Perceived professional development of Chinese psychotherapy trainees: a pilot study

For more than 30 years counselling and psychotherapy services in China have progressed rapidly. Currently, various Chinese universities, hospitals, official mental health centres, and private mental health service organizations provide psychotherapy training programs. However, little is known about...

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Published inResearch in psychotherapy (Milano). Vol. 25; no. 2
Main Authors Zhang, Ying, Shi, Lili, Wei, Jing, Hartmann , Armin, Leonhart, Rainer, Bassler, Markus, Fritzsche, Kurt
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 01.08.2022
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China
psychotherapy trainees’ perceived development
Psychotherapy training
SPRISTAD project
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Summary:For more than 30 years counselling and psychotherapy services in China have progressed rapidly. Currently, various Chinese universities, hospitals, official mental health centres, and private mental health service organizations provide psychotherapy training programs. However, little is known about Chinese psychotherapy trainees and their development. This pilot study investigated the characteristics and perceived professional development of 20 Chinese trainees during and after an advanced training program for psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, which is a collaboration project between Peking Union Medical College Hospital and the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy from the University Medical Center Freiburg in Germany. Trainees completed questionnaires from the SPRISTAD (Society for Psychotherapy Research Interest Section on Therapist Training and Development) study at the beginning (T1), at the end (T2), and one year after finishing the program (T3). Seventeen of the twenty participants were clinicians. Trainees reported a prominent rise of Currently Experienced Growth throughout the training period, which nearly dropped to the baseline level after the training, although Retrospective Career Development showed a trend of an overall increase. Both ‘experience in therapy with patients’ and ‘participation in courses or seminars’ were the most important positively perceived sources of influence on trainees’ development. This implies the importance of continuous psychotherapy training for the development of therapists during their career. Future research with a larger sample size should also assess trainees’ development from the viewpoint of trainers, supervisors, and patients.
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Citation: Zhang, Y., Shi, L., Wei, J., Hartmann, A., Leonhart, R., Bassler, M., & Fritzsche, K. (2022). Perceived professional development of Chinese psychotherapy trainees: a pilot study. Research in Psychotherapy: Psychopathology, Process and Outcome, 25(2), 229-238. doi
Participants consent for publication: participants’ consent for publication was obtained.
Conflict of interest: the authors declare no potential conflict of interest.
Ethics approval: the procedures of this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013. The study was approved by the institutional review board of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, registered under the number ZS-1645 and the institutional review board of the University of Freiburg, registered under the number 155/18.
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Contributors: YZ finished the writing of the manuscript; LLS interpreted the data; JW, KF and MB devised this study; AH and RL analysed the data and provided critical revision for the manuscript. All the authors contributed to and approved the final manuscript.
Data availability statement: data are available on reasonable request. Please contact the corresponding author if data are required.
ISSN:2499-7552
2239-8031
DOI:10.4081/ripppo.2022.580