learned competencies important for performance in their current work in helping professions

Hypotheses 1) Interns will rate all 40 core competencies as moderately to highly important for performance in their current work in helping professions, since competencies were derived from evidence-based models and intensively taught and practiced throughout the internship. Hypothesis 1 was confirmed, as evident in scale means, which ranged between 3.58 and 4.70 on a 5-point scale for long-term effects, and means of 3.49 to 4.66 for short-term [..]. Percentage distribution of responses by item, cohort, and time frame, seen in Table 2, more graphically illustrates this positive pattern. Over 60% of current interns rated 36/40 competencies as moderately or extremely important for internship performance and 38/40 for experiences beyond the internship. Over 60% of alumni also rated 39/40 competencies favorably for internship and 40/40 for current work. By contrast, few items reflected more than 10% negative responses (e.g., “not at all important” or “slightly important”). For current interns, this included 8/40 items on intern performance, 10/40 on contexts beyond internship. For alumni, this included 2/40 items on intern performance, 4/40 on contexts beyond internship.