Main description:

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.

Contents:

Dedication

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword: The things that matter

Peter Kinderman

The context of clinical psychology

What clinical psychology can become: An introduction
James Randall

What do clinical psychologists do anyway?
Annabel Head, Amy Obradovic, Sasha Nagra and Neha Bharat Shah

Making the most of your supervision: Reflecting on selves in context
James Randall, Angie Cucchi and Vasiliki Stamatopoulou

Restorying the journey: Enriching practice before training
James Randall, Sarah Oliver, Jacqui Scott, Amy Lyons, Hannah Morgan, Jessica Saffer and Lizette Nolte

Everyone reflects......but some reflections are more risky than others
Romena Toki and Angela Byrne

The Personal: The selves as human

On being a practitioner and a client
Molly Rhinehart, Emma Johnson and Kirsty Killick

Values in practice: Bringing social justice to our lives and work
Jacqui Scott, Laura Cole, Vasiliki Stamatopoulou and Romena Toki

Reflections on the therapeutic journey: Opening up dialogues around personal therapy
Amy Lyons and Elizabeth Malpass, with thanks to Silan Gyane

On the reconciliation of selves: Reflections on navigating professional domains
Danielle Chadderton and Marta Isibor

The Professional: The use of self in clinical psychology

'Taking the plunge': How reflecting on your personal and social GgRRAAAACCEEESSSS can tame your restraints and refresh your resources
John Burnham and Lizette Nolte

Self-formulation: Making sense of your own experiences
James Randall, Emma Johnson and Lucy Johnstone

Pebbles in Palms: Sustaining practices through training
Sarah Oliver, Hannah Morgan, James Randall, Amy Lyons, Jessica Saffer, Jacqui Scott and Lizette Nolte

Sustaining selfhood and embracing 'selves' in psychology: risks, vulnerabilities and sustaining relationships
Tanya Beetham and Kirstie Pope

The Political: Selves and politics in practice

Power in Practice: Questioning Psychiatric Diagnosis
Sasha Priddy and Katie Sydney

Power in context: Working within different organisational cultures and settings
Annabel Head, Jacqui Scott and Danielle Chadderton

It's not just about therapy: Our 'selves' in our communities
Stephen Weatherhead, Ben Campbell, Cormac Duffy, Anna Duxbury, Hannah Iveson and Mary O'Reilly

The personal weight of political practice: A conversation between trainees

Farahnaaz Dauhoo, Lauren Canvin, Rosemary Kingston, Stella Mo and Sophie Stark

Epilogue: "Just stop talking and start to dance"

James Randall