The fact she went on to get actual qualifications is almost weirder to me somehow than if she was just an out and out spoofer?!
>However, officials in the HSE are in disagreement over whether or not her assessment reports should be accepted
The ones she did when she didn’t have qualifications should definitely be redone!
Is anyone saying her assessments of the needs of the children were wrong. Did the re-assessment come to the same conclusions. ???
Fairly mad that she was able to spoof having a doctorate. They’re rare enough and usually easily verifiable by searching the person on the university website or in the university’s library, as they’ll have a copy of the thesis. Very stupid thing to lie about.
Fake it till you make it!
Given the prevalence of imposter syndrome in HSE administration, I’d say she felt right at home.
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I’d give her one!
This is nuts. If scammers get away with this in the HSE then they could do it anywhere.
I’m off to do a search on Linkedin to see if anyone I know has a degree from that made up university.
It is more common than what we think. Please be cautious in blindly accepting recommendations for psychologists her. Private psychologists charge an abhorrent amount one needs to be careful
Am i right in saying that in other countries you can work as a psychologist with a Masters degree? And that the requirement for a psychologist in Ireland is a doctorate?
I’m not a gynecologists but I’ll take a look!
Good program on tonight about it, fundamentally though buck stops with the HSE and government.
hard to believe something like this could slip through the racks of our reliable almighty state bureaucracy.
[Celebrity psychologist Heffernan regrets ‘living lie’ of fake PhD
A celebrity psychologist has said he regrets misleading people by using a fake PhD to lecture, provide counselling services, and appear on radio shows as a “doctor.”](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30967027.html)
This is common in Ireland and it gets brushed under the carpet. People want status and money, just as the qualified psychologists do and there in internal politics in the mental health world
Sheffield State eh- 🧐I fancy doing a bit of neurosurgery at the w/e
If she could work as a psychologist for ten years with nobody noticing she lacked any training or qualifications, perhaps that says something about the discipline itself.
>CORU, the regulator for health and social care professionals, was tasked with regulating a range of professions in 2007.
>They have made some progress, however psychologists remain unregulated.
This woman is a disgrace but the real disgrace is that, after 16 years, CORU still haven’t gotten around to regulating psychologists. Wonder what else they haven’t done.
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The fact she went on to get actual qualifications is almost weirder to me somehow than if she was just an out and out spoofer?!
>However, officials in the HSE are in disagreement over whether or not her assessment reports should be accepted
The ones she did when she didn’t have qualifications should definitely be redone!
Is anyone saying her assessments of the needs of the children were wrong. Did the re-assessment come to the same conclusions. ???
Fairly mad that she was able to spoof having a doctorate. They’re rare enough and usually easily verifiable by searching the person on the university website or in the university’s library, as they’ll have a copy of the thesis. Very stupid thing to lie about.
Fake it till you make it!
Given the prevalence of imposter syndrome in HSE administration, I’d say she felt right at home.
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I’d give her one!
This is nuts. If scammers get away with this in the HSE then they could do it anywhere.
I’m off to do a search on Linkedin to see if anyone I know has a degree from that made up university.
It is more common than what we think. Please be cautious in blindly accepting recommendations for psychologists her. Private psychologists charge an abhorrent amount one needs to be careful
Here is another case,
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2022/08/05/therapist-working-in-dublin-forged-professional-qualifications-court-told/?fbclid=IwAR0JBcScdBkz8YzdDSiuzOCfQpqDChXc9yU914ROO3mJym2hmQSLXA3cHQw
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/therapist-faces-trial-for-using-forged-university-degrees-1346243.html
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Am i right in saying that in other countries you can work as a psychologist with a Masters degree? And that the requirement for a psychologist in Ireland is a doctorate?
I’m not a gynecologists but I’ll take a look!
Good program on tonight about it, fundamentally though buck stops with the HSE and government.
hard to believe something like this could slip through the racks of our reliable almighty state bureaucracy.
[Celebrity psychologist Heffernan regrets ‘living lie’ of fake PhD
A celebrity psychologist has said he regrets misleading people by using a fake PhD to lecture, provide counselling services, and appear on radio shows as a “doctor.”](https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-30967027.html)
This is common in Ireland and it gets brushed under the carpet. People want status and money, just as the qualified psychologists do and there in internal politics in the mental health world
Sheffield State eh- 🧐I fancy doing a bit of neurosurgery at the w/e
If she could work as a psychologist for ten years with nobody noticing she lacked any training or qualifications, perhaps that says something about the discipline itself.
>CORU, the regulator for health and social care professionals, was tasked with regulating a range of professions in 2007.
>They have made some progress, however psychologists remain unregulated.
This woman is a disgrace but the real disgrace is that, after 16 years, CORU still haven’t gotten around to regulating psychologists. Wonder what else they haven’t done.