Journal article
Cultivating Student Leadership in Professional Psychology
Training and education in professional psychology, v 10(1), pp 29-36
01 Feb 2016
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Abstract
Professional psychology involves comprehensive training incorporating coursework, clinical experience, research, teaching, and professional development. One critical hut often overlooked part of professional development is leadership experience. Developing leadership skills is likely to enhance psychology students' training and professional competence and serve to strengthen the profession as a whole. In this article, we discuss the concept of leadership with a particular focus on the role of leadership and its need in psychology. We also highlight important issues in student leadership, such as professional mentoring and multicultural diversity. We then offer recommendations to enhance student leadership development in professional psychology, including illustrative examples of how these recommendations can take place across graduate, internship, and postdoctoral settings and how leadership outcomes may he measured. Finally, we employ a case study to illustrate our recommendations in the context of a professional organization. Recommendations are broad in scope and may also be utilized to foster student leadership in the context of other psychology subdisciplines (e.g., experimental training programs). Our position is informed by the belief that it is important to conceptualize psychology students as developing leaders for the next generation of socially responsible, service-oriented psychologists.
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- Title
- Cultivating Student Leadership in Professional Psychology
- Creators
- Lauren Kois (Corresponding Author) - John Jay College of Criminal JusticeChristopher King - Drexel UniversityCasey LaDuke - Drexel UniversityAlana Cook - Simon Fraser University
- Publication Details
- Training and education in professional psychology, v 10(1), pp 29-36
- Publisher
- Educational Publishing Foundation-American Psychological Assoc
- Number of pages
- 8
- Grant note
- American Psychology-Law Society (American Psychological Association Division 41)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences (Psychology)
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000369596600005
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84957965360
- Other Identifier
- 991019173631604721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Educational