An obverse factor analytic study of values in psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and nurses

Abstract

A functional approach to clinical psychology. PROBLEM Recent 7 s 9 vlo, 14* 16) suggest that the patient-therapist relationship is of considerable importance in therapeutic outcome and that this relationship is strongly influenced by the therapist's values, needs and orientation. This study investigates the values for human happiness held by the three major mental health professions (psychology, psychiatry and social service) and by nurses to discover whether identifiable types emerge.

Medical and Nursing Students: concepts of Self and Ideal Self, Typical and Ideal Work Partner

“…In keeping with this outlook --on life the students consistently rated family as being of higher value to them than career, Davis and Olesen studied the same students for three years and found no change of this point of view during this time span. The traditional view-of the nurse as being submissive and fitting well into the feminine stereotype is supported by several studies (Bailey, Warshaw and Cohen, 1963;• Ryback, 1968;Muhlenkamp and Parsons, 1972).…”