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Supervising and supporting trainees with disabilities in the Veterans Administration Healthcare System: An overlooked but critical need and opportunity.

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Trainees with disabilities are chronically underrepresented in psychology and face many barriers throughout their training. Directors of Clinical Training and supervisors within the Veterans Administration Healthcare System (VAHCS), one of… Click to show full abstract

Trainees with disabilities are chronically underrepresented in psychology and face many barriers throughout their training. Directors of Clinical Training and supervisors within the Veterans Administration Healthcare System (VAHCS), one of the largest employers of trainees with disabilities, have a unique opportunity to address this area of critical need. However, they must first understand the barriers facing psychology trainees with disabilities in VAHCS settings, including discrimination in trainee selection, barriers to obtaining reasonable accommodations, and attitudinal and cultural barriers. In this article, we illustrate how those barriers may present in VAHCS settings specifically and provide suggestions and frameworks for how the VAHCS can create accessible, disability-affirmative training environments in which trainees can truly thrive. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

Keywords: trainees disabilities; veterans administration; healthcare system; administration healthcare; critical need; psychology

Journal Title: Psychological services
Year Published: 2022

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