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Assessing master's level social work students' attitudes and knowledge of pychotropic medication and attitudes about people with serious mental illness following a classroom intervention

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dc.contributor.authorO'Day, Catherine, author
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, George, advisor
dc.contributor.authorBuchan, Victoria, advisor
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T20:12:28Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T20:12:28Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.description.abstractAttitudes towards people with serious mental illness influence the treatment they receive and decisions of policymakers. Social workers have become the largest group of mental health providers in the United States. Therefore, it is important to assess attitudes of social work students who will likely work with people with serious mental illness during their career. Masters level social work students enrolled in a foundation practice course and a concentration course participated in a classroom intervention that provided exposure to people with serious mental illness, explored the use of psychotropic medication, and provided the opportunity to practice assessments with standardized clients. A control group of students enrolled in alternative sections of the same course participated in order to determine if the intervention affected attitude and knowledge change. Three instruments were used in the pre and posttests. Two instruments were used to measure attitudes. The Attitude to Mental Illness scale (Singh, Baxter, Standen, & Duggan, 1998) measured attitudes to people with mental illness. The Attitudes toward Psychotropic Medication scale (Bentley, Farmer, & Phillips, 1991) measured attitudes toward the use of psychotropic medication. In order to measure knowledge about psychotropic medication, the Knowledge Index on Psychotropic Medication questionnaire (Bentley, Fanner & Phillips, 1991) was used. The results of the study indicated that social work students who participated in the study possessed pre-existing fairly high positive attitudes toward people with serious mental illness and psychotropic medication. Therefore, the interventions had no significant change in the pre to posttest scores for both measures. The control group who reported five months to two years of experience had a significantly higher change in their KIPMSW questionnaire posttest scores than the experimental group. Results indicate that the intervention may have been effective for participants who had some experience with people with serious mental illness. This study has implications for social work educators who are responsible for ensuring that future generation of social workers obtain adequate knowledge and attitudes in order to be effective mental health practitioners. Furthermore, the classroom interventions provide examples for teaching a variety of students about specific populations and fields of practice.
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dc.format.mediumdoctoral dissertations
dc.identifierETDF_O'Day_2008_3332749.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/237893
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectattitude
dc.subjectMaster of Social Work
dc.subjectmental illness
dc.subjectpsychotropic medication
dc.subjectsocial work
dc.subjectsocial work students
dc.subjectstandardized clients
dc.subjectstudents
dc.subjectsocial work
dc.subjecthigher education
dc.titleAssessing master's level social work students' attitudes and knowledge of pychotropic medication and attitudes about people with serious mental illness following a classroom intervention
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thesis.degree.disciplineEducation
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

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