”Coming home” with Dr Phil Watts at the Pacifica Congress Cairns 2024, on value of Pacifica Congress Conference, cross examination and norms in psychological tests

"Coming home" with Dr Phil Watts at  the Pacifica Congress Cairns 2024, on value of Pacifica Congress Conference, cross examination and norms in psychological tests

• Burn out. People are overloaded. Due to a lack of appreciation. Most people are not appreciative of what we do.
• Importance of support network. Brintyn shared his experience of what did and did not work. We do work in a risk zone. What can we do to manage risk.
• When cross examining an expert, key part is psychological tests are normed on a group of people. Westernised, English speaking people.
• Test may be of low validity if they have little connection with Anglo Australian background.
• Ask who was the test normed on? Looking at the presupposition of why the test was administered.
• Value of Pacifica Congress conference. "A bit like coming home." Where 100% of the content was relevant.