Perspectives of clinical students on training in community mental health and community psychology

Zolik, Edwin S.; Sirbu, William; Hopkinson, David

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“…The survey included 36 items that addressed various topics of interest to community psychologists (according to Walfish et al, 1984; Andrulis et al, 1977; and Zolik, Sirbu, & Hopkinson, 1976), such as research methods, change and intervention procedures, and assessment procedures. All respondents were asked whether they had used each specific technique in either their field training or their graduate program (course work, supervision, etc.).…”

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Graduate training and employment experiences of community psychologists.

Feis¹,

Mavis²,

Weth³

et al. 1990

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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We surveyed the graduate training and employment experiences of 177 current students and 152 recent graduates from 39 psychology programs. Of interest were differences among applied social, community and community-clinical programs. Results suggested that these training programs represented a continuum of research, community, and clinical interests. Applied social and community programs had a stronger community and research emphasis, whereas community-clinical programs had a stronger orientation toward clinical skills. Similarly, the job skills used by recent graduates suggested that persons from applied social programs went into administrative and organizational consulting jobs, graduates of community-clinical programs were employed in areas demanding more human services skills, and community graduates found jobs requiring the use of research skills.To understand the breadth of community psychology, one needs to consider its history and examine both the education of its future scholars and their subsequent employment experiences. The roles and functions of community psychologists have evolved continuously since the historic Swampscott Conference of 1965 (Bennett et al, 1966) and the formation of the Division of Community Psychology within the American Psychological Association (APA; Barton, Andrulis, Grove, & Aponte, 1976). Subsequent conferences in Austin (Iscoe & Spielberger, 1970), Vail (Korman, 1974), and Tampa (Stenmark, 1977 have each resulted in a position paper reformulating the mission of community psychology. Most recently, in South Carolina, a conference was held to discuss graduate training in community psychology (Elias, Godin, & Dalton, 1987;Mavis, Feis, Davidson, & Weth, 1988). CAROLYN L. FEIS received her PhD in ecological psychology from Michigan State University in 1990. She is currently a social science analyst in the Program Evaluation and Methodology Division of the U.S. General Accounting Office. The views and opinions expressed herein do not reflect the position of the General Accounting Office. BRIAN E. MAVIS received his PhD in ecological psychology from Michigan State University in 1988. He is currently with the Department of Psychiatry at Michigan State University in the evaluation of substance abuse treatment programs and health promotion programs. Jo E. WETH received her MA in ecological psychology from Michigan State University in 1987. She is currently the assistant director of the Native American Fellows Program at Michigan State University and a doctoral student in ecological psychology and urban studies at Michigan State University. WILLIAM S. DAVIDSON II received his PhD in psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in 1976. He is a professor of psychology and the chair of the Ecological Psychology Program at Michigan State University. THE AUTHORS ACKNOWLEDGE the support of the Council of Community Psychology Program Directors in completing this research.

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Graduate training and employment experiences of community psychologists.

Feis¹,

Mavis²,

Weth³

et al. 1990

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

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“…There do not appear to be more recent data regarding the CI training in Community Psychology training programs since surveys taken in the mid-1970s. At that time it ranked highly in polls concerning relevant courses by both students and faculty (Barton, Andrulis, Grove, & Aponte, 1976;Zolik, Sirbu, & Hopkinson, 1976). However only 55°7o of the students polled indicated that the academic coverage was adequate.…”

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Training community psychologists for crisis intervention

Kalafat

1984

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Previous reports about the training of community psychology students have focused broadly on community-related training topics and processes (see Walfish, Polifka, & Stenmark, 1984;Zolik, Sirbu & Hopkinson, 1976). Only in a few cases, have community psychologists looked at training practices related to multicultural issues (Trickett, Irving, & Perl, 1984).…”

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Multicultural training practices in community psychology programs

Suárez-Balcázar

Durlak

Smith

1994

American J of Comm Psychol

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Surveyed the directors of 56 community psychology graduate programs to assess multicultural training practices and attitudes. Although most program directors agreed that multicultural training is important in their mission to educate students, less than half the programs (48%) required their students to take any relevant course work and only half of the programs surveyed had any faculty who were members of an ethnic minority group and one third had only one such faculty member. Furthermore, less than half the programs had a combination of training opportunities in place to integrate classroom, research, and field experiences relevant to multicultural issues. Finally, only 23% of program directors believed their training programs were successful for most students, suggesting the need to improve training. KEY WORDS: multicultural training; human diversity in community psychology programs; training in minority issues, multicultural training practices and attitudes.

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Perspectives of clinical students on training in community mental health and community psychology

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Graduate training and employment experiences of community psychologists.

Graduate training and employment experiences of community psychologists.

Training community psychologists for crisis intervention

Multicultural training practices in community psychology programs

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