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Surviving Clinical Psychology: Navigating Personal, Professional and Political Selves on the Journey to Qualification
This vital new book navigates the personal, professional and political selves on the journey to training in clinical psychology. Readers will be able to explore a range of ways to enrich their practice through a focus on identities and differences, relationships and power within organisations, supervisory contexts, therapeutic conventions and community approaches.
This book includes a rich exploration of how we make sense of personal experiences as practitioners, including chapters on self-formulation, personal therapy, and using services. Through critical discussion, practice examples, shared accounts and exercises, individuals are invited to reflect on a range of topical issues in clinical psychology. Voices often marginalised within the profession write side-by-side with those more established in the field, offering a unique perspective on the issues faced in navigating clinical training and the profession more broadly. In coming together, the authors of this book explore what clinical psychology can become.
Surviving Clinical Psychology invites those early on in their careers to link 'the political' to personal and professional development in a way that is creative, critical and values-based, and will be of interest to pre-qualified psychologists and researchers, and those mentoring early-career practitioners.
This book includes a rich exploration of how we make sense of personal experiences as practitioners, including chapters on self-formulation, personal therapy, and using services. Through critical discussion, practice examples, shared accounts and exercises, individuals are invited to reflect on a range of topical issues in clinical psychology. Voices often marginalised within the profession write side-by-side with those more established in the field, offering a unique perspective on the issues faced in navigating clinical training and the profession more broadly. In coming together, the authors of this book explore what clinical psychology can become.
Surviving Clinical Psychology invites those early on in their careers to link 'the political' to personal and professional development in a way that is creative, critical and values-based, and will be of interest to pre-qualified psychologists and researchers, and those mentoring early-career practitioners.
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268 pages, ebook
Published December 6, 2019
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November 20, 2020
This book was really insightful and a really useful prompt for being more reflective.
My only comment is the price of it. To buy it new is around £100 and second hand generally around £20, making it so unaccessible for many aspiring Psychologists.
My only comment is the price of it. To buy it new is around £100 and second hand generally around £20, making it so unaccessible for many aspiring Psychologists.
October 31, 2023
Really good for reflective practice, maybe helpful points about intersecting identities. Did give me lots of food for thought on my values as a clinician, has been helpful for application writing. Will re-read.
September 27, 2020
A must read for aspiring clinical psychologists. While reading this book, I found myself reflecting on my experiences and motivations to get into training. I have explored in-depth the personal, professional and political aspects of myself, and how these narratives can/should be challenged.
January 4, 2025
Really helpful for anyone wanting to explore key ideas in clinical psychology
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