Valued but tenuous? Postgraduate clinical psychology placements for psychology students in rural and remote areas – implications for future directions

Ms Fiona Little

qualifications: Masters in Mental Health (Nurse Practitioner)

contribution: Study conception and design, Acquisition of data, Drafting of manuscript, Drafting of manuscript

contribution: original concept, wrote the first draft, supervised data collection

position: Mental Health Academic

Currrently employed as a Mental Health Academic at UDRH- Tamworth and have a clinical role within a primary mental health service as a Clinical Nurse Consultant. Current research interests include recruitment and retention issues for the mental health workforce and improving access to mental health services in rural areas.

Dr Anne Croker

qualifications: PhD

contribution: Acquisition of data, Drafting of manuscript

contribution: contributed to drafts, supervised data collection

position: Research Fellow

Australia

Research interests include interprofessional collaboration and educating students for collaborative patient-centred practice. Research methods include hermeneutic phenomenology, philosophical hermeneutics and collaborative dialogical inquiry.

Timothy Carey

qualifications: PhD (Clinical Psychology)

contribution: Drafting of manuscript

contribution: contributed to drafts

position: Director, Centre for Remote Health

Australia