It brought to mind that scene in the Untouchables, where Sean Connery and Kevin Costner need to recruit a new team member. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8mHfcpMQsI Note it's not the actual answer given (and for the record I would never advocate anyone pull a gun on an interviewing panel), but it'...

I have several thoughts about such para-professional psychology roles. While, I do think there does need to be a range of para-psychology roles and disciplines (like you do with Physician assistants, or HCAs for nursing), its the execution and operational elements I have questions about. Firstly, is...

I wonder if something else is being played out here; the way CBT has evolved and developed over the last 50 years and what we see as a single unified approach is actually the combination and refinement of lots of different elements and potentially comes from lots of different traditions and sources....

I have no doubt that BME candidates can find it harder to secure a post if competing for one, but I'm not sure how a potential applicant's ethnic origins make it more or less likely that a post in the right specialism and geography would become vacant or be created/funded with the right timing. Unl...

It’s not necessarily writing an application or interview. It’s just having a suitable post come up.

It’s helpful to think of a trainee post as a job with a particular company (nhs trust) rather than a course of study. Much in the same way you wouldn’t expect to transfer to a similar job with Virgin Atlantic in another location if you worked for British airways, a course with an individual ethos an...

I do agree that a new therapy does need to be developed (and welcomed) but forgive my ignorance here which I am surely about to reveal, why doesn't he conduct a randomised control trial? The cynic in me says it is to do with expense and would most assuredly detract from his time selling the trainin...

Does anyone do this for marginalised qualifieds looking to make consultant?

Interesting points, and I hadn't come across BWRT before. This is what worries me Lingua; that psychologists are in fact using it on the NHS. The NHS have funded this one study that I have referred to which has used 6-8 participants and the person who has conducted the study has actually said; 'Brai...

Any tips on dealing with it? Partly, its going to be setting your own realistic expectations that people are going to think what they want to think, and most will come along believing the "myths" around any subject. You can't really control that, and the most helpful thing you can do is not to be t...

I have found this issue comes up a lot when people are thinking about pre-qualified clinical training experience, and I think that this is partly driven by how opaque the PhD route actually is. I completely can appreciate where the OP is coming from in viewing it as a way to stand out from the compe...

If I was that cynical, I would have fake posted something along the lines of “I read the book and I used what was in it to get onto training” or “the best bit is where they mention Ryan Goslings phone number”.

Is he the Banksy of the Psychology world or am I being dippy?

Banksy? I am flattered. That said, I do cause a lot of trouble across the South-West and am in the process of developing a self shredding psychology assessment report. (GDPR is taken quite seriously around here)

As someone who has read a hell of a lot of those first lines, I would second Maven's view that freshness and originality is critical. You aren't going to get that canvassing a public forum, where anything said will most likely turn up on dozens of forms within a few weeks of it being posted. However...

Like Miriam, I have been reading about the work of Prof. Laura Empson and felt it applies here. For those of you who haven't been following the work, Empson has researched high performers in various organisations. She observed the phenomenon of the "insecure overachiever", very bright and ambitious ...