Current consultations

The Board carries out wide-ranging consultation on proposals that affect the profession.

The Board may also publish a discussion paper to explore and seek feedback on practice issues that could affect the profession and the public.

Where there are consultations or discussion papers open for input, they will be shown below.

Where there are consultations which have closed, they will be shown under Past Consultations, along with the submissions that were received.

Public consultation – Updating the Guidelines for the national psychology exam

The Psychology Board of Australia is consulting on updating the Guidelines for the national psychology exam.

The current Guidelines for the national psychology exam have been in effect since 2019 and are therefore due for review. The purpose of this review is to:

• ensure the exam guidelines reference the recently updated competencies for general registration as a psychologist in Australia
• introduce an exemption from sitting the exam for some internationally trained applicants for registration in line with the recommendations from the Final report of the independent review of overseas health practitioner regulatory settings (the Kruk review), and
• generally update and refresh the exam guidelines in line with good regulatory practice.

We invite practitioners, members of the community, employers and other stakeholders to give feedback on our proposal. We are particularly keen to hear from people who are required to sit the exam, such as provisional psychologists, students undertaking fifth-year programs, internationally qualified psychologists, and their supervisors.

• Consultation paper - Updating the exam guidelines (307 KB, PDF), Word version (224 KB, DOCX)
• Attachment A – Draft Guidelines for the national psychology exam (240 KB, PDF), Word version (207 KB, DOCX)
• Attachment B – Public consultation submission template (184 KB, DOCX)

Released: 28 January 2025
Closes: 24 March 2025

Making a submission

If you wish to provide detailed feedback, please complete the feedback submission template at Attachment B and submit the form by email to: psychconsultation@ahpra.gov.au.

To provide brief feedback you can use the online consultation survey. This survey includes multiple choice questions and some limited free text options for you to provide written feedback. The format follows the ‘questions for consideration’ that are listed on page 8 of the consultation paper.

Publication of submissions

Submissions to this consultation may be published on the Board’s website. There may be circumstances under which submissions may not be published. Published submissions will include the names of individuals and/or organisations that made the submission unless confidentiality is requested.

Resources

An advance copy of the Professional competencies for psychologists is published on our website.

The Kruk review recommendations can be found at this website.