Dutch for psychologists —
the language that is
also the licence.
For a foreign-trained psychologist the Dutch language is not a soft skill: it sits inside the AKV-toets, inside every dossier that can be read back to you, and inside the trust of a client saying something out loud for the first time. Forty-two days on the sentences the work actually consists of — intake, risk, formulation, records, MDO, supervision, and a Dutch vakgroep. Nothing here is legal advice: verify every registration step with BIG-register/CIBG, Nuffic, DUO and the NIP.
What actually changes at this level
The plan, ticked off as you go ✓
Six weeks: the route and the intake, then diagnostics and treatment, then law and records, then teams, the academic track and a full mock. Tap a day when it is done — the sidebar and the library homepage both keep the count.
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Say the Dutch out loud from the English before you flip — recognition is not recall. Mark anything you produced correctly but slowly as hard: at a counter, slow is wrong.
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Articles in colour: de · het. Learn every noun with its article attached — de/het decides the relative pronoun and the adjective ending later. Tap a word to hear it, select it for the dictionary.
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Each scene has an outcome: a job, a prescription, a repair, a place in a school. Read your side out loud, then cover the Dutch and rebuild it from the English.
AKV-toets, vakinhoudelijke toets, BIG — and what each one is for
The clinical route runs diploma assessment → AKV-toets (Dutch language and professional communication) → vakinhoudelijke toets → any required aanvullende opleiding → inscription in the BIG-register, with the scope decided case by case. The academic route needs none of it — but a Dutch vakgroep runs on Dutch socially and administratively, which is why both tracks live in this volume. Rules and formats change; confirm everything with BIG-register/CIBG, the credential evaluation body, DUO and your beroepsvereniging before you book or pay for anything. Sixteen mock items below. 🎯
The level that matters here is not a certificate. It is whether a Dutch client keeps talking.
Work this volume alongside B2 and C1: B2 gives you the register of a dossier and a casusbespreking, C1 gives you supervision, teaching and the promotieverdediging. Then keep going in the work itself — files in Dutch from day one, case discussions in Dutch even when they are slower.