Decisions, Decisions: How Professional Affiliation Shapes Mental Health Trainees' Clinical Judgments and Approach to Care Público
Askew, Rachel Ann (2010)
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Abstract
Abstract
Decisions, Decisions: How Professional Affiliation Shapes Mental
Health
Trainees' Clinical Judgments and Approach to Care
By Rachel A. Askew
This mixed-methods study compares how mental health trainees from
various
professional disciplines approach, diagnose and treat their
patients or clients, paying
particular attention to differences that arise based on a trainee's
professional affiliation
and theoretical orientations. The study focuses on advanced
clinical trainees enrolled in
three training programs - the top professional training programs in
psychiatry, clinical
psychology, and social work in Georgia. In order to assess the
amount and source of
variation in clinical decisions, I asked trainees to evaluate an
identical written case study
of a patient manifesting symptoms of anxiety and depression. In
order to gauge trainees'
views of their work and general approach to working with patients I
concurrently
conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with a subset of
trainees from each of the
professional programs. Results indicate that trainees' diagnostic-
and treatment-related
judgments and the way they work with patients reflect neither full
uniformity nor
complete divergence. Trainees share broad ideas regarding diagnosis
and treatment yet
diverge in their application of these ideas based on professional
affiliation and preferred
theoretical orientations to care. This study suggests that
professional beliefs and practices
will never be homogenous in an organizational field that contains
multiple disciplines
competing for clients.
Decisions, Decisions: How Professional Affiliation Shapes Mental
Health
Trainees' Clinical Judgments and Approach to Care
By
Rachel A. Askew
M.A., Rutgers University, 2000
Advisor: Timothy J. Dowd, Ph.D.
A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the
James T. Laney School of Graduate Studies of Emory University
in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
in
Sociology
2010
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction
1
Chapter 2: Theoretical Framework and Background
14
Chapter 3: Research Methodology
63
Chapter 4: Trainees' Diagnostic Decisions and Use of Diagnosis in
Clinical
122
Work
Chapter 5: Trainees' Treatment Decisions and Approach to Care
167
Chapter 6: Conclusion
261
Bibliography
274
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