Public psychiatrists' perceptions of changes over the past five years

This study examines which issues public psychiatrists perceive as having most impacted their careers over the past five years and whether this impact was differentially experienced by staff psychiatrists and medical directors. The authors sent a questionnaire to all members of the American Associati...

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Published in:Community mental health journal 2004-10, Vol.40 (5), p.487-494
Main Author: RANZ, Jules
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Administrative Personnel
Advocacy
Biological and medical sciences
Career Mobility
Careers
Changes
Community mental health services
Community Mental Health Services - manpower
Community Mental Health Services - trends
Directors
Female
Health Care Surveys
Health staff related problems. Vocational training
Humans
Information systems
Job Satisfaction
Male
Medical sciences
Mental health
Middle Aged
Online gambling
Perceptions
Physician's Role
Psychiatrists
Psychiatry - manpower
Psychiatry - trends
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Questionnaires
Response rates
Roles
Salaries and Fringe Benefits - statistics & numerical data
Social psychiatry. Ethnopsychiatry
State budgets
USA
White people
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Summary:This study examines which issues public psychiatrists perceive as having most impacted their careers over the past five years and whether this impact was differentially experienced by staff psychiatrists and medical directors. The authors sent a questionnaire to all members of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists (AACP) in clinical practice for at least 5 years. Surprisingly, public psychiatrists report that the impact of recent changes have been primarily positive, except in the domain of economic developments. Both program and agency medical directors report experiencing about the same amount of change, though significantly more positive overall impact, compared to staff psychiatrists. This finding should encourage psychiatrists to become program medical directors, a feasible next step for many staff psychiatrists.
ISSN:0010-3853
1573-2789
DOI:10.1023/B:COMH.0000040661.51094.74