Psychologists in Ghana: analysis of the standing register
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Date
2016
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New Voices In Psychology
Abstract
The maiden register of the Ghana Psychological Council published in September 2015
represents the first national official standing register of psychologists in Ghana. Drawing on
this maiden register, this paper presents a seminal analysis of the distribution of psychologists
in Ghana in terms of categories of specialisation, gender composition, areas of employment,
location of practice, and institutions of training. A copy of the gazette of registered
psychologists was obtained from the office of the registrar of the Ghana Psychological
Council and quantitative content analysis was conducted on the list of registered mainstream
psychologists. Among other things, the analysis shows that there are 166 (largely Ghanaiantrained) psychologists categorised into six main subfields in the country. Females represent
the majority in terms of gender composition. Colleges/polytechnics/universities are the main
areas of employment; the practising locations of 69.9% of the psychologists are in Accra,
with no psychologist registered from the Brong-Ahafo and Upper East regions. Despite the
challenges with the maiden register of psychologists in Ghana, the register does provide a
good database for reflections on the availability, diversity and distribution of psychologists
in Ghana.
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Ghana,, Brong-Ahafo,, Accra, Gazette,, Ghana Psychological Association,, Ghana Psychological Council,, Psychologist,, Register