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.
Key Features
- Critical Discussion: Engages with key issues in clinical psychology.
- Practice Examples: Provides real-world scenarios to enhance understanding.
- Shared Accounts: Offers insights from various voices within the profession.
- Reflective Exercises: Encourages personal reflection on topical issues.
- Unique Perspectives: Includes contributions from both established and marginalised voices.
Additional Information
Through critical discussion, practice examples, shared accounts and exercises, individuals are invited to reflect on a range of topical issues in clinical psychology. 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.
