Psychology Graduate Students Research Articles

The integration of science and practice in one training program: Outcomes of a manualized career counseling group

An example of training Counseling Psychology graduate students in integrating science and practice is detailed through the presentation of the development, implementation, and evaluation of a Cognitive Information Processing approach-based career counseling group. Pilot data on initial group outcomes is presented and involves a sample of 59 undergraduate students that participated in the five-session intervention developed by faculty and students. Following the intervention, participants reported significant decreases in negative thinking and significant increases in career decision-making self-efficacy. The continued development of this collaboration and benefits of involving students in their training as scientist-practitioners is discussed.

Internists, pharmacists, and psychologists on learning teams: An interprofessional team-based learning experience in graduate medical education

Abstract Background Curricula in graduate medical education should include active learning, enhance critical thinking skills, and promote team-work. Team-based learning (TBL) is an active learning strategy shown to improve both test scores and participants' attitudes about teamwork. Purpose We sought to determine the feasibility of using TBL to enhance the ambulatory education of medical residents, pharmacy residents, and psychology graduate students. These learners often manage outpatients in parallel, but rarely have the opportunity to learn together in teams. Method We delivered three interprofessional TBL modules over the course of one academic year. We assessed learners' self-perceived improvements in knowledge, skills, and attitudes related to the objectives of each module, using a retrospective pre-post survey. Discussion Learners reported improvements in their knowledge, skills, and attitudes after each modules. Conclusions Interprofessional TBL appears to improve learning and participants' perception of managing patients in teams. Challenges include the time to develop modules and coordinating schedules for interprofessional learners.

Multiple Strategies to Prevent Premature Termination in Psychotherapy

A Review of Premature Termination in Psychotherapy: Strategies for Engaging Clients and Improving Outcomes by Joshua K. Swift and Roger P. Greenberg Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. 2015. 212 pp, ISBN 978-1-4338-1801- 1. $69.95 http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038612 Premature Termination in Psychotherapy: Strategies for Engaging Clients and Improving Outcomes is one of the very best examples of the new generation of psychotherapy development. Based on rigorous research findings and a deep look into the preexisting literature, this book presents practical guidelines to understand premature termination and provides evidence-based strategies for how to engage patients in treatment. It will especially be a highlight for practitioners who are interested in a broad insight of the overall empirical literature. For graduate students in clinical and counseling psychology, this book might be an excellent prototype for how to bring rigorous quantitative research and convenient practice examples together.

Great Expectations: Career Planning and Training Experiences of Graduate Students in Sport and Exercise Psychology

The success of upcoming professionals in the field of sport and exercise psychology is critical for its growth. A history of limited applied opportunities may lead to retention issues among trainees interested in applied careers. The current study investigated the career goals and perceptions of training among current graduate students. Results found that many master's- and doctoral-level students were seeking a career that involved applied work, and the majority of these students desired to work with collegiate athletes. These findings can be used to prepare students for the existing market conditions and offer insight for future professionals.

Phase-change lines, scale breaks, and trend lines using Excel 2013.

The development of graphing skills for behavior analysts is an ongoing process. Specialized graphing software is often expensive, is not widely disseminated, and may require specific training. Dixon et al. (2009) provided an updated task analysis for graph making in the widely used platform Excel 2007. Vanselow and Bourret (2012) provided online tutorials that outline some alternate methods also using Office 2007. This article serves as an update to those task analyses and includes some alternative and underutilized methods in Excel 2013. To examine the utility of our recommendations, 12 psychology graduate students were presented with the task analyses, and the experimenters evaluated their performance and noted feedback. The task analyses were rated favorably.

Psychology Graduate Students Weigh In: Qualitative Analysis of Academic Dishonesty and Suggestion Prevention Strategies

The current qualitative study investigated prevalence and types of academic integrity violations in psychology graduate students (N = 201) and solicited student recommendations for how academic institutions, professors, and peers may act to discourage or prevent its occurrence. Students were recruited through email lists and asked to participate in an online study with a series of open-ended questions assessing integrity violations and prevention recommendations. Results revealed academic integrity violations were relatively infrequent (8 % of the sample) and most (75 % of reported incidents) were of relatively low severity (e.g., unauthorized use of notes during an assignment). Common antecedents to integrity violations included inadequate preparation, task difficulty, and external stressors such as health ailments that interfered with preparation. Most (53 %) violators reported engaging in a rational decision making process, weighing the pros and cons of cheating, and most (60 %) did not reveal the violation to anyone. The majority of violations (81 %) resulted in no negative consequences to the student and 44 % reported they would do it again. Students recommended better dissemination of integrity policies, greater oversight of graduate students, harsher punishments for violations, and consistent reporting of violations as prevention strategies. Results highlight how academic dishonesty in psychology graduate students may be a product of multiple time and resource demands, coupled with low self-efficacy to meet or negotiate these demands. Despite reports of external pressures being the top reason for academic integrity violations, few recommendations focused on decreasing external pressures as a mechanism to curb cheating.

Leigh A. Carter and Jeffrey E. Barnett, Self-care for Clinicians in Training: A Guide to Psychological Wellness for Graduate Students in Psychology

Review of book: Self-care for Clinicians in Training: A Guide to Psychological Wellness for Graduate Students in Psychology

A liga acadêmica como ferramenta da formação em Psicologia: experiência da LAPES

Mediante uma revisão literária, este artigo trata do surgimento da Psicologia como profissão, que se deu conjuntamente com a construção do campo da Psicologia Educacional e Escolar. Nesse contexto, tem-se como objetivo problematizar a relevância formativa de uma liga acadêmica na construção de uma prática e de uma teorização acerca dos espaços educacionais formais e não formais. Foi realizado um mapeamento quantitativo das Ligas Acadêmicas de Psicologia existentes, visando a uma contextualização histórica que represente o quadro brasileiro. A partir deste quadro, aprofunda-se a discussão sobre a LAPES e sua importância como instrumento formativo para graduandos em Psicologia.

Counselling Older Adults Living in Residential Aged Care Settings: Four Illustrative Case Studies

The role of psychologists and other mental health professionals in long‐term care settings is undefined in Australia. Graduate psychology students receive little training in clinical geropsychology, and residential aged care providers do not routinely employ psychologists within such settings. Further, despite high rates of depression, neurocognitive problems, and other mental health problems, residents are rarely referred for evidence‐based psychological treatment. This article presents four case studies showing how psychology services may be employed in such settings within the context of a postgraduate psychology placement programme. These case studies emphasise the importance of engagement, the use of flexible and individualised treatment approaches, and the involvement of family and professional carers in the provision of psychological services. Psychology services in residential settings can have a positive impact on the care of older adults and their families.

Interprofessional Team-Based Learning Module: Dementia, Depression, and Delirium

Abstract This team-based learning activity is intended to be completed as an interprofessional educational exercise with medicine residents, pharmacy residents, and psychology graduate students. Th...

Constructing sexualities: A critical overview of articles published in Feminism & Psychology

How have sexualities been dealt with in articles published in Feminism & Psychology since the inception of the journal in 1991? The idea for this overview arose from our experience of designing a critical sexualities course for graduate students in psychology. The articles featured in this overview form part of a Virtual Special Issue that can be located on the Feminism & Psychology website. Virtual Special Issues (VSI) are collections of previously published articles, which have been compiled by guest editors who are experts in the field. VSIs provide readers with an overview of feminist thought about a topic or theme, as well as an easy way to locate pertinent articles. Scholars who are approaching a new topic may find a VSI especially useful, as will instructors who are preparing course syllabi. This article introduces the Constructing Sexualities VSI.

Asociación entre afectos y optimismo en estudiantes del curso de Pedagogía

This is a study on the relationship between affection and optimism in students of Pedagogy from a private school in the metropolitan region of Campinas. The sample is comprised of 186 university students aged 18-56. 99.5% out of the total are undergraduate women, from the first to the last year of Pedagogy, and graduate students of Psychology and Pedagogy. The Affection Scales and Revised Life Orientation Test Brasil (lot-r) were applied. The results of the study showed higher levels of positive affections. They also showed group differences. Optimism and hope levels were higher for freshmen and graduate students. Older students are more realistic and less hopeful than those in middle-range age categories. In terms of the relationship between the constructs, the results showed a moderate correlation between optimism and positive affection.

Adam M. Reid: APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.

The APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology is awarded on an annual basis by the APA Board of Professional Affairs (BPA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding practice and application of psychology. One of the 2015 award winners is Adam M. Reid, who received this award "for his community service, in which he has integrated the highest standards of professional psychological clinical practice and science." Adam's award citation, biography, and a selected bibliography are presented here.

Polustrukturirani intervju - lista osnovnih razvojnih informacija za decu i mlade LORI-DIM

Many psychodiagnosticians consider the interview to be the basic and irreplaceable method and even the 'crown witness' of the psychodiagnostic battery. Accepting that point of view and acknowledging the fact that semi-structured interviews have been gaining in popularity, this paper aims to offer psychologists (undergraduate and graduate psychology students, psychology interns, those specializing in and specialists of medical psychology) a solid semi-structured interview. Based on theoretical knowledge and grounded in decades of practical experience, including thousands of interviews conducted with children, adolescents and their parents, this paper presents a semi-structured interview called The List of Basic Developmental Information for Children and Adolescents (LBDI-CA). We hope that our co-practitioners will find this semi-structured interview useful as a foremost technique from the developmental age psychodiagnostic battery for the assessment of children and adolescents.

