What titles will be protected?
The Government legislation protects seven titles: Clinical Psychologist, Health Psychologist, Counselling Psychologist, Educational Psychologist, Occupational Psychologist, Sport and Exercise Psychologist, and Forensic Psychologist. In addition there will be two generic titles Practitioner Psychologist and Registered Psychologist, but these will only be available to registrants who already hold one of the seven ‘specialist’ titles. Post statutory regulation, it will potentially be an offence to use one of these titles without being on the Health Professions Council register.
