Larez Natalie A, Sharkey Jill D
Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2021 Nov 1;12:745368. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.745368. eCollection 2021.
As the field of psychology continues to make efforts to diversify the field, training programs must adapt to include the needs of diverse students. Universities in the United States mirror middle-class norms and values, which implies that students are expected to separate from familial roles and focus on their personal growth. This conflicts with core values and intentions of students from collectivist cultures. Although psychology trainees are obligated to adhere to professional ethical standards, a growing number of psychology trainees from collectivistic cultures need support to manage role conflict within potentially ambiguous standards regarding how to care for family and community members. This need is further complicated when training programs consider the lack of equitable access to mental health care resources in communities where their psychology trainees come from. In this paper, we engage in ethical decision making to address two scenarios representing role conflict between training program expectations and collectivist community and familial obligations. Through this exercise we develop and propose a Decision-Making Model for Addressing Role Conflict for Psychology Trainees. This conceptual model details a novel framework to assist psychology trainees when addressing the mental health of family and community while also providing guidance to help graduate training programs proactively equip their students with the skills and ethical framework they need to balance role conflicts such as when family and community members desire and need mental health support.
随着心理学领域不断努力实现多元化，培训项目必须做出调整，以满足不同学生的需求。美国的大学反映了中产阶级的规范和价值观，这意味着学生们被期望脱离家庭角色，专注于个人成长。这与来自集体主义文化的学生的核心价值观和意图相冲突。尽管心理学实习生有义务遵守职业道德标准，但越来越多来自集体主义文化的心理学实习生需要支持，以应对在如何照顾家人和社区成员方面可能存在模糊标准下的角色冲突。当培训项目考虑到其心理学实习生所在社区缺乏公平获取心理健康护理资源的情况时，这种需求就更加复杂了。在本文中，我们进行道德决策，以解决两种情景，这两种情景代表了培训项目期望与集体主义社区及家庭义务之间的角色冲突。通过这个过程，我们开发并提出了一个针对心理学实习生解决角色冲突的决策模型。这个概念模型详细阐述了一个新颖的框架，以帮助心理学实习生在关注家庭和社区心理健康时提供指导，同时也为研究生培训项目提供指导，帮助它们积极地为学生提供所需的技能和道德框架，以平衡诸如家人和社区成员渴望并需要心理健康支持时的角色冲突。