Counseling psychology trainees' experiences with debt stress: a mixed methods examination.

Financial debt accrued by graduate psychology students has increased in recent years and is a chief concern among psychology trainees (El-Ghoroury, Galper, Sawaqdeh, & Bufka, 2012). This study examined debt stress among counseling psychology trainees using a complementary mixed methods research design. Qualitative analyses (N = 11) using the consensual qualitative research method (CQR; Hill, Thompson, & Williams, 1997; Hill et al., 2005) revealed six domains, 15 categories, and 34 subcategories. Domains included social class contributions, institutional contributions, long-term effects, coping mechanisms, personal relationships, and effect on well-being. The transactional model of stress and coping (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) and social class worldview model (Liu, Soleck, Hopps, Dunston, & Pickett, 2004) guided quantitative analyses. Results of a path analysis (N = 285) indicated total debt and subjective social class were significant predictors of debt stress and that the relationship between debt stress and psychological distress was mediated by avoidant coping. Avoidant coping also moderated the association between debt stress and psychological distress. Results are discussed in relation to professional training and the career development of counseling psychology trainees.

Perceptions and experiences in higher education: a national study of multiracial Asian American and Latino/a students in psychology.

Demographic trends suggest increasing numbers of multiple racial heritage students attending U.S. campuses and universities, a change reflected within psychology. However, there is little empirical investigation into the educational experiences and needs of multiracials. The current study (the second in a series of studies to use data from a national survey of psychology graduate and undergraduate students) compared 2 multiracial groups, Asian American/European American and Latino/a/European Americans, with their single-heritage counterparts on several variables of interest-academic supports and barriers, linkage between barriers faced and ethnicity, and perceived cultural diversity. Results indicated that multiracial groups reported more of a link between academic barriers experienced and their ethnicity than European American students, but less of a link than their monoracial minority peers. No differences between groups were found related to academic supports, academic barriers, and perceived cultural diversity. Study limitations, future research, and implications are discussed.

Training novice psychotherapists: Comparing undergraduate and graduate students' outcomes

AbstractAim: This paper describes and contrasts the impact of two 13-week counsellor training programmes in integrative-experiential psychotherapy; one with 24 undergraduate psychology students presented in this paper, and the other with archival data from Pascual-Leone and Andreescu's study of 22 clinical psychology graduate students. Method: The programmes taught psychotherapy to trainees who conducted single sessions with eight volunteers. Outcomes of these sessions were measured at four time points using both trainee and client reports. Findings: Undergraduate trainees significantly improved in fostering a therapeutic alliance, helping skills, and in their confidence (partial eta Sq. = .628). Most of this effect seemed to occur in the first nine weeks. When baseline scores were compared across the two training groups, undergraduate trainees were not performing as well as graduate trainees at fostering alliance and helping skills and this difference held throughout training (p's < .007). Implications: ...

APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.

APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology.

Connecting Cultures: A training model promoting evidence-based psychological services for refugees.

Training clinical psychology graduate students in providing effective psychological services to refugees can be extremely complex. The training approach requires a culturally sensitive framework, potential modification of empirically validated techniques, and flexibility on the part of trainees and supervisors. Connecting Cultures is a program that creates a culturally sensitive context from which trainees can learn to effectively work with refugees within a social justice framework and the ecological model of human development. Connecting Cultures graduate students provide both community-based outreach and direct clinical services to meet the mental health needs of refugees in the Northeast region of the United States. The primary aim of this manuscript is to provide an overview of Connecting Cultures' training and supervision model, highlight the importance of working with cultural consultants, interpreters, and community elders, and discuss the impact this work has on clinical psychology graduate students. A secondary aim is to describe our method for evidence-based psychological assessment and to present preliminary outcome data from our graduate students. Strengths of the Connecting Cultures program include its clinical and research efforts with refugees from over 20 countries, and its ability to flexibly incorporate alternative therapeutic frameworks such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Finally, the manuscript concludes by providing the implications of our work in attempting to meet the mental health needs of refugees after resettlement.

Transana Qualitative Video and Audio Analysis Software as a Tool for Teaching Intellectual Assessment Skills to Graduate Psychology Students

This article draws on the author's experience using qualitative video and audio analysis, most notably through use of the Transana qualitative video and audio analysis software program, as an alternative method for teaching IQ administration skills to students in a graduate psychology program. Qualitative video and audio analysis may be useful for psychology programs to more effectively and efficiently train students on IQ administration. Through use of Transana, video and audio footage and corresponding verbal and nonverbal transcripts of student-conducted IQ administrations can be coded and organized and later retrieved by any combination of codes, file or clip identifiers, or collections of clips and presented as a simultaneous, running display of video, audio, and corresponding transcripts that facilitates rich analysis and feedback.