Face-to-face or teleconsultation?: Good clinical practices in psychology students during Covid-19

ABSTRACT

Covid-19 as a health problem has generated a health and care crisis for the population, especially leading psychologists to examine new forms of care for people. The objective of this research was to compare the results of the clinical practice process in person, by telepsychology and alternately, developed by psychology students from higher education institutions in the Colombian Caribbean in the context of Covid-19;through a mixed study, including quantitative and qualitative data collection through online forms, applied to a sample of 105 students and 6 internship tutors from two Higher Education Institutions located in Barranquilla and Sincelejo. The results show that both telepsychology and face-to-face and alternation allow the development of clinical skills in students such as interviews, observations, evaluations, psychoeducation and intervention, and that practice tutors are satisfactorily valued as facilitators of these knowledge and skills, using different strategies and technological resources for it. It is concluded that the three modalities allow to carry out the training practices in health in a satisfactory manner, especially if accompanied by tutors with a high degree of commitment, empathy and adequate instruction © 2023, Revista de Ciencias Sociales.All Rights Reserved.