Canadian Psychological Association / Societe canadienne de psychologie
Registration:
18
of
41
(2016-06-24
to
2017-03-27)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Continued investments in students through graduate scholarships, internships, and fellowships.
- Continued, increased, and balanced funding for psychological research via base funding for the granting councils, as well as stabilized funding for operating and infrastructure support.
- Ensure core research funding for granting councils and funding for students that recognizes the role of psychological factors in research, particularly in health and the neurosciences
- Obtain Federal support of the infrastructures and mechanisms necessary to collecting information on Canada's Health Human Resource (HHR) upon which HHR planning can rely
- Obtain contributions for the training of Canada's mental health human resources.
Policies or Program
- Create a Chief Science Officer mandated to ensure that government science is fully available to the public, that scientists are able to speak freely about their work, and that scientific analyses are considered when the government makes decisions.
- Create federal residency placements for psychologists within federal departments
- Disability Management Initiative in the Public Service with respect to mental health conditions to identify prevention programs and longer term needs.
- Establish a chief clinical psychologist position at the Department of National Defence within the Mental Health Directorate.
- Expand the CanLearn program include psychologists
- Help to address mental health needs within the military through mechanisms which could enhance recruitment and retention of psychologists in the military such as the development of federal residency training programs for psychologists and putting psychologists in uniform.
- Improve access to mental health and psychological services with respect to all Canadians
- Leadership in the development, innovation and delivery of evidence-based in respect of needed and accessible mental health and health service
- Proposed changes to the HST/GST attached to reports and services for non-health care purposes. CPA is concerned that this change will lead to unintended consequences for Canadians seeking mental health treatment and that Canadians will now have to pay taxes on some psychological services that were once exempt.
- Psychological services provided through the Non-Insured Health Benefits Program for First Nations and Inuit persons
- Remove the requirement that employees of the federal public service must get a referral from a medical doctor before qualifying for reimbursement for psychological services
- Revisit the extended health care insurance plans for federal public employees and all other beneficiaries. Make sure that coverage provided for psychological services affords the employee meaningful levels of service. Those Federal government departments that enter into contracts for service from registered psychologists pay at least the recommended rate set by provincial and territorial associations of psychology across Canada.
- Statistics Canada to re-instate numerous discontinued surveys that are critical to the development and maintenance of good programming and policy.
- Taxation - Tax Programs in respect of persons with disability related to mental functions
Policies or Program, Regulation
- Chapter 7 of Agreement on Internal Trade and its impact on the regulation and mobility of psychologists