Mental Health Training Characteristics of Psychiatry and Psychology Professionals and Their Reliance on Training Schools in Turkey

In the study, we aimed to investigate the psychotherapy schools of psychiatrists and psychologists during their training and daily clinical practice and their confidence in different psychotherapy schools.The sample of the study consists of 430 psychologists and psychiatrists reached. Surveys are prepared by consultation with the accredited psychotherapy supervisors from different psychotherapy schools. When comparing psychiatrists and psychologists, psychiatrists significantly attended more to cognitive-behavioral (CBT), psychodynamic, sexual, group, and supportive therapy training (p<0.01), whereas psychologists attended to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and family couple therapy training (p<0.01). The most trusted psychotherapy school was CBT (4.58±1.11), while the least trusted psychotherapy school was hypnosis (2.63±1.31). As the duration of psychotherapy training increased, the confidence in that psychotherapy method increased (p<0.001).The current study has shown that psychotherapy practitioners do not have a homogeneous distribution of their psychotherapy training, and these differences reduce their level of confidence in other psychotherapy approaches.