Mentor Relationships in Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training: Results of a National Survey

The article reports the results of a survey of 800 doctoral students in clinical psychology asking about their mentor relationships. Two-thirds of respondents replied that they had a faculty mentor in school, and PhD's were more likely to have a mentor than psyDs, as were graduates of university-based departments of psychology compared to graduates of schools of professional psychology.Ninety-one percent of mentored graduates evaluated the mentor relationship positively, and mentored graduates were significantly more satisfied with their doctoral program.