Perspectives of psychology training clinics from training and clinic directors.

Psychology training clinics in Australia and New Zealand: Clinic structure

“…Results are discussed below in relation to the two key surveys previously conducted in a similar population: Serafica and Harway (1980) and Calhoun and Green (1984). These surveys were both North American, thus separated culturally and geographically as well as temporally from the current sample.…”

“…Directors of clinical training were not asked to report statistics on clinic throughput and finances, resulting in a 33item questionnaire for that group. Six questions (Sections C1, C2, C4, and C8) were drawn directly or almost directly from Calhoun and Green (1984), the only previous known survey of clinic directors and directors of clinical training; remaining questions were developed for the present research. Questions were highly structured, focused on collecting the minimum information necessary to provide a snapshot of the clinics (from a quantitative perspective) and to examine the hypotheses of the study.…”

“…This represents an increase from Serafica and Harway (1980), who found that 22% of training programs did not have such a facility. (Around that time, however, 95% of training program faculty already believed that it was important to have an integral clinic in a training program; Calhoun & Green, 1984. ) Directors of clinical training are now less likely to also be the clinic director (5% of current sample vs. 22% in Serafica and Harway,and 68% in Calhoun and Green).…”

“…Comparison with these two earlier surveys will form an important part of the discussion of the findings of the present survey. Therefore, rather than report on the papers further at this point, the findings of Serafica and Harway (1980), and Calhoun and Green (1984), will be compared in detail to the findings of the present survey in the discussion.…”

“…They went on to introduce the first survey conducted of clinic directors, examining organisational structures, functions and priorities of training clinics. Following on from this study, Calhoun and Green (1984) examined the concordance of views between directors of clinical training programs and psychology clinic directors on issues relevant to various aspects of training.…”