Zimmerman Jennifer A, Fiske Amy, Scogin Forrest
Graduate Student, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, West Virginia University, PO Box 6040, Morgantown, WV 26506-6040.
Educ Gerontol. 2011;37(5):355-369. doi: 10.1080/03601277.2011.553556.
Projected growth in demand for clinical geropsychologists will require expanding the number of qualified geropsychology mentors at all stages of professional development. This special section provides information on mentoring from expert geropsychology mentors who offer their perspectives, and summarize relevant research, on mentoring graduate students, interns and postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty and members of special populations. The present paper provides an introduction to the special section by establishing the need for increased mentoring within clinical geropsychology, presenting results of a survey of mentoring practices and needs, and discussing ways in which the field is responding to the challenge.
预计临床老年心理学家的需求增长将要求在专业发展的各个阶段增加合格的老年心理学导师数量。本专题提供了来自专家老年心理学导师的指导信息，他们就指导研究生、实习生和博士后、初级教员以及特殊人群成员提供了自己的观点，并总结了相关研究。本文通过确立临床老年心理学领域增加指导的必要性、介绍一项关于指导实践和需求的调查结果以及讨论该领域应对这一挑战的方式，对本专题进行了介绍。
