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The subjects were a group of first-year residents in psychiatry. The therapeutic ideologies of the residents were serially measured using the questionnaire developed by Strauss. Over the course of the first year of training these residents increased their belief in sociotherapy, decreased their belief in psychotherapy, and experienced no change in their level of belief in somatotherapy. The results are discussed as they relate to the specific training program and to the problems of program evaluation in postgraduate psychiatric training.
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At the time of this study, both were at the Henry Phipps Psychiatric Clinic.
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Willmuth, L.R., Spinner, N. Changing Therapeutic Ideologies: First-Year Psychiatric Residents. Acad Psychiatry 2, 178–183 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03399709
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