How does sleep impact professional competence and medical errors?

How much do factors, such as sleep, stress, and professional burnout affect a healthcare professional's ability to provide competent care? Is there a connection between personal wellness and patient care? Do medical errors rise when a physician's or psychologist's well-being plummet? These questions are explored in our most recent research initiative.

What makes continuing education effective or ineffective for psychologists?

What contributes to learning? Does the "spray and pray" method really work (spray information at students and pray something sticks)? How important are experiential class activities? What enables psychologists to translate the material they learn in a workshop into their professional work with their clients?

What competencies are important for psychologists who work with trans and gender diverse clients in sex and relationship counseling?

What knowledge, skills, and attitudes are critical for psychologists to provide competent sex and relationship counseling to trans and gender diverse clients? What therapeutic factors lead to a positive working alliance between psychologists and trans and gender diverse clients? What have been the experiences of trans and gender diverse clients in sex and relationship counseling?

What competencies are important for psychologists who conduct suicide risk assessments with culturally diverse clients?

Although general suicide risk assessment competencies exist, what special considerations exist when assessing risk among clients from diverse cultural backgrounds? What are the critical questions psychologists must ask?

What can we learn from other countries in relation to how  psychologists maintain their professional competence?

Psychologists in Turkey, Ontario, and Austrialia approach continuing professional development in some important fundamental ways that differ from the ways psychologists in the U.S.A. typically approach lifelong learning and continuing professional development. What approaches to learning are associated with greater counselor self-efficacy, professional competence, and clinical outcomes?

Jennifer M. Taylor, Ph.D.
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