ABSTRACT
Clinical psychology as a discipline sails within complex, challenging and competing contextual waters. Against this background, human rights-based approaches can provide an anchor to enable trainee clinical psychologists to critically conceptualise legal, moral and regulatory currents and assist them to navigate disparate areas of policy and practice. Human rights-based approaches aim to promote human rights through empowering rights holders to claim their rights and by holding organisations to account in delivering their human rights obligations. Human rights education is not often considered within the training of healthcare professionals, although there are honourable exceptions. Recent developments within the Liverpool programme have advanced the human rights-based approach through key, interwoven, strands. The need for accountability is nowhere more evident than in selection processes for healthcare training. Involving experts by experience in all parts of clinical training can be particularly complex during clinical placements when the roles of service provider and service user are most explicit.
