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Israel has eased licensing requirements for new immigrant psychologists as part of broader efforts to support practitioners in regulated professions, addressing a manpower shortage in the health sector.

Senate Bill 847 aims to expand mental healthcare access on Kauaʻi and the Big Island by enabling trained psychologists to address wait times in rural areas. The legislation seeks to improve availability of services through qualified professionals.

One-third of psychologists report patients using AI as a second therapist. Experts argue AI's design is 'antithetical' to mental health care despite growing reliance on it for support.

A new APA survey found that over a third of psychologists have patients using AI as an additional mental health professional, despite clinicians' warnings that the technology may reinforce delusions.

Reform UK's civil service reform plan, led by MP Danny Kruger, proposes cutting 13% of civil service roles to save £5bn annually. The analysis reveals the plan would eliminate more planning officers than currently exist and reduce prison staff-supporting psychologists by two-thirds.

Psychologists studied 32,500 dad jokes to understand what makes them successful or unsuccessful. The study aims to figure out the factors that contribute to the popularity of cheesy puns. The research focuses on the elements that make dad jokes fly or flop.

A recent AI model called Centaur claimed to mimic human thinking across 160 cognitive tasks, but new research suggests it merely memorizes patterns rather than truly understanding. This challenges debates about whether the human mind can be explained by a unified theory or requires separate components like memory and attention.