臺灣兒童臨床心理學的過去、現在與未來

An Overview of Child Clinical Psychology in Taiwan: From the Past to The Future

本文的目的是整理台灣兒童臨床心理學在實務工作、養成訓練和學術研究等三方面的歷史和目前現況，並從中提出對未來的建議。簡言之，在實務工作方面，兒童臨床心理師的人數仍嫌不足，以致工作的負荷量太大，同時也缺乏督導；未來希望能夠增加兒童臨床心理師的人數以減少工作負荷量，並且可以建立完善的督導制度。在養成方面，學校體系內兒童臨床心理學專長的師資太少，導致學校相關兒童臨床心理學的課程或是不完整或是缺乏，宜透過台灣臨床心理學會的力量整合，團結各校師資共同開設兒童臨床心理學學程；繼續教育部份亦宜由台灣臨床心理學會規劃出完整課程逐年逐步實施。在學術研究方面，主要是整理過去的碩博士論文主題，建議未來應建立資料庫並盡可能以彼此合作的方式與國際接軌。

This paper reviewed the history of child clinical psychology in Taiwan from practice, education/training, and research perspectives. In sum, there are three major issuses in practicing, namely; the inadequacy of child clinical psychologists in hospital, lack of supervision, and work over loading. In the area of education and training, lecturers with the expertise in child clinical psychology are not adequate. This resulted in great difficulty to maintain a suitable program of child clinical psychology in universities. We therefore suggest that Taiwan Association of Clinical Psychology may play a crucial role in solving these problems by integrating related resources as a long-term plan. Furthermore, in current study, we surveyed the topics of master theses and doctor dissertations in child clinical psychology. Based on this result, we emphasize the necessity and importance of setting up a database in the future.