Validating the Curriculum  

Oleh:

Bradley, Benjamin

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Psychology and Experience, page 186-204.
Topik: Curriculum; Psychology; Experience
Fulltext: Validating the Curriculum.pdf (332.11KB)

Isi artikel

A colleague and I are currently in the midst of an interview-study which examines the experiences of people who have just made their first steps into the workforce after graduating in psychology. 1 Already, concerns are emerging. The strongest is the graduates’ sense of being seriously underprepared for the challenges of working as a psychologist. For example: ‘At the end of my honours year I really wasn’t qualified to do anything much’ (#6). ‘I really found that in my first three years ... it was so theoretical, I didn’t feel like there was anything practical whatsoever, which is ... what psychology is all about, you know, the hands on dealing with people kind of thing’ (#7). Another says: ‘The psychology course ... really didn’t provide me with any sort of skills that I could see could be useful to me in the workplace’ (#3). A woman four weeks into a job with a govern- ment-run Employee Assistance Programme illustrates the point: ‘In terms of you know doing the vocational assessments and actually being able to conduct those assessments and report them, I haven’t done anything like that in my course so, no, my course didn’t prepare me to do that’ (#6). Not surprisingly therefore: ‘People seeing clients for the first time are petrified, because it’s all very well in theory but how do you actually do that when you’ve got someone sitting across from you and they’re telling you that they’re suicidal, you’re the psychologist, you’re supposed to deal with it?’ (#8). The graduates are not just concerned about themselves. They worry about their clients: ‘And that worries me, that really worries me, that people are coming out after four years, and sure you go on and do supervised practice for two years, but what about your poor clients that you see in those two years, while you’re practising on them?’

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali