Clinical psychology interns and counseling psychology interns rated the emphasis on various roles and functions at internships and university training programs. Found a relationship between specialty and degree of emphasis on roles. Suggests clinicians are better trained for some roles, such as diagnosing learning disabilities and personality…

Found that 80 percent of psychology programs offer ethics training, but less than half provide a formal, comprehensive learning experience. All but two of the programs that don't offer training reported it was the primary responsibility of the clinical psychology graduate school program. Urges formal training in ethical standards. (Author)

Examined the determinants of the selection decision for applicants to one clinical Doctor of Psychology program and relationships among selection variables and program performance variables. Results and discussion illuminate the determinants of ratings made of applicants based on reading written application materials and determinants of ratings…

Recent graduates from doctoral programs in clinical psychology rated the adequacy of their training. Respondents were relatively satisfied with their training and were most satisfied with traditional skills in therapy and assessment. Results suggest that satisfaction with training and satisfaction with professional work role are not the same.…

Surveyed directors (N=109) of clinical psychology programs to assess their opinions regarding proposed personality evaluation of doctoral applicants. Results showed that 75.3 percent opposed the evaluation based on the applicant's right to privacy and the inadequacies of assessment alternatives. (Author/JAC)

Assessed the effects of peer and authority social pressure on evaluative responses of 44 graduate students in counseling. Subjects were assigned randomly to three research groups. Results indicated that both pressure conditions produced significantly greater distortion (conformity) than controls. Authority pressure was not significantly more…

Surveyed clinical psychology graduate students (N=17) to determine their perceptions of evaluation criteria and to compare these perceptions with criteria actually used. Results showed that 77 percent of the students either did not know the evaluation criteria or thought the evaluation was based on professors' personal biases. (LLL)

Examined the validity of an instrument designed to assess trainees' Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) skills. Results show graduate clinical psychology students with advanced MMPI expertise more accurately described a patient based on his MMPI than did undergraduates. A second experiment documented this sensitivity to changes in…

In this study with 240 introductory psychology students, ten interpretable independent dimensions of satisfaction with life were extracted with six factors that loaded on the PIL and four that loaded on the SONG, supporting Crumbaugh's assertion that the SONG is a complementary scale to the PIL. (Author/SJL)

Studied the incidence of bias related to race and socioeconomic status which could confound the diagnosis of alcoholism. Graduate psychology students made a diagnosis based on videotapes. Results indicated lower socioeconomic class individuals were more often diagnosed correctly for alcoholism, and Blacks were diagnosed alcoholic more often than…

Examined type and amount of training in geropsychology available to students in doctoral programs in clinical and counseling psychology. Very little difference was found between responses of clinical and counseling programs and between this 1984 survey and one conducted in 1975-76. There seems to be a very small increase in training opportunities.…

Questionnaires sent to 153 chiefs of Veterans Administration psychology services requested information on service provision to women veterans. Significant correlations were found between number of services offered routinely in response to requests and state population of female veterans; income of female veteran clients; total number of…

Investigated the relationship between the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 4-3 high-point pair and the Overcontrolled-Hostility (O-H) scale in prisoners, psychology clinic outpatients, and inpatients at a state hospital. Results suggested the O-H scale and the 4-3 high-point pair are correlated and seem to measure the same types of…

Tested four groups (N=491) of male general hospital subjects with the Rey Auditory-Verbal Learning Test to determine differences between alcoholic and depressed subjects (measured by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory). Results showed that alcoholism lowers initial repetition, recall, and recognition scores; depression lowers only the…

Compared the relative performance of 40 patients with a history of alcohol abuse on tasks of short-term semantic and visual memory. Performance on the visual memory tasks was impaired significantly relative to the semantic memory task in a within-subjects analysis of variance. Semantic memory was unimpaired. (Author/ABB)