Alessi Edward J, Dillon Frank R, Kim Hillary Mi-Sung
a School of Social Work, Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey , Newark , NJ , USA.
b Division of Counseling Psychology , University at Albany, State University of New York , Albany , NY , USA.
Psychother Res. 2016 Jul;26(4):446-58. doi: 10.1080/10503307.2015.1026422. Epub 2015 Apr 13.
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of training in sexual minority issues, professional identification, and gender on attitudes toward lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals, affirmative counseling self-efficacy, and beliefs about affirmative practice among mental health practitioners in the USA.
We used the Internet to recruit a nationwide sample of 443 heterosexual psychologists (n = 270), clinical social workers (n = 110), and marriage and family therapists (n = 63) residing in the USA.
When controlling for years of practice experience and age, results from structural equation modeling analysis showed that training was associated with more affirmative attitudes, higher levels of affirmative counseling self-efficacy, and more positive beliefs. Female therapists reported more affirmative attitudes and higher levels of affirmative counseling self-efficacy than male therapists. Professional identification did not predict any criterion variables, when controlling for years of practice experience and age.
Findings suggest that it will be important for educational and training initiatives to consider the effect of gender role socialization on attitudes and affirmative counseling self-efficacy, especially among beginning male therapists.
本研究旨在探讨性少数群体问题培训、职业认同和性别对美国心理健康从业者对女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋者的态度、肯定性咨询自我效能感以及对肯定性实践的信念的影响。
我们利用互联网招募了居住在美国的443名异性恋心理学家（n = 270）、临床社会工作者（n = 110）和婚姻与家庭治疗师（n = 63）的全国性样本。
在控制执业年限和年龄后，结构方程模型分析结果显示，培训与更肯定的态度、更高水平的肯定性咨询自我效能感以及更积极的信念相关。女性治疗师比男性治疗师报告出更肯定的态度和更高水平的肯定性咨询自我效能感。在控制执业年限和年龄后，职业认同并未预测任何标准变量。
研究结果表明，教育和培训举措考虑性别角色社会化对态度和肯定性咨询自我效能感的影响非常重要，尤其是在初入行的男性治疗师中。
