2015; doi: 10.1007/s10591-015-9351-9.
Development of the 'mentorship in clinical training scale' (micts).
Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal
Anne M Prouty, Karen B Helmeke, Judith Fischer
UIID-EM: 116
Bookshelf ID: 2015-36324-001 DOI: 10.1007/s10591-015-9351-9
Abstract
Using an online survey, the researchers examined new family therapists’ experiences of four types of professional mentoring during their most recently completed family therapy training programs. The sample of 223 was mostly white, North American, female, and trained in master’s level graduate programs within the United States. Mentorship experiences were assessed with a new scale of quantitative items aimed to represent the four most common types of mentorship: psychosocial mentorship, career mentorship, clinical mentorship, and research mentorship. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses identified and supported a four-factor model of mentorship and an assessment scale of 26 items. Characteristics of the students, their mentors, and the programs, as well as the four mentoring factors were used in structural equation modeling to predict student satisfaction with their primary mentoring relationships. Suggestions are made for future research using the “Mentorship in Clinical Training Scale” (MiCTS). In addition, the MiCTS can be useful for measuring student and faculty outcomes with respect to training programs’ mentorship goals. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved). (journal abstract)
Keywords: Academic mentorship; Career mentorship; Clinical supervision; Family therapy training; Graduate school training; Mental healthcare provider mentorship; Mentorship satisfaction; Program outcome measurement; Psychosocial mentorship; Research mentorship; No terms assigned
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