Am J Psychiatry 1976; 133:1313-1315
Copyright © 1976 by American Psychiatric Association
Who gets supervised? An extension of patient selection inequity
RW Burgoyne, S Santini, F Kline and FR Staples
A study of 89 individual psychotherapy patients followed by 17 residents in
a teaching clinic demonstrated that those presented for supervision
significantly differed from the others in being younger, better educated,
and better liked by residents and in having higher incomes and longer term
treatment. The authors discuss the implications of these findings in
relation to the inequity in service time and teaching emphasis that this
selection allows.
