Surviving the Doctorate | perfectionism, competitiveness, balance & support *no sugar-coating*
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- The Doctorate of Clinical Psychology in the UK is notoriously difficult to get in, but as it turns out, getting in was only the beginning. The Oxford DClinPsy course asked me to share with the first years my honest take on how I managed my own wellbeing whilst on the course, from a "non-sugar-coated" trainee point of view. As I've somehow managed to survive in one piece and reach my final year of the DClinPsy, I'm here to share what I wish I knew when I first started. This was directed to Oxford trainees but hopefully will be helpful to those in other training courses too. Let me know in the comments if there's anything that helped your wellbeing through your psychology career that I've missed out :)
Disclaimer: All my own subjective perspective. I mention “Fin” who is a senior staff @ Oxford
☆ Timestamps ☆
0:00 Introduction
00:49 Expectations vs Reality
03:06 1.1 PERFECTIONISM
04:36 Aiming for good-enough
06:44 Doctorate is about optimising energy allocation
07:32 1.2 COMPETITIVENESS
08:36 Your unique value
09:07 2. BALANCE
10:08 Balance is synonymous to boundaries
10:39 The non-negotiables
11:11 3. SUPPORT SYSTEM
11:44 Mental health
12:30 Pals pals pals (on the DClin)
13:15 Personal tutor
14:27 Professional support - therapy, occ health, private therapy
15:54 It's not all on you
☆ About Me ☆
My name's Aika, I'm 25, Hong Kong Chinese & I'm a final year Trainee Clinical Psychologist at Oxford. I hope to de-mystify the clinical psychology career in the UK, increase the representation of diversity in the field and make Clinical Psychology and Oxbridge feel just a little bit more accessible and human if I can.
☆ Mentioned ☆
Mental health disclosure amongst clinical psychologists in training: Perfectionism and pragmatism pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29582... (Soz, meant to say Tom Price as first author!!)
☆ Disclaimer ☆
Views and opinions are my own and do not represent the views of the University of Oxford or Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. My videos are for informational and educational purposes only.
☆ OTHER INFO ☆
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Great to see you back! Thank you for your honesty. Good luck with your third year, you got this :)
Thank you!! 🥹
Good to see you back! :)
Good to be back!!
So excited to see you're back! I've missed watching your journey. You are an inspiration. Good luck with everything x
Thank you so much for your insight! I started training this year, and this is a very helpful and honest point of view, very refreshing to hear! :)
Best of luck with your third year Aika💜
This was a brilliant resource Aika and it’s incredibly heartwarming to hear that you’ve been able to make use of the support around you as your embark on the final year of your training. So much of this resonates and I hope to be keeping a lot of what you’ve said in mind as I embark on the Child Psychotherapy training myself. Congrats and thank you for sharing this 🎉
Thank you Shy!!! You’re already an incred psychotherapist!!!
So great to see you back! I always check your channel to see if there may be a new video. I am aspiring to get into a PhD program this year after teaching psychology at university. I realized that I really want to go the clinical psychology route.
Anyhow, thank you for sharing your experience! I have gained some insight as to what awaits me.
So glad to hear! I'll be posting again now so keep a look out for new content :) good luck on the PhD applications!
Thank you Aika for all of your reminders!🥰 I’ve been been following you before I got onto the doctorate. Thank God it worked out for me this year! I’m now watching this video as a trainee! This is so surreal🥲
And also coming from Hong Kong, I’m so grateful to see someone of a similar background speaking on topics around ClinPsyc🥹 Ga yao, all the best to your third year Aika!♥️
Omg! This is so heartwarming 🥹 congrats on getting on!!!!!
Thank you for this video 😍😍❤❤
my pleasure 😇
Fantastic!
I’ve missed you! You look well and sounding Scottish! 😮
Basically work hard but don’t forget to rest, have fun, see friends and family, go on holiday, say no and ask for help when needed!? 😅
🥹 hahaha idk why I do cause I’ve never been to Scotland! Yes, spot on!!
I wanna ask some questions about how to study psychology 1. how do you learn and take notes from the course material when you first encounter it(slides, core reading) and make it stick? So, do you make condensed notes or notes with great detail about how those experiments support the theory? 2. How do you revise those content (How do you make flashcards for psychology content)? . If possible can you make a video talk about these things? 唔該晒
please check out my “how to get a first in your psychology degree” vid, pretty much cover all these points!
@@TheOxfordPsych I have watched that video before but I think it just covers basic ideas of my points. Therefore, I still don't know how to use active recall for psychology content🥲🥲. So, I want more details and practical guidance from you.
hello! I'm master clinical Psychology student, but not in UK. it would be very helpful to give me some advice because I really want to apply for PhD but unfortunately I don't know If I'm good enough for that? or if I'm not smart enough? how can i improve my skills? :(
hey :) not really familiar with routes outside the UK; maybe its best to find someone on linkedin within your region?
Please may i know where did your masters and how to go about the application process ?
Hey! Made a video on my journey to the doctorate where I've mentioned this already - check it out
@@TheOxfordPsych Sure, thank you
“surviving the doctorate” that’s the point.
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