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Journal article
Newly graduated Australian psychologists' interest and confidence in psychological approaches for psychosis: what role can psychology training providers play in increasing access to psychological interventions for psychosis?
Australian Psychologist, Vol.59(5), pp.449-457
2024
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Abstract
Objective
Despite recommendations in international guidelines, implementation of psychological therapy for psychosis is limited. Clinician level factors (i.e. attitudes, confidence, and training) are significant barriers to implementation, but have not been investigated within the context of Australian professional psychology graduates. The current study aimed to examine predictors of interest and confidence in working therapeutically with people with psychosis in recent graduates of Australian psychology postgraduate training courses.
Method
An online survey was completed by 108 recent graduates from Australian postgraduate psychology courses. Participants provided data on hours of training, practicum experience, stigma, therapeutic optimism and levels of interest and confidence in working therapeutically with people with psychosis.
Results
Participants reported low levels of training and practical experience in psychological therapy for psychosis. Participants with higher training hours and who had delivered an intervention to someone with psychosis during training reported significantly more confidence in their ability to work with people experiencing psychosis. However, stigma was the only significant predictor of interest; psychologists with higher stigmatised attitudes were less interested in working with psychosis.
Conclusions
Increased opportunities for practicum experience with people with psychosis and interventions that address stigma in professional psychology training may support increased interest and confidence in providing psychological interventions for psychosis.
Details
- Title
- Newly graduated Australian psychologists' interest and confidence in psychological approaches for psychosis: what role can psychology training providers play in increasing access to psychological interventions for psychosis?
- Authors
- L. J. Rackemann - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - PsychologyA. Wood - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - PsychologyR. M. Brand (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Psychology
- Publication details
- Australian Psychologist, Vol.59(5), pp.449-457
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/00050067.2024.2342789
- ISSN
- 1742-9544; 0005-0067
- Copyright note
- © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Data Availability
- The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author, RB, upon reasonable request.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Psychology
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991019598902621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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- Web Of Science research areas
- Psychology, Multidisciplinary
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