Wonderful news Ell - an achievement to finish at all.

Who funds the service? Are they commissioned by (for example) a local council who may be interested in their actions?

Can anyone access the following please? Abuse Characteristics, Multiple Victimisation and Resilience among Young Adult Males with Histories of Childhood Sexual Abuse https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/car.2508 Multiagency Response to Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Case Study that Explores the Ro...

There's a tagline for your next book Spatch - "The Banksy of the Psychology World."

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5) Lease car. The impulsive child in me wants to order it NOW, the responsible adult knows it's a better idea to wait until the end of the summer when my terrible old car's MOT expires and I've gone up a payband. Delayed gratification is not my forte.

Order the car!

Thank you Lingua, I think that's the way to go. I probably need to include some data, but the more I can weave in the voice of the service user, the better. Maybe I'll do a one page summary of the data rather than a laborious Powerpoint.

I have some information to present in about a month to a senior person in a different profession. It's an update of a new service, probably with some data and a discussion of the external evaluation. The advice to me from the senior person was to "make it interesting!" Please could people share expe...

You should make it your signature, workingmama!

Would that not be off putting to potential employers though? Unless it's a service where psych is really not valued, I'd have thought lots of expertise etc at AP level is off put by the fact they don't actually want to develop further/qualify... never been in the position to choose but would part o...

UEA and Essex are different courses aren’t they?

The NTW self help guides are pretty good.

Showing my age here, but I was thrilled when I got my ‘application received’ postcard through the door - it meant I’d done something right!

I’ve met a fair few people who aren’t my favourites over the years. I can give you the fake psychologist answe about reflecting on what the issues were, trying to have empathy for them and rising above it. But really, if I see them I am fake nice because although I am petty and hold grudges, I enjoy...

Only two people bothered to go to the LiveChat? I'm surprised.

I think I did when I was newly qualified and super excited to have my title. Now I tend not to, to the point where in my last job, service users were surprised that I was a doctor when they found out. Obviously I took that to mean I look incredibly young, rather than them thinking I’m not clever eno...