It seems very hard in this country to get access to mental health support. I myself have had issues in the past getting access and had to turn to charities like Mind. Under what circumstances does one get through to a clinical psychologist? Do you have to be incredibly severely distressed? Even the...

Have been watching a lot of Youtube channels at the moment and have come across a few interesting videos on the application process that I am going to start directing aspirants to. Maybe good to have a thread that has them for those who prefer to watch stuff rather than read texts or trawl through p...

You could go down the re-training route, but that is long and there may be better options. One possiblity is that you collaborate with a CP/Couns Psy and set yourself up as offering something that integrates educational and clinical psychology focussed around children and young adults. This could be...

Just recieved this from the ACP. If anyone does have any relevant information, it can be helpful to flag up to the ACP. The ACP-UK Board are concerned that there is a general lack of understanding about psychologist titles. People generally do not understand the difference between someone who calls ...

Has anyone heard about the government's plans for jobs post the covid recession? Taken from https://www.gov.uk/government/news/rishis-plan-for-jobs-will-help-britain-bounce-back A new £2 billion Kickstart Scheme will also be launched to create hundreds of thousands of new, fully subsidised jobs for ...

There is a difference between what working clinical psychologists view as issues (including limits to career progression, service under investment, role dilution, burnout) and the wider issues that impact on the profession. - How to deal with increasing mental health demand with increasingly limited...

In my recent AP post I did not have a supervisor, as there was no lead Psychologist at my site, which means I had no one to ask for advice when I was unsuccessful in my doctorate application this year, and thus don't really know how to improve next year. This lack of understanding to why my written...

I don't have any robust evidence about the reason for this, although I there are counselling psychologists at all kinds of levels within the NHS. However, when I was doing my DClinPsy, I spent quite a bit of time with the DCounPsy trainees at the same university and observed the following: - Whereas...

Well here's the problem. I'm going to be studying at the University of Bristol soon and, as far as I can tell, they do not have any clinical psychology modules. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that aspiring clinical psychologists look at these courses and their utter lack of clinical subject...

OP you may benefit from reading Martha Stark's Modes of Therapeutic Action . Although the book is more about the underlying mechanisms of therapy, she proposes an interesting framework of 3 models about how different types of therapy are conceptualised. Taken from the blurb Model I is about knowledg...

On my conversion course I met several people who had enrolled in the belief that clinical psychology was basically a prestigious and well-paid type of counselling, and that educational psychology was therapy with children. They weren't prepared for the science and research methods involved (especia...

Good to see you old timer. It's been too long. It sounds to me like you are advocating 'the personal is political' here, which is nice, haven't seen that in a while... can you please explain to me how you see that working as a therapeutic tool when it was essentially designed as an ongoing political...

I love, love, love these kind of theoretical posts, and wish there were more of them. My sense is that this vision of cultivating individual rationality – you might call it cognitive robustness – is rooted in a paradigm of enlightenment liberalism. Firstly, I would argue that post enlightenment libe...

I wonder if a cohort difference may be being played out? As someone who is more of Maven's generation than the new graduates, I think lectures may be quite different experiences than people going through the system today. 'When I were a lad', the largest lectures would have about 80 or so people (an...

When you are starting out it's easy to get hung up on the content of a job, but the further I progress in my career I have realised it's often the context of the role that is far more important. A prestigious job on paper may be quite destructive if the team is toxic, the workload punishing or the p...