Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zahniser, Evan
• Rupert, Patricia A.
• Dorociak, Katherine E.
• Roberts, Michael C

Titel

Self-Care in Clinical Psychology Graduate Training

Ist Teil von

• Training and education in professional psychology, 2017-11, Vol.11 (4), p.283-289

Ort / Verlag

Educational Publishing Foundation

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Quelle

PsycARTICLES (APA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Following a trend in the professional psychology literature, self-care has begun to receive increasing attention at the psychology graduate training level. A limited body of research has supported the value of self-care for the wellbeing of psychology trainees, and has suggested that graduate programs may play an important role in promoting self-care. The present research took a comprehensive approach to studying self-care among a sample of 358 doctoral students recruited from APA-accredited clinical psychology programs. Results demonstrated that self-care is associated with both greater personal wellbeing and better self-reported progress through graduate training, and that self-care can also serve as a buffer against the harmful effects of stress inherent to graduate training in psychology. Two particularly important aspects of self-care for psychology graduate students appeared to be building professional support systems and maintaining awareness of one's needs and reactions to stressors. Results also indicated that program culture related to student self-care, such that students who perceived greater emphasis on self-care within their programs reported engaging in more self-care. Finally, both quantitative and qualitative results suggested that graduate training programs can better promote self-care among students in several ways. Recommendations for graduate training programs include taking concrete action steps to encourage self-care among students, such as building formal education on self-care into existing coursework, offering targeted workshops or seminars, and encouraging faculty to provide effective models of self-care, with the ultimate goal of building a "culture" that values and promotes self-care as an essential component of training in psychology.