Indeed, you've got a really odd set of expectations, that the public should understand the evidence base and that clinicians should know every therapy approach. I don't work with anxiety, I don't know this person. But I still stand by the fact there should be proper independent research evidence. Th...

I don't think distance matters. But having a research or thesis requirement as opposed to just being a taught course is pretty critical, and having a credible department who don't just give everyone great marks to bring in more customers should count more than it does!

Just because some people report something worked for them doesn't mean that it is an effective treatment. Some people believe in homeopathy, but it simply isn't possible that it works beyond placebo effects. My standards for evidence are higher than anecdotal reports, and IMO people who don't evalua...

I also winced when I read the OP. And just to be a pedant, swearing (even when replaced by asterisks) is against the rules of the forum. That isn't to say that I don't often think something different to what I say. Most recently "that's fine, take your time" when I mean "just tell me please, whateve...

I wondered how this panned out? "My current service manager said I’d lose my pension" - if you haven't already checked, I can confirm this isn't true. You can have up to a 3 month break and still count as continuous service for the pension scheme and NHS rights. But you could always get it as unpaid...

Yes, and you can train as an approved mental health professional, a nurse prescriber, or a nurse manager. Some nurse therapists even get to consultant grades. So I'd agree that it opens more options for career progression and security, as well as more choices of where and how to work.

I'd take a look in the alternative handbook. But bear in mind that across the UK as a whole, most trainees are 20-30 (81% in 2017 intake, with very similar figures in previous years), and only 2% of trainees are over 40. That means that in each cohort of nearly 600 trainees there are only 10-15 trai...

You definitely can't make it a relevant experience entry, as you haven't done it to gain any relevant experience from yet. You could mention it briefly in the main paragraph (eg "I will be starting [post] in [date] and hope that this will [one line]") but I'm not sure it would add much as you haven'...

Full reference: European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, Volume 2, 1999 - Issue 2. Link

Sounds like a good question to ask at interview to me. I'd assume that the coordinator is more administrative, and therefore lower in the research hierarchy than an RA, but I don't know for sure. I'll ask on twitter.

Congratulations! If you want one or more of them more than the job you've been offered, or if they pay more, have a shorter commute, or there is a clear reason you think they'd be more helpful to your career trajectory they might be worth attending. But if you are happy with what you've been offered...

I'd say you do have to give it to them. You were paid by them to develop it for them, it isn't your intellectual property it is theirs. And they can't employ an AP without a supervising CP. So I'd turn it upside down and think that they value your content enough to want to keep it, and feel like you...

You'll need to speak to the HCPC about whether you can gain equivalence for UK practitioner registration, and what that might involve. I don't know how it works these days, but I have definitely heard in the past of people doing supervised placements and case reports to fill in gaps in their clinica...

I'd think of IoP, UCL, Oxford, UEA, Manchester and Lancaster when I think of the more neuro/academic courses, but that's mostly informed by where the neuropsychs I've worked with have trained.

We usually phone the successful person, and then as soon as they accept we email everyone else.