Gerontological Training in Apa Accredited Clinical and Counseling Psychology Programs

Johnson, Mark; Rosich, Rosellen

doi:10.1080/0360127970230103

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“…Despite APA's 2004 adoption of recommendations for the knowledge and skills required to work with older adults, counseling psychologists in the present study had relatively little pre-doctoral training in aging. This finding is consistent with, and disappointingly seems not much improved from Johnson and Rosich's (1997) Rosich surveyed, none required a course on aging. Over half of the participants in the current study (61.3%, n = 223) rated their pre-doctoral training in aging as a "3" or lower and only 1.6% (n = 6) of participants reported that their pre-doctoral training in aging was "very extensive."…”

Section: Implications Of the Current Studysupporting

confidence: 85%

Predicting counseling psychologists attitudes and clinical judgments with respect to older adults

Tomko

2013

Aging & Mental Health

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The purpose of this study was to examine age, gender, training and experience in aging issues, fear of death, and multicultural competence in predicting counseling psychologists' global attitudes toward older adults and specific clinical judgments concerning a case vignette of an older client. A national sample of 364 practicing counseling psychologists participated in the study. Participants completed a demographic measure, Polizzi's refined version of the Aging Semantic Differential (Polizzi, 2003 ), a survey of professional bias based on a clinical vignette of a 70-year-old woman (James & Haley, 1995), the Collett-Lester Fear of Death Scale 3.0 (Lester, & Abdel-Khalek, 2003), the Multicultural Counseling Knowledge and Awareness Scale (MCKAS; Ponterotto, Gretchen, Utsey, Rieger, & Austin, 2002), and a Training and Experience Questionnaire. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses were used to investigate the extent to which the selected variables predicted more favorable attitudes toward older adults and less professional bias toward an older client beyond prediction by age and gender. Results revealed that older age and higher total scores on the MCKAS predicted less professional bias in clinical judgments. Gender was a significant predictor of global attitudes toward older adults. Findings suggest that multicultural knowledge, awareness, and skills are important in working with older adults.

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Section: Implications Of the Current Studysupporting

confidence: 85%

Predicting counseling psychologists attitudes and clinical judgments with respect to older adults

Tomko

2013

Aging & Mental Health

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“…The number of psychology doctoral programs offering a specialization focused on older adults ranged from 4% (i.e., clinical geropsychology; Perry & Boccaccini, 2009) to 9% (i.e., clinical and counseling psychology programs with a specialization in gerontology; Ryan & Agresti, 1999) to 14% (i.e., clinical and counseling psychology programs with an aging specialization; Johnson & Rosich, 1997). The number of psychology doctoral programs offering a specialization focused on older adults ranged from 4% (i.e., clinical geropsychology; Perry & Boccaccini, 2009) to 9% (i.e., clinical and counseling psychology programs with a specialization in gerontology; Ryan & Agresti, 1999) to 14% (i.e., clinical and counseling psychology programs with an aging specialization; Johnson & Rosich, 1997).…”

Section: The Need For Geropsychology Exposure and Experience Within Cmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The number of psychology doctoral programs offering a specialization focused on older adults ranged from 4% (i.e., clinical geropsychology; Perry & Boccaccini, 2009) to 9% (i.e., clinical and counseling psychology programs with a specialization in gerontology; Ryan & Agresti, 1999) to 14% (i.e., clinical and counseling psychology programs with an aging specialization; Johnson & Rosich, 1997). The number of psychology doctoral programs offering courses related to older adults also varied from a low of 8% (counseling psychology programs; Vacha-Haase, 2004, as cited in Vacha-Haase & Duffy, 2012 to 28% (i.e., clinical psychology programs in the United States; Pachana, Emery, Konnert, Woodhead, & Edelstein, 2010), to a high of 63% (clinical and counseling psychology programs; Johnson & Rosich, 1997). Finally, Lubin, Brady, Thomas, and Whitlock (1986) reported that 50% of clinical psychology and 44% of counseling psychology programs offered courses that included some aspect of geropsychology.…”

Section: The Need For Geropsychology Exposure and Experience Within Counseling Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Justice Training Within Geropsychology

Zucchero

Iwasaki

Lewis

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The Counseling Psychologist

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Counseling psychology is well positioned to address issues of social justice to meet the needs of marginalized groups such as older adults. Given the rapid growth of the senior population and an insufficient number of competent professionals to serve them, it is imperative that counseling psychologists act immediately to develop effective pedagogies to prepare for the future. This article describes four nontraditional pedagogies that help prepare students to work with older adults: (a) service-learning (SL) involving undergraduates who provide community service to seniors; (b) an active learning strategy utilizing a narrative therapy technique, in a multicultural training setting with master's students; (c) a brief, case-based, interprofessional training experience for doctoral students; and (d) a hierarchical supervision model with doctoral and master's students in a community outreach wellness

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“…Researchers have argued that mental health practitioners who counsel older adults should be familiar with the unique life circumstances they face (Agresti, 1992;Gatz, Karel, & Wolkenstein, 1991;Johnson & Rosich, 1997;Myers, 1995;Myers & Blake, 1986;Schwiebert, Myers, & Dice, 2000;Stickle & Onedera, 2006;Zucchero, 1998). The baby boom cohort, which is the next generation moving toward the later years, will face unique challenges and circumstances as they age based on their sociohistorical context (Long, 1990;Taylor & Hartman-Stein, 1995).…”

Section: Unique Challenges Of Midlife and Older Adulthoodmentioning

confidence: 99%