Canadian Psychology

A Canadian psychologist’s primer to telehealth practice.
Mental health-related concerns are a frequently cited reason for health service attendance throughout Canada. Despite the prevalence, numerous barriers limit consistent attendance for in-person care, especially among those living in rural and northern areas of Canadian provinces and territories. The expansion of telehealth has allowed psychologists to reach these historically underserved Canadians. While adoption has been rapid in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, psychologists remain underprepared for the use of technology-delivered practices. Fragmentation of telehealth-related information, combined with unique or absent guidance across the different provincial and territorial jurisdictions, creates further challenge for those seeking evidence-informed information to guide their work. To assist psychologists, the current discussion acts as an applied primer for ethical and legal considerations when practicing psychology via telehealth throughout Canada. Licensure and jurisdiction considerations, methods of establishing patient appropriateness, informed consent processes, safety planning, and data security are outlined. Practice across province/territory, as well as practice to patients travelling outside of Canada, is also reviewed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Outils de mesure des attitudes à l’égard des personnes en situation de handicap : Une revue systématique de la littérature.
In our society, persons with disabilities are often subject to stereotyping and they may give rise to feelings of fear and rejection. These reactions refer to attitudes, that is, the more or less positive evaluations of an object (Eagly & Chaiken, 1993). Scientific literature has been greatly interested in attitudes—toward persons with disabilities (Breen, 2018; Palad et al., 2016) and the education of students with disabilities (Desombre et al., 2019; Donath et al., 2023)—and the extent to which those attitudes are likely to predict inclusive behaviours (Ajzen, 1991). This purpose of this article is to take stock of the tools available to measure explicit attitudes toward persons with disabilities in various contexts. This systematic literature review was carried out using the Prisma method and the databases of APA PsycInfo, APA PsycArticles and the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection; it groups together articles published in French and in English between January 2000 and June 2021. In total, 77 articles out of 837 were selected for review. The analysis of these articles allowed us to identify 22 tools to measure attitudes toward persons with disabilities. Comparisons between these tools are their uses are discussed in this article. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Becoming a culturally responsive and socially just clinical supervisor.
Clinical supervisors must learn to attend to and address a breadth of cultural, diversity and social justice factors and dynamics when providing supervision. Developing these abilities does not occur automatically; rather, training in clinical supervision has a significant impact on supervisors’ development. Unfortunately, there is relatively limited research on how supervisors develop these same ways of being and working. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how counselling psychology doctoral students understand their experiences of becoming culturally responsive and socially just clinical supervisors. Findings from this study detail the developmental experiences of novice supervisors and highlight training needs, educational interventions, progression of competencies and experiences with counselling supervisees and supervisors-of-supervision. Implications for theories of supervisor development and approaches in graduate training programmes are discussed along side of calls to more robustly integrate culturally responsive and socially just training and approaches throughout the field of clinical supervision. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Psychological study of the personality structure in individuals with neurotic and neurosis-like disorders: A systematic review.
The shift from categorical to dimensional diagnosis in neurotic disorders emphasises the importance of studying personality in individuals with these conditions. The emergence of a generalised neurotic syndrome highlights the need for personality structure assessment and trait evaluation. The purpose of the study is to explore specific personality traits that require special attention in neurotic spectrum disorders and focus on the methods and instruments for measuring these traits. The primary approach utilised to address this issue entails conducting a comprehensive review and analysis of 40 recent works of literature pertaining to the personality structure of individuals coping with neurotic disorders. The article provides an overview of 21 studies published over the past 5 years and provides guidance, methods, and/or tools for measuring personality traits in neurotic spectrum diseases. The analysis of the studies allowed summarising current views on these disorders, including their causes, risk factors, and consequences, and identifying approaches to their psychodiagnosis and psychometrics within the context of the dimensional model of diagnosing mental disorders. It also proved that, considering the detrimental consequences of neurotic spectrum disorders, investigating the personality structure of patients suffering from these disorders can have substantial value not only in terms of diagnosing each individual patient but also in the broader context of public health. The materials of the article are of practical value for the diagnosis of neurotic and neurosis-like disorders, associated comorbidities, their treatment, and prevention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
Supporting the mental health of postsecondary student-athletes: Implications from literature for the Canadian context.
Canadian postsecondary athletics can have a positive impact on the mental health of student-athletes, yet a significant proportion of student-athletes experience mental health issues. Student-athletes encounter unique stressors, which can contribute to high prevalence rates of mental distress. Moreover, in comparison to nonathletes, student-athletes are less likely to seek mental health support due to barriers like stigma. Research on this topic has predominantly focused on the United States, limiting the understanding of the Canadian context. To address these gaps, this article critically reviewed the literature on student-athletes’ mental health, including articles from the Canadian context as well as transferable ideas from articles in the U.S. context. The findings of the review indicated key barriers, facilitators, interventions, and resources to help inform the practice of mental health practitioners in Canada working with postsecondary student-athletes. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
L’expérience de Rosenhan, 50 ans plus tard.
Rosenhan’s experiment, published in the journal Science 50 years ago, has had many echoes in the world of psychiatry and psychology over the years. As soon as Rosenhan’s planned admission of false patients to psychiatric hospitals came to light, it brought the validity of psychiatric diagnosis into disrepute. The matter would have ended there had it not been for Susannah Cahalan’s journalistic investigation (2019), which raised serious doubts about what really happened. This text proposes to review the history of the famous experiment in the light of Cahalan’s revelations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)
The imperative to recruit and retain psychologists in Canadian hospitals: Challenges and proposed solutions.
In this review and commentary, the challenges hospitals face with recruitment and retention of psychologists are examined. The critical need to address this issue is highlighted, outlining the unique and essential value psychologists, as specialists, bring to public health care settings. Potential solutions to sustain and strengthen psychology’s presence within Canadian hospitals are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)

Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne - Vol 65, Iss 4