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- Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:51 pm
- Forum: Psychology degrees, conversions and postgrad qualifications
- Topic: Experiences of Online MSc Psychology conversion wanted
- Replies: 5
- Views: 359
Re: Experiences of Online MSc Psychology conversion wanted
Hi SR79, While I agree with Miriam that the opinions of strangers on the Internet are subjective, I do think that you should approach any distance learning course carefully and make sure all your questions are answered to your satisfaction before you sign up. Universities are under enormous pressure...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 8:00 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Off-topic
- Topic: 2020 realization (inc discussion about aiming bigger)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1332
Re: 2020 realization
These two have been big realisations for me over the past year as well, especially the last one.
- Thu Nov 26, 2020 3:34 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Related to Psychology
- Topic: Emma Kenny, Jo Hemmings and concerns re "Celebrity psychologists"
- Replies: 106
- Views: 62772
Re: Emma Kenny, Jo Hemmings and concerns re "Celebrity psychologists"
^ The fruits of rigorous statistical and research methods training right there. 

- Fri Aug 28, 2020 1:12 am
- Forum: Clinical Doctorate Application Process
- Topic: clinical psychologists with autism.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1024
Re: clinical psychologists with autism.
Hi Tamara, I've applied for various jobs under the disability confident scheme, but I've never been asked to name my disability as part of the application. All the short-listers and interviewers knew was that I'm disabled, not any details, so preconceptions about autism should not be clouding anyone...
- Fri Aug 21, 2020 10:09 am
- Forum: Careers advice
- Topic: Can I be a clin psy if I hate behaviour analysis & CBT?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1247
Re: Can I be a clin psy if I hate behaviour analysis & CBT?
I'm autistic and lately I've noticed quite a number of people in online autism discussion groups lumping CBT in with ABA. There is good evidence for the use of CBT in the treatment of anxiety and depression in autistic people, but I suspect people are just hearing the word 'behavioural', assuming it...
- Tue Aug 18, 2020 11:30 pm
- Forum: Clinical Doctorate Courses
- Topic: Research & DClinPsy
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1842
Re: Research & DClinPsy
Does anyone have any advice or had statistics anxiety themselves and still successfully completed the DClinPsy? Thank you I'm an academic rather than a clinician, but I had significant anxiety around anything mathsy. As a child I would have panic attacks at school and be in floods of tears over my ...
- Tue Aug 04, 2020 8:07 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Social justice and psychotherapy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3678
Re: Social justice and psychotherapy
Psychoanalytic theory isn't some kind of precious heirloom that gets passed down through the generations without ever being altered. Freud was flat-out wrong about many things (and sometimes unpleasantly so - he wrote things that are deeply misogynistic). Psychoanalytic/dynamic therapy as we know it...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:31 pm
- Forum: Applications
- Topic: Where am I going wrong?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3006
Re: Where am I going wrong?
Sorvio, I doubt not having done a clinical psychology module at BSc level is going to put you at any kind of disadvantage. The important thing at this stage is that your course is accredited by the BPS and that you get a good mark. I think Spatch's point was that students who sign up for clin psych ...
- Mon Jul 27, 2020 12:02 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Social justice and psychotherapy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3678
Re: Social justice and psychotherapy
The idea that reason is a white/Western quality that white societies have a moral and political duty to impart is the bedrock of colonial thought. France explicitly defined its colonial enterprise as "the civilising mission". The same thinking lay behind mandatory residential schooling for...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 12:38 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Social justice and psychotherapy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3678
Re: Social justice and psychotherapy
I said that your idea of therapy as a.) inherently western and b.) of such huge importance to civilisation is reminiscent of the White Man's Burden. Even if this isn't your area of academic research, as a historian of the twentieth century you will surely know the phrase and that it refers to (neo)c...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:59 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Off-topic
- Topic: 5 things I'm thinking today. . .
- Replies: 9324
- Views: 1679497
Re: 5 things I'm thinking today. . .
2.) Wild alternative career plan 472: set up a therapeutic riding centre. Before the pandemic I was taking a small group of my teenage students (young people with significant trauma histories or difficulties with anxiety) to riding lessons. The difference in them was astonishing. There is a girl wh...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 7:43 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Social justice and psychotherapy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3678
Re: Social justice and psychotherapy
I’m certainly not an experienced practitioner. That said, I’m not wholly lacking in “relevant experience”; I’ve volunteered at a crisis line / drop in center for the past three years. Again, not exactly extensive experience, but my pontificating is not based on nothing whatsoever. As you know, almo...
- Wed Jul 22, 2020 1:09 pm
- Forum: Applications
- Topic: Where am I going wrong?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3006
Re: Where am I going wrong?
Rather than asking yourself, "Which careers in mental health are less competitive than clinical psychology?" I'd try asking, "Which careers in mental health mesh with my abilities and skills?" Mental health nursing is a rewarding role, and much less competitive than clinical psyc...
- Wed Jul 22, 2020 12:27 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Off-topic
- Topic: 5 things I'm thinking today. . .
- Replies: 9324
- Views: 1679497
Re: 5 things I'm thinking today. . .
Are you me? I feel like you are me on a slightly different timeline (let's be honest I WISH I was writing a book right now). Congratulations on your house buying, and be careful what you wish for. :P Towards the end I felt as if I were wading through half-set concrete. I'm so glad the proofs are of...
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:01 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Social justice and psychotherapy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3678
Re: Social justice and psychotherapy
Miriam, can I ask – and I hope I’m not simplifying your position here – given your skepticism about the centrality of rational thought to the “therapeutic endeavor”, are you also skeptical about the whole intellectual and therapeutic project of CBT? And of IAPT more generally? Is this why your left...