Outcomes of beginning trainee therapists in an outpatient community clinic

Vos, Joël; Chryssafidou, Evi; Rijn, Biljana van; Stiles, William B.

doi:10.1002/capr.12466

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“…The involvement of trainee psychologists delivering Option 3 of the service was acceptable to most service users and service users suggested that this support was equivalent to their other experiences of therapy. Evidence reviews have both supported the contention that trainees can effectively improve outcomes and rejected the notion that this is because trainees are allocated service users with less severe symptoms [39,53].…”

Section: Intervention Acceptability and Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time for You: A process evaluation of the rapid implementation of a multi-level mental health support intervention for frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic

McCann,

Hunter,

McAloney-Kocaman

et al. 2023

PLoS ONE

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had wide-ranging negative impacts on mental health. The pandemic also placed extraordinary strain on frontline workers who were required to continue working and putting themselves at risk to provide essential services at a time when their normal support mechanisms may not have been available. This paper presents an evaluation of the Time for You service, a rapidly developed and implemented intervention aimed at providing frontline workers with quick access to flexible online mental health support. Time for You provided service users with three service options: self-guided online cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) resources; guided engagement with online CBT resources; 1–1 psychological therapy with trainee sport and exercise psychologists and trainee health psychologists. A process evaluation informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research considered service fidelity, adaptations, perceived impact, reach, barriers, and facilitators. Interviews with project managers (n = 5), delivery staff (n = 10), and service users (n = 14) explored perceptions of the service implementation and outcomes, supported by data regarding engagement with the online CBT platform (n = 217). Findings indicated that service users valued the flexibility of the service and the speed with which they were able to access support. The support offered by Trainee Psychologists was perceived to be of high quality, and the service was perceived by service users to have improved mental health and wellbeing. The rapid implementation contributed to issues regarding appropriate service user screening that led to trainee psychologists being unable to provide the service users with the support they needed as the presenting issues were outside of trainees’ competencies. Overall, the findings suggest that interventions offering flexible, online psychological support to frontline workers can be an effective model for future interventions. Trainee psychologists are also able to play an important role in delivering such services when clear screening processes are in place.

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Section: Intervention Acceptability and Impactmentioning

confidence: 99%