Impacts of the VEGA Family Violence Education Resources for Psychology Trainees
The Effects of the ©Violence, Evidence, Guidance, and Action (VEGA) Family Violence Education Resources on Canadian Clinical Psychology Students' Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours
University of Ottawa
90 participants
Oct 30, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The current research project aims to assess the effectiveness of the ©Violence, Evidence, Guidance, and Action (VEGA) Family Violence Education Resources (VEGA Project, 2019) in improving the knowledge, self-efficacy, and clinical responses of clinical psychology doctoral students to family violence in clinical settings. The VEGA on-line training is a collection of family violence online education resources designed to inform health and social service practitioners about family violence in a Canadian context, including definitions of family violence, mandatory reporting duties, effective responding to survivors, and more. Participants in this trial will be doctoral students recruited from accredited Clinical Psychology programs across Canada. Participants will be assigned to an intervention or wait-list control group, and the outcome measures consist of knowledge and attitudes about family violence, as well as measures of skills relevant to appropriately responding to survivors in clinical settings. Further, participants will be invited to complete a qualitative interview after the intervention to discuss overall impressions of the training and other ways the training changed their perspectives, if at all, on family violence.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- Be a student in the Clinical Psychology graduate program of a Canadian university.
- Be engaged in clinical work as part of program requirements
- Speak and read English
- Have internet access
Exclusion Criteria1
- Currently participating in any other training relating to child maltreatment or intimate partner violence outside of mandatory or elective course material.
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Interventions
The VEGA Family Violence Education Resources (© 2020 VEGA Project, McMaster University) is an on-line suite of educational resources that target professionals who are likely to encounter survivors of family violence in professional and clinical settings. The resources provide information about family violence, appropriate clinical responses, legal obligations, and more. The resources are broken down into several training modules and include three interactive learning scenarios. The training modules include: Know About Family Violence in Canada Creating Safety Recognizing and Responding Safely to Child Maltreatment Recognizing and Responding Safely to Intimate Partner Violence Voices of those with Lived Experiences of Family Violence
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NCT06630598