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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 21, 2025 9:00 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Whittington, Drew <whitdrew@uab.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External] Request to Distribute Survey of Mental Health Trainees to Students in your Counseling Program
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">My name is Drew Whittington, and I am a current doctoral student in Medical/Clinical Psychology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Borgogna (</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:borgogna@uab.edu" id="OWA8504d984-ef38-5493-e6d2-095ca5b41dd2" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">borgogna@uab.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">).</span></div>
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We are conducting a national survey study examining mental health trainees’ personalities and beliefs around various domains of mental health treatment, including perceptions of evidence-based practices, theoretical orientations, and other domains related to
psychology and/or mental health.</div>
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We are contacting you as a designated program director or coordinator of an accredited counseling program. We are asking you to please forward the following survey to students or trainees in your designated program. We hope that our findings will allow us to
better understand similarities and differences among students in training to become mental health practitioners in various disciplines.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please reach out to Drew Whittington (</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:whitdrew@uab.edu" id="OWAa93e7e5a-746d-a0ce-f39d-f0b32b2a9742" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">whitdrew@uab.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
or Dr. Nicholas Borgogna (</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:borgogna@uab.edu" id="OWAe25b7e5c-6f48-efdf-64c5-df960a600539" class="OWAAutoLink" style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);">borgogna@uab.edu</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">)
for any questions regarding this study. We sincerely appreciate you for sharing this survey with your students!</span></div>
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Survey link: <a href="https://uab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3E50Hc9TtKd8ff8" id="OWA43668804-7f99-8509-e94b-73b63f2fe91c" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;line-height:normal; margin:0px"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(30, 107, 82);"><b>Drew Whittington, MS, MA | Medical/Clinical Psychology PhD Student</b></span></p>
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