A survey of the current and future directions of professional psychology in Acute general hospitals in australia

Groth‐Marnat, Gary

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“…The national ratio of FTE psychologists to acute public hospital beds identified in this study was 1:62—yielding a ratio of approximately 0.16 FTE psychology staff for every 10 beds. This represents a notable increase in staffing levels since the psychology workforce was last surveyed approximately twenty years ago—reporting at that time a ratio of 1:367 beds (Groth‐Marnat, ). The large variation in the size of hospitals surveyed, however, suggests that FTE to bed ratios might be more meaningfully explored as a function of hospital size (small, medium, and large).…”

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“…This is particularly relevant for psychology services, with data indicating that 82% of psychologists work in major cities (Health Workforce Australia, ) and therefore, unsurprisingly, the majority of hospital‐based psychology services are located in larger metropolitan hospitals. Australian data suggest that where inpatient psychological services are provided, they typically target the areas of mood, cognitive function, cancer/palliative care, diabetes, substance misuse, brain injury, eating disorders, and chronic pain (Groth‐Marnat, ; Touyz, Blaszczynski, Digiusto, & Byrne, )—the latter three also being most commonly identified in the international literature (Humbke et al., ).…”

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“…This suggests that the contribution of the discipline in the hospital setting is being increasingly recognised (Touyz et al., ) and is consistent with the expansion of medical psychology (psychologists working in hospital or medical settings) in other countries. While the international data regarding hospital‐based psychology services is limited (for Australia, see Groth‐Marnat, ; for USA, see Pate & Kohout, ; Tovian, Rozensky & Sweet, ; for Canada, see Ali, ; for the Netherlands, see Soons & Denollet, ; for New Zealand, see Stewart, ), the available information suggests that there is a large degree of variation in clinical practice, organisational structures, and staffing levels for hospital‐based psychology services (Soons & Denollet, ) —both within and between countries.…”

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An Investigation of Psychology Staffing in Australian Metropolitan Acute Public Hospitals

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2015

Australian Psychologist

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Psychology is one component of the multidisciplinary services provided to patients in acute public hospitals, with research demonstrating that psychological intervention significantly enhances clinical outcomes for patients across a range of health issues. Despite the increasingly important role that psychologists play in Australian hospitals, there remains a lack of information available about staff levels, discipline structures, and clinical activity for psychological services within acute hospital settings. The most recent Australian data about hospital-based psychology services was collected 20 years ago. The current study provides updated information from a survey of 15 Australian metropolitan, acute public hospitals: presenting and critically reviewing staffing configurations and models of service delivery. Results suggest that: (a) hospitals employ a highly skilled workforce at a rate of 0.16 full-time equivalent psychology staff for every 10 hospital beds; (b) psychologists have a viable career pathway within the hospital-based health sector; (c) role diversity is common, with the primary focus varying as a function of position level; (d) neuropsychology staffing requires urgent attention to address significant delays in access to services; and (e) public hospitals actively contribute to current and future workforce development through supervision, research, and training. The implications of these results for the future of psychological services in Australian healthcare are discussed.

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“…Importantly, a substantial number reported that their training had not adequately prepared them for their professional activities. Groth-Marnat (1988) reported that the majority of large teaching hospitals in Australia employ at least one clinical psychologist, not infrequently in areas unrelated to traditional mental health or psychiatry, such as in neurology, coronary care, and pain control. In this s w e y of hospital administrators, some of the nominated growth areas for clinical psychologists were in emergency services, substance abuse, and working with the terminally ill.…”

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Training health psychologists: A model for the future

Richards

1992

Australian Psychologist

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Over the past two decades, health psychology has become increasingly recognised around the world as a subdiscipline in its own right. Rather than representing merely another division in psychology however, it has provided a focal point for psychologists from other branches of the discipline, particularly those from social, physiological, and clinical psychology. The early health psychologists were primarily researchers who turned their skills to the problems of health‐compromising behaviours and health care systems. Although this research emphasis has continued, increasingly clinical psychology practitioners have become involved in physical health care and rehabilitation settings. With the increasing realisation in many countries that currently available training programs do not provide adequate preparation for these developments, appropriate training standards have become the subject of considerable local and international debate. Although health psychology training in Australia lags behind that in both North America and Europe, it may benefit by taking the best from the models developed on those continents. An optimal training model for Australian health psychology may integrate at the doctoral level thorough professional training with expert research skills.

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“…Nevertheless, there have been some attempts to survey medical psychology in Australia (Groth-Marnat, 1988), Germany (Herzog & Hartmann, 1990), South-Africa (Schlebusch & Simpson, 1987) and the United States of America [USA] (Tovian, Rozensky, & Sweet, 2003;Pate & Kohout, 2005).…”

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Medical Psychology Services in Dutch General Hospitals: State of the Art Developments and Recommendations for the Future

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Denollet

2009

J Clin Psychol Med Settings

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In this article an overview is presented of the emergence of medical psychology in the care of somatically ill patients. The situation in the Netherlands can be considered as prototypical. For 60 years, clinical psychologists have been working in general, teaching and academic hospitals. Nowadays, they are an integrated nonmedical specialism working in the medical setting of hospitals in the Netherlands, and are a full-member of the medical board. This paper discusses several topics: the position of the general hospital in the health care system in the Netherlands, the emergence of medical psychology in Dutch hospitals, the role of the professional association of medical psychologists, and the characteristics of patients seen by clinical psychologists. Following the discussion about the situation of medical psychology in other countries, recommendations are formulated for the further development of medical psychology in the Netherlands as well as in other countries.Keywords Medical psychology Á General, teaching and academic hospitals Á Clinical care Á Education Medical psychology is an emerging discipline in general hospitals all over the world. There is wide variation in penetration of this profession in the hospitals, their place in the organization, the patients seen and the financing of their work. In this article, we describe the development of medical psychology over the last 60 years in the Netherlands. We investigate the state of the art, the recent and oncoming developments and challenges medical psychologists will face, and we formulate recommendations on how to enhance the development of this profession. We consider the situation in the Netherlands as an example of how medical psychology can be developed and implemented in clinical care. We hope to contribute to an internationally focused discussion about a more unified vision on the practice of medical psychology. In our vision there should be internationally accepted standards about organizing and financing psychological care in hospitals.

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A survey of the current and future directions of professional psychology in Acute general hospitals in australia

Cited by 12 publications

References 27 publications

An Investigation of Psychology Staffing in Australian Metropolitan Acute Public Hospitals

An Investigation of Psychology Staffing in Australian Metropolitan Acute Public Hospitals

Training health psychologists: A model for the future

Medical Psychology Services in Dutch General Hospitals: State of the Art Developments and Recommendations for the Future

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