Clinical Psychology Postgraduate Training: Meeting the Shortfall

Abstract

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.

Citation

Ashcroft, J.J. and Turpin, G. (1994), "Clinical Psychology Postgraduate Training: Meeting the Shortfall", Health Manpower Management, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 35-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/09552069410060085