I am a fourth year specialist trainee on the University of Edinburgh clinical psychology doctorate and I work with children and young people with profound and multiple disabilities* and their families. I would like to understand more about the process of adapting to having a child with profound and ...

Hi shadowfox

This thread and this one relating to interviews/working in CAMHS might be useful, always worth using the search function

HTH

We are currently surveying trainees for the 2012 entry Alternative Handbook, the deadline is at the end of this month.

The Alternative Handbook comes out at roundabout the same time each year, if you can get hold of previous years' copies they're probably still worth a look.

HTH.

Alternative Handbook 2011 Survey Deadline 27th June 2011 The Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP) Pre-Qualification Group (PQG) committee seeks to support its members in their pursuit of a career in clinical psychology. Members include those in Pre-Training roles (e.g Assistant Psychologists, Supp...

Congratulations Elizabeth, just goes to show that sometimes we imagine the worst and the reality is different

Can I just be pernickety though and remind everyone that an MPhil does not necessarily equate with a 'failed PhD' as you can do one as a qualification itself among other routes

Well done Baa!!!

For those attending this year's PsyPAG conference, the preliminary programme is now live on the conference website . This includes two symposia on research relating to Clinical Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology that I will be chairing. We have also set up a CrowdVine social networking site whe...

Congrats to all the new cohort of Edinburgh trainees! I'm a 5 year trainee currently in my third year so I may come across you at some point. A lot of your questions have already been answered on the previous cohort threads on here if you do a quick search, e.g. the 2009 one here has lots of useful ...

I don't think any good psychologist or other professional would argue that physical symptoms, such as those you experienced, are not real. I think it is short sighted for any professional to rely solely on one model to explain presenting difficulties (eg medical model, psychological model), as our p...

I'll do another thread like the one I did for this year's open days as and when any details given out by the courses.

Anyone else who hears about any events, please add details!

It sounds like they are trying to get a sense of your communication skills, so I'd pick something that you're confident talking about and are interested in. Clearly, they don't mind what this is on so go with what you think you'd be good at presenting.

The Health Service is also different in Ireland I believe.

Oh and ours is a DClinPsychol just to add to the mix.

I think trainees on most courses work roughly 9-5, 37.5 hours a week as stated in their contract. This obviously encompasses any lectures or official study time, as well as time spent working on placement. Generally, 3 year trainees spend 4 days a week on placement with one study day a week during t...

The people holding the steaks?!

(sorry couldn't resist!)

This wiki might help...