Hi Tweet-Heart,
Thanks for your post. AHRPA was right to refer you to the APA Code of Ethics as this is the one that all psychologists follow, even though psychologists practice differently - whether that's private practice, with a clinic, as part of your employer or with Centrelink.
A big part of answering this question is how you know your Clinical Psychologist and how you were referred to them or where they are based. If you are seeing them as part of a work-safe claim for example then their interests and information recording is going to be different vs if you were seeing them private practice. This also includes the information that they'll be able to disclose.
As a general rule though, all psychologists will keep their own file and that's up to them whether that's electronic or hard-copy.
They also have the right (and are recommended) to have a two part record. The first part is the client record, which contains standard information about you (name, address, phone, dates of each appointment, letters from the GP). The second part is the confidential client record. This is where more information about the appointments are included, sensitive information, test records, etc. Generally third parties (like worksafe) will only request the standard record, but they can request the second one.
Hope this answers your question! It might be best if you can chat with your clinical psychologist about it - that way he/she can give you much more clarity.
