Data Show Current State of Psychotherapy Training

Noting that "psychotherapy skills are at the core of clinical psychiatry," and with several forms of psychotherapy now a mandated focus of training in psychiatry residency programs, researchers conducted a nationwide survey of U.S. general-psychiatry training directors about their methods of didactic presentation, supervised clinical experience, and numbers of patients treated with the models of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and supportive therapy. Describing their findings in the new issue of Academic Psychiatry, Donna M. Sudak, M.D., and David A. Goldberg, M.D., reported a wide variation in psychotherapy education. "Psychodynamic training is the most robust,...

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Published By: Psychiatric News - 3 days ago