Working as a Clinical Psychologist in Taiwan

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Hi :slight_smile:

I’m a 24 year old assistant psychologist in the UK. I have a first class bachelors degree in psychology & a Master’s degree further specialising in Clinical Psychology. I have spent a year working within a psychiatric hospital and another working within a community mental health team. I have a long term goal of becoming a clinical psychologist, and have submitted an application for the DCLIN doctoral course in the UK.

Due to a variety of boring and confusing factors, I am interested in moving to Taiwan. My options seem to be:

  1. Wait for my DCLIN which will take a very long time, move over, practice privately online.
  2. Move to Taiwan to complete appropriate qualifications there at a University. Practice in person and online privately.

I’m just really confused when I look into step 2. I don’t know how easy/realistic it is for me as an English person to become a clinical psychologist if I were to engage in study in Taiwan. From my own research I seem to need to complete a PhD and an official sort of exam. There seems to be plenty of PhD courses that are taught in English when I search but I’m not sure what I’m missing.

Please help!

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did you already check these rules?

Psychologists Act

Enforcement Rules of the Psychologists’ Act

Senior Professional and Technical Examinations Regulations for Psychologists

i don’t think you need a phd to get a certificate.
without a certificate you cannot use the title of psychologist.
the exam questions are in chinese, but maybe you can answer in english.

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