Health Ministry to regulate psychologist sector

The Health Ministry plans to make a National Association of Psychologists to modulate the assemblage and bring bid to an unmonitored tract of intelligence wellness services.

The body, which will relation likewise to the National Medical Association and will beryllium abstracted to the relation of psychiatrists, received furniture support earlier this week.

Under the scheme, each psychologists will beryllium required to registry with the caller association, submit impervious of qualifications and show rank astatine their offices.

The relation will oversee licensing, morals and nonrecreational standards, service arsenic the government’s authoritative counterpart, and supply disciplinary oversight.

“Psychology is the lone large tract without a regulatory framework,” Deputy Minister Dimitris Vartzopoulos told Kathimerini, adding the measure will clarify the explanation of “psychologist” for the archetypal clip since 1979.