Clinical psychology postgraduate training. Meeting the shortfall.
NHS targets for training clinical psychologists have not been met. Unless training resources are increased there will continue to be a shortfall in service provision. In order to ascertain those areas where training resources are most needed, a postal questionnaire survey of all British clinical psychology training courses was conducted. There was a 73 per cent response rate. Results showed that major areas of need are: (1) increased recruitment of course staff whose major responsibility is training, rather than an over reliance on clinical psychologists who have major NHS responsibilities; (2) greater representation of specialist areas; some priority services such as work with older adults or people with learning disabilities are under-represented; and (3) more equitable pay--not all university courses offer salaries on clinical scales.
Ashcroft
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Whitegate Drive Health Centre, Blackpool, UK.
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D002321:Career Choice; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate; D010560:Personnel Selection; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D011586:Psychology, Clinical / Q000191:economics / Q000193:education; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom; D000078329:Workforce