

• Review current training models including
  capacity, application rates, gender and BEM
  ratios
• Generate radical alternatives which address
  inclusion, access to psychological therapies,
  capacity-building, Service User perspectives,
  unification, flexibility, APEL, etc.
• Consider GBR
• Develop criteria for evaluating models

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What have we done so far?

• Started at the end where do we want to get to?
• Criteria for evaluating models

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Criteria for evaluating models

• Should maximise benefits of psychology to society
• Should be inclusive of large numbers of
  psychology graduates
• Should represent unified approach to applied
  psychology in health social care
• Should not undermine quality maintain standards
  of clinical governance
• Should equip trainees with different levels of
  competence within a developmental framework
  integrated into service delivery model
• Should be inclusive of diversity

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Next steps

• Looked at what we have already trying to
  understand more about where we come from
• Conclusion
• A multiplicity of training models across the
  applied psychologies, moulded by historical
  developments, professional frameworks and service
  structures not necessarily client need

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Breaking out of the box

• Finding some overlaps across the applied
  psychologies
• Involvement in psychology undergraduate syllabus
• Models of training that have already started to
  break out of the box

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Blue sky thinking

• Developing some alternative models
• Starting to play with these
• Evaluating against the criteria
• Feasibility if there is a will there is a way?

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A vision one coherent model

• A pyramidal model with a variety of psychology
  graduate roles at the base and the consultant
  psychologist at the apex
• Facilitation of upward movement
• Increased emphasis on supervision with higher
  levels in pyramid
• Training grades actively and structurally
  involved in service provision
• Placement constraints mitigated by integrated
  supervised service model (cf medicine)