Kinder warten bis zu 13 Jahren auf einen Psychologen
https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2025/1110/1543052-child-psychologist-services/
Von RealDealMrSeal
Kinder warten bis zu 13 Jahren auf einen Psychologen
https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2025/1110/1543052-child-psychologist-services/
Von RealDealMrSeal
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As in, Children forced to wait until they’re adults to see psychiatrists?
Amazing that RTE wrote an article on the lack of psychologists and managed not to quote one psychologist in it. There’s an entire psychological governing body in Ireland, who should have been asked for an opinion on this – though they would of course have said that the issue is the government isn’t funding enough psychologists to be qualified, there aren’t enough primary care roles, and that they need to do more – as they have been for years.
Incredible to lock out the entire field of psychology in this piece.
Edit: here is the Psychology Society of Ireland’s pre-budget submission which in point 1 clearly says increased funding for primary care is needed – https://www.psychologicalsociety.ie/source/Advocacy/PSI%20Pre-Budget%20Submission%20for%20Budget%202026.pdf
Article says „people of means“ have an advantage to see a psychologist. This isn’t true – there are very few child psychologists in Ireland, and the ones we do have here have full waiting lists.
Unless you happen to know one personally that owes you a favour, or can get one through bribery or blackmail, you will not get your child in front of a child psychologist in this country.
I was listening to this on RTE just now.
The solution is obvious but won’t be taken because of the outrage it would cause.
Clear the list. Simply abandon all those on it because they’re not getting the help anyway and start fresh within a reformed intervention system.
We’ve a broken system for a child to receive any help in school they need a diagnosis. Parents now chase diagnosis when it may not be appropriate for their child. Reforming of our education system is the necessity
Sure everything is fine. Don’t know why you’re complaining. .
Our older daughter we just diagnosed abroad. Of course report wasn’t valid in Ireland, but we applied for assessment when she was almost 4 and she got her ASD diagnosis when she was 14. We were able to squeeze two more appointments before she was transferred to adult services. On the other hand appointment to pediatrician for her headaches took only two years, next 6 months for follow up and decision to see neurologist. She is still waiting for the last one. Our younger daughter was waiting 3 years for assessment and she received a refusal due not enough evidence the assessment is needed at all. While I was holding the results from one made abroad 2 years earlier.
I see no problem here at all.
Kids are meant to be assessed by a public health nurse at certain milestones.
Our first was assessed as expected but we had to chase the check around 2 years. Our second was two of the checks and that was it. Our 3rd was seen once after birth, that’s it.
Friends kid isn’t talking so she had to fight for a public nurse appointment, she was told that the queues for most of what she needed were years long. The doctor was available to do a wee assessment though, only took two weeks.
System was never good but seems to have been broken by the pandemic and never recovered
I don’t get this. We’ve loads and loads of money and resources but an absolutely ludicrous inability to plan services and it results in crazy situations like this developing.
A waiting time like that isn’t just a slight issue – it’s a catastrophic systems failure.