AAPi Director Katrina Norris is quoted in an article in The Age and other Nine newspapers about the rise of workplace mental health services, and concerns by psychologists that skill shortages and low pay rates have impacted the number of qualified clinicians working in the sector.
Dr Norris said EAPs and similar services were not paying enough to attract qualified mental health clinicians in the current job market.
“Working for an EAP is not necessarily valued work for registered psychologists. You start to drive out the qualified professionals because they will not work for $90 an hour,” she said.
“To be delivering acute and in-the-moment services, that does require [EAPs] to be employing social workers, psychologists ... as opposed to other professions who do not have the skills."
Read the full article here.