I write a fashion and beauty blog when I'm not bogged down with DClinPsy stuff! I find IFTTT.com an amazing tool (it stands for If This Then This). You create "recipes" such as "If I publish a post, then share it on my facebook page/twitter" and loads of other things. It has helped me cut down the ...

Great to hear Tyrus, well done! To expand on miriam's points about blogging thoughts you want to organise - it can help to link a blog with a twitter account, not just for advertising your content but also for those thoughts that aren't quite in depth enough for a blog post but still on your central...

That is of course your choice if you don't want to pursue it any more, or feel you now couldn't work for that trust anyway. I think if this was me I'd feel even more determined to pursue it, given that they've clearly made a mistake! Even if what you suspect is true about an internal candidate, it's...

Hi MaryLee, I'm interested to know why that's what you're looking for?

Maybe I've misunderstood but it looks like those courses are for post-registration professionals - does this apply to you?

The topic is certainly relevant academically, but I don't know how much clinical experience you would get on a course like this, which only the education provider can tell you.

Who are they targeted at? My doctoral training incorporated level A in psychometric testing and it was my understanding that other training courses were the same.

With the educational background I do have, ie. a US Bachelor's Degree in Physics, the advice I've gotten, specifically from my father who's himself a doctor, is that it's probably more practical and more feasible for me to go down the medical path. I mean, I can even admit myself, I don't have much...

If psychotherapy is your dream, you don't actually need to train in psychiatry OR psychology. There are plenty of alternative routes to being a therapist - counselling training, psychotherapy training, model-specific like CBT and ones you can add on post-qualification to a basic psychotherapeutic ce...

I would definitely follow up as it may well be an error on their part, if it was me I wouldn't want to let that prevent me from getting a job let alone a dream job! I'd also repeat the advice about contacting a member of the interview panel - they may not fully know what has been going on and may ev...

quick question, why have you excluded people who have 'undertaken self harming behaviour' before, and are you also excluding people on this same spectrum who may have had thoughts or urges about self harm or suicide? Can you also clarify that in this post you say you're excluding people who've ever ...

Take a look at some stuff about community psychology, if you haven't come across it already, which is basically what secret squirrel is referring too. From that stance, politics is very compatible with a career in CP as it highlights our responsibility to alleviate distress, and extends this to the ...

Yup. Rural Leicestershire the same - Leave posters everywhere, yet compared to Leicester City, overwhelmingly white british.

Well I know at least two people who work at HMRC and my refund came through, so I definitely think it's about who you know and who looks at your form before you submit it. If you don't know any tax inspectors, I suggest writing to HMRC and asking if you can shadow. This process definitely isn't a l...

I've PM'd you, because I can't help myself and get a perverse enjoyment from feeling awful about my sub-standard parenting

Position statement ( :lol: ): I am a parent now but wasn't when training, and in all honesty I didn't think I could do both at the same time. But then I had the luxury of age and opportunity on my side, having decided early on what I wanted to do and getting there at a reasonable pace*, so I was abl...