Book Description
The current study addressed the relation between programmatic self-care emphasis, selfcare utilization, and quality-of-life among 264 doctoral level clinical psychology graduate students. Specifically, this study proposed that there would be a relation between programmatic self-care emphasis and graduate trainee quality-of-life and this would be mediated by graduate trainee self-care utilization. The test for mediation as outlined by Baron and Kenny (1986) was supported by the survey data as programmatic self-care emphasis was a positive predictor of quality-of-life and was partially mediated by selfcare utilization. These results demonstrated a significant direct and indirect effect of programmatic emphasis of self-care on graduate trainee quality-of-life and graduate trainee use of self-care strategies. As a result, suggestions for individual and systemic changes to promote a culture of self-care within graduate training in clinical psychology are discussed.