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Becoming a competent clinician: Basic competencies in intervention
Author(s) -
Spruill Jean,
Rozensky Ronald H.,
Stigall Tommy T.,
Vasquez Melba,
Bingham Rosie Phillips,
Olvey Cindy De Vaney
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20011
Subject(s) - credentialing , competence (human resources) , psychology , intervention (counseling) , medical education , psychological intervention , school psychology , psychotherapist , applied psychology , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry
Abstract This article summarizes the results from the Intervention Work Group of the Competencies Conference: Future Directions in Education and Credentialing in Professional Psychology . The generic charge presented to the Intervention Work Group was “to address issues related to interventions.” The Intervention Work Group identified four competency components of knowledge, skills, and abilities: (a) foundational competencies; (b) intervention planning; (c) intervention implementation; and (d) intervention evaluation competencies. A fifth component that included “practice management” was labeled as “others.” Each component is discussed, including competencies that were deemed an essential knowledge, skill, and/or value. A discussion of training for intervention competence and assessing that intervention competence is included. Future directions for the science and practice of psychology in the intervention arena are summarized. This is one of a series of articles published in this issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychology . Several other articles that resulted from the Competencies Conference will appear in Professional Psychology: Research and Practice and The Counseling Psychologist . © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol.