Hi guys, I would just like to run this past you as Im quite inexperienced with regards to posts within the NHS etc. It might have some significance it might have none what so ever, hence my question. Ive been looking for ages to get volunteer experience with some sort of professional in a clinical s...

Elizabeth*, its not the end of the world. Life is pretty much what you make of it. If you would like to settle down or have children then why not take a brek from studying, after all you do have a Bsc, 2xMsc a PhD...

Dont loose sight of whats important in life and have fun for gods sake.

mine a psychiatric nurse by profession but now is a the manager of a children's respite unit for learning disability.

Critically discuss some of the ways in which psychotherapy has been defined. I would answer this bit by outlining various types of psychotherapy e.g. Freud, Malan, Jung, etc and what these look like in practice. Then I'd outline strengths and weaknesses. Why has it proved to be difficult to evaluat...

Yeah i suppose you are correct. There was a group of students outside the exam room baying for his blood when I left. A lot of people were shell shocked, including me.

wow, ill put my response down as a fail then! This question completely threw me, but I was forced to try and answer it as anything that I had studied for didn't come up, considering I did 3 essay topics for 6 questions. I completed a question on compare contrast two different models of psychopatholo...

Just back from my clinical exam, and well it went "okay". No hints were give as but I did prepare 3 essays to which only 1 came up! Any ways, heres one I tried to answer and to be completely honest, im still unsure what the hell it really means: "Critically discuss some of the ways in which psychoth...

froze in over the last week so no chance of beach related shenanigans...also exams this week so ill try this coming weekend.

okay I will do, I usually take the dog to the beach on the weekends for a walk. Ill have a look see for you.

Thanks katy, yeah I have rewrote essay after essay and a few days ago have condensed whole paragraphs to one line. I can now pretty much read the lines and know what I have to say. I also layout my essay plans visually in my mind so I know what the 1st paragraph should say, the second and so on. It ...

sorry all beaches in Donegal are sand.

Particularly essay questions. I have a 3 hour exam next week and Ive been preparing over the last 2 weeks. Im wondering what sort of methods people employ to keep the stuff in your head :) I just write my notes over and over, making essays which I write over and over. Seems to work so far but its a ...

Holy crap! This sounds amazing (in the bad sense). It was only a few weeks back my counselling tutor gave a lecture about this kind of thing the inflicted damage these so called counsellors are doing to the professional practitioners.

Terrible.

I vouch for Andy Fields book. Its a great text.

psych_lad wrote:

DrFurbs wrote:Well I love stats but surely descriptives is something you learn in the first months of the first year?

Tell me your joking lol. Im in my 3rd year and doing SEM/mediation etc, does it get any more complicated than that?

Yes it does!

Excellent!