Mentoring in Clinical Geropsychology: Across the Stages of Professional Development.
Projected growth in demand for clinical geropsychologists will require expanding the number of qualified geropsychology mentors at all stages of professional development. This special section provides information on mentoring from expert geropsychology mentors who offer their perspectives, and summarize relevant research, on mentoring graduate students, interns and postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and members of special populations. The present paper provides an introduction to the special section by establishing the need for increased mentoring within clinical geropsychology, presenting results of a survey of mentoring practices and needs, and discussing ways in which the field is responding to the challenge.
Graduate Student, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.
Jennifer A
JA
Zimmerman
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, PO Box 6040, Morgantown, WV 26506-6040.
Amy
A
Fiske
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0348.
Forrest
F
Scogin
clinical geropsychology; mentoring; professional development