Graduate psychology students' perceptions of the scientist-practitioner model of training

Aspenson, David O.; Gersh, Tracey L.; Perot, Annette R.; Galassi, John P.; Schroeder, R. Jason; Kerick, Sharon; Bulger, Jane D.; Brooks, Linda

doi:10.1080/09515079308254115

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“…To help students with this decision-making process, Leong and Zachar (1991) developed a scale called the Scientist-Practitioner Inventory (SPI). A series of studies over the past 15 years has found that interests in both scientist and practitioner activities are internally consistent and that scientist and practitioner interests are negatively correlated for graduate students and psychologists, but positively correlated for undergraduates (Aspenson et al, 1993;Leong & Zachar, 1991;Manning, Zachar, Ray, & LoBello, 2006;Zachar & Leong, 2000). Zachar and Leong (2000) showed that these specialty interests predict the actual work behaviors of psychologists and the probable future behaviors of graduate students.…”

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Career Specialty Preferences Among Psychology Majors: Cognitive Processing Styles Associated With Scientist and Practitioner Interests

Leong

Zachar

Conant

et al. 2007

The Career Development Quart

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The authors investigated cognitive processing styles associated with interests in scientist and practitioner activities among a sample of undergraduate psychology majors who planned to attend graduate school. Results indicated that interests in scientist activities were associated with a greater motivation to engage in effortful processing (i.e., need for cognition). Interests in practitioner activities were not correlated with need for cognition. Contrary to theoretical expectations, neither interests in scientist activities nor in practitioner activities were related to ambiguity intolerance (i.e., preference for clear-cut solutions to problems).This study attempted to gain better understanding of career specialty choice in psychology by examining the relationship between cognitive processing styles and career specialty preferences among undergraduate psychology majors. Gelso's (1979) reflections on the scientist and practitioner traditions in psychology served as the theoretical context for the current study.In the tradition of Paul Meehl (1972), Gelso (1979) offered a series of influential reflections on scientist and practitioner interests in psychology. Influential psychologists met in Boulder, Colorado, in 1949, establishing a model of training devoted to training psychologists as scientists and practitioners. Their training recommendations are referred to as the Boulder model. The Boulder model's goal has repeatedly been hindered by the perception among psychologists that there are groups of psychology students whose strong interests in empirical research are associated with a disdain for clinical practice and vice versa (Leong & Zachar, 1991). The perception that the Boulder model advocates unrealistic goals has led to the development of competing models, specifically practitioner programs leading to the Doctor of Psychology degree, and the clinical scientist model, which puts a primary emphasis on research (McFall, 1991;Peterson, 1976).

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Section: Career Specialty Choice In Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Career Specialty Preferences Among Psychology Majors: Cognitive Processing Styles Associated With Scientist and Practitioner Interests

Leong

Zachar

Conant

et al. 2007

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“…After analyzing the qualitative and quantitative data separately, the results were used to help answer the three research questions. Aspenson et al (1993), Baker and Siryk (1986), Blustein, Phillips, Jobin-Davis, Finkelberg, and Rourke (1997), Gaston and Marmar (1989), and Guernina (1998) are other examples of studies that used concurrent nested designs.…”

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Mixed methods research designs in counseling psychology.

Hanson

Creswell

Clark

et al. 2005

Journal of Counseling Psychology

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“…During 1949 it was recommended that training programmes be structured according to a scientist-practitioner model, in which research and application of theory would be equally important (Aspenson & Gersh, 1993;Benishek, 1998;Stoltenberg, Pace, Kashubeck-West, Biever, Patterson & Welsch, 2000). The professional-practitioner model was suggested as an alternative training model to the scientist-practitioner model.…”

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The Development of Counsellor Identity — A Visual Expression

Preez

Roos

2008

South African Journal of Psychology

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The diversity of the South African population requires counsellors who are able to promote the mental health of all persons who express a need for this service. The newly introduced registration category of registered counsellors aims to provide mental health services on a primary level; yet the professional identity of registered counsellors is not well established. This is reflected in the lack of an integrated and standardised national training policy for the BPsych programme as well as a disregard by potential employers of graduates of this programme, as seen in the limited number of appropriate job advertisements and placements in the media. In this study we explore the development of counsellor identity by means of the visual presentations participants produced regarding their development. The social constructionist notion of the self as being composed of different selves is used as the theoretical background for this qualitative investigation. An analysis of the visual presentations revealed that counsellors developed a capacity for experiences of uncertainty, increased self-knowledge and ability to reflect on themselves. They experienced personal growth as part of their identity development-in-process. Visual material as a form of expression makes it possible to challenge some of the limitations of verbal text to construct knowledge and facilitates thinking about those elements of the social world which cannot be expressed in talk.

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Graduate psychology students' perceptions of the scientist-practitioner model of training

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

Career Specialty Preferences Among Psychology Majors: Cognitive Processing Styles Associated With Scientist and Practitioner Interests

Career Specialty Preferences Among Psychology Majors: Cognitive Processing Styles Associated With Scientist and Practitioner Interests

Mixed methods research designs in counseling psychology.

The Development of Counsellor Identity — A Visual Expression

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