Editorial: Setting Standards, Shifting Paradigms

Abstract

In arguably a watershed year for counselling, psychotherapy, and Indigenous healing practices in Australia, this issue of the Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia (PACJA) is the first since it moved to the Scholastica platform. The move is helping PACJA meet international standards for peer-reviewed journals, in terms of discoverability, design, device-friendly pages, and other features. It comes at a time when the Australian Government has announced funding for the development of national standards for psychotherapists and counsellors, and for two independent peak bodies representing people who live with mental ill health and their carers and kin. This editorial details the articles in Volume 11 (1) of PACJA which emphasise the paradigm shifts accompanying these announcements.