Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX 76204-5470, USA.
J Clin Psychol. 2013 Feb;69(2):172-81. doi: 10.1002/jclp.21956. Epub 2012 Dec 20.
Despite numerous calls to the discipline, attention to poverty and social class remains minimal in psychology even though most human experience is significantly affected by social ranking. As a result, educators lack models for training in the context of poverty. Recent and concerted efforts to define and implement competency-based models for the practice of professional psychology have resulted in the creation of Competency Benchmarks (American Psychological Association, 2011). Here, these Competency Benchmarks frame the integration of best practices in working with poor and working-class clients with what we know about what constitutes good training. The result is a competency-based approach for those who are training psychologists-to-be to work effectively with economically challenged clients.
尽管多次呼吁关注贫困和社会阶层问题，但心理学界对其仍重视不足，尽管大多数人的生活经历都受到社会地位的显著影响。因此，教育工作者缺乏在贫困环境中进行培训的模式。最近，人们一致努力为专业心理学实践定义和实施基于能力的模式，从而制定了能力基准（美国心理学会，2011）。在这里，这些能力基准将与贫困和工人阶级客户合作的最佳实践与我们对良好培训的理解结合起来。对于那些正在培训未来心理学家的人来说，这是一种基于能力的方法，可以帮助他们有效地与经济困难的客户合作。
