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- Fri Jan 15, 2021 11:53 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Off-topic
- Topic: 2020 realization (inc discussion about aiming bigger)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 545
Re: 2020 realization (inc discussion about aiming bigger)
That is really helpful Miriam and has given me a lot to think about. Thanks for writing all of that. There are a lot of parallels with where I am at the moment, and one of the things I have noticed is that there is a well trodden path if you stay in the traditional NHS roles going from Band 7 upward...
- Mon Jan 11, 2021 12:44 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Off-topic
- Topic: 2020 realization (inc discussion about aiming bigger)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 545
Re: 2020 realization
3. That I can, and should, aim bigger! I am curious about what aiming bigger would look like for you. More impact? More resources? More income? Larger size of business? I have no doubt about your abilities to achieve this, but I would also be interested in what prompted that insight? I think I also...
- Sun Nov 29, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: Careers advice
- Topic: Lost and confused
- Replies: 6
- Views: 675
Re: Lost and confused
There are so many things I have done wrong and I wish I knew about when I was still doing my undergraduate course but now I need to know where to go from here. While Miram and Hawke have given you practical tips, I would suggest you also reframe some of your beliefs around your progress and where y...
- Tue Nov 03, 2020 10:21 am
- Forum: Careers advice
- Topic: Career advice - PWP/AP/PhD
- Replies: 2
- Views: 417
Re: Career advice - PWP/AP/PhD
Not sure if it is coincidence, the global political situation or whatever else, but I have had a few international folk approach me about the various pathways in UK clinical psychology recently. What I have come to realise is that rather than going backwards and forwards through forums, DMs and emai...
- Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:51 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Under which circumstances does a patient get referred to a psychologist (as opposed to a PWP, CBT counsellor, etc.)?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 557
Re: Under which circumstances does a patient get referred to a psychologist (as opposed to a PWP, CBT counsellor, etc.)?
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...
- Tue Sep 29, 2020 10:35 am
- Forum: Clinical Doctorate Application Process
- Topic: Youtube videos for DClinPsy pathways
- Replies: 2
- Views: 836
Youtube videos for DClinPsy pathways
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...
- Wed Sep 23, 2020 10:58 am
- Forum: Psychology degrees, conversions and postgrad qualifications
- Topic: educational psychology to clinical/counselling psych
- Replies: 3
- Views: 440
Re: educational psychology to clinical/counselling psych
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...
- Wed Sep 16, 2020 3:56 pm
- Forum: Professional/Employment Issues
- Topic: HCPC Psychologist Protected title
- Replies: 1
- Views: 744
HCPC Psychologist Protected title
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 ...
- Sun Aug 16, 2020 6:54 pm
- Forum: Professional/Employment Issues
- Topic: Government kickstart initiative for psychology grads?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 544
Government kickstart initiative for psychology grads?
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 ...
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:17 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous: Related to Psychology
- Topic: Current Issues in Clinical Psychology
- Replies: 2
- Views: 345
Re: Current Issues in Clinical Psychology
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...
- Thu Aug 13, 2020 8:53 pm
- Forum: Clinical Doctorate Application Process
- Topic: Disappointment and rejection 2020 megathread
- Replies: 21
- Views: 7595
Re: Disappointment and rejection 2020 megathread
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...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:09 pm
- Forum: Careers advice
- Topic: Can anyone explain to me why a large proportion of counselling psychologists work in private practice ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 797
Re: Can anyone explain to me why a large proportion of counselling psychologists work in private practice ?
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...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 5:22 pm
- Forum: Applications
- Topic: Where am I going wrong?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2769
Re: Where am I going wrong?
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...
- Sat Jul 25, 2020 9:04 pm
- Forum: Clinical Issues
- Topic: Social justice and psychotherapy
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3372
Re: Social justice and psychotherapy
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...
- Thu Jul 23, 2020 8:39 am
- Forum: Applications
- Topic: Where am I going wrong?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2769
Re: Where am I going wrong?
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...