“It’s just like a waiting room”: The lived experiences of psychology students seeking professional training programme admission in South Africa

Duiker, Adeline; Booysen, Duane D

Title: “It’s just like a waiting room”: The lived experiences of psychology students seeking professional training programme admission in South Africa
Creator: Duiker, Adeline
Creator: Booysen, Duane D
Subject: To be catalogued
Date Issued: 2022
Date: 2022
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454068
Identifier: vital:75307
Identifier: xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/14330237.2022.2075620"
Description: We aimed to explore the lived experiences of South African psychology students of professional training opportunities and career prospects. Informants were eight psychology Honours students attending a South African public university. Interpretive phenomenological analysis of the data yielded four themes recurrent in most participant’s experiences: (i) personal capacity development; (ii) feeling stuck with nothing; (iii) sense of disillusionment and uncertainty; and (iv) low career prospects. The students considered psychology studies beneficial to their personal growth although they were uncertain about their futures, accessing professional training programs, and employment in the field. The uncertainty to access professional training contributes to a sense of unemployability in the South African mental health field.
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Format: 1 online resource (5 pages)
Format: pdf
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Language: English
Relation: Journal of Psychology in Africa
Relation: Duiker, A. and Booysen, D.D., 2022. “It’s just like a waiting room”: The lived experiences of psychology students seeking professional training programme admission in South Africa. Journal of Psychology in Africa, 32(3), pp.298-302
Relation: Journal of Psychology in Africa volume 32 number 3 p. 298 2022 1815-5626
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