The Aspiring Psychologist Podcast - Mourning the Queen and the new Clearing House Website

Episode Date: September 19, 2022

Episode 41 of the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast: Mourning and the new Clearing House WebsiteThank you for listening to the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast. In the U.K. and many other places in the world, the public are mourning. This podcast episode was recorded the day after the passing of Her Majesty the Queen. This coincided with the opening of the new Clearing House website. Today we discuss the new website and some tips and resources you can use during your application. In these times of public mourning, whether you are sad or not, stay kind to you.The Highlights: 00:28: The passing of Her Majesty01:47: The new Clearing House website 04:00: Making YOUR form sound like YOU. 06:38: The BPS Alternative Handbook 11:02: The incoming Aspiring Psychologist Collective book! 13:16: Personal responses to the Queens passing.Links:New Leads Clearing House website: https://www.clearing-house.org.uk/Get your Supervision Shaping Tool now: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/supervisionConnect socially with Marianne and check out ways to work with her, including the upcoming Aspiring Psychologist Book and The Aspiring Psychologist Membership on her Link tree: https://linktr.ee/drmariannetrentTo check out The Clinical Psychologist Collective Book: https://amzn.to/3jOplx0 To join my free Facebook group and discuss your thoughts on this episode and more: https://www.facebook.com/groups/aspiringpsychologistcommunityLike, Comment, Subscribe & get involved:If you enjoy the podcast, please do subscribe and rate and review episodes. If you'd like to learn how to record and submit your own audio testimonial to be included in future shows head to: https://www.goodthinkingpsychology.co.uk/podcast and click the blue request info button at the top of the page.

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I am recording this at a time where the public are in mourning. So I'm recording this the day after Her Majesty passed away and it feels like a strange time to be a UK citizen certainly a 41 year old one who's never known a life without Her Majesty in it it feels like quite a strange time to be a psychologist as well certainly a psychologist with a grief book. You know, public mourning and also how to go on providing mental health services and running businesses whilst there is public mourning going on can be tricky to assimilate. And of course, at the centre of all of this, certainly on the day that she passed away was the same day that the clearinghouse applications finally opened and so your life as an aspiring psychologist must go on and certainly

will go on if you are applying to professional qualifications. I believe it might already be or is fast approaching application season for educational psychologists as well I think that's usually around about mid-September so you know your life will also still need to progress if you do indeed want a place on training for autumn 2023. So as far as I'm aware the deadlines despite the delayed opening for the clearinghouse website the deadlines are still going to be occurring um i think it's 1 p.m on um friday the 16th of november 2022 for the declines side that is um the website's had a bit of a refresh um if you've previously registered on the clearinghouse website you're going to need to start again.

So don't log in to the new website. I think it's www.clearing-house.org.uk, but the details will be in the show notes or you can give it a google um but yeah you'll need to register again um and it's quite an intuitive form once you're able to get in but the first stage is they will send you a link that you need to be able to click on within 24 hours um and when that happens you can then get on and start filling in your details um filling in your details for your personal details your address your email your um you know your all your all your identifiables and then the details for your references as well and then you can crack on with your form as well so not sure if you were able to join me live i did a live to support the declensite applications on the 1st of sept, which is when we thought they would be opening, but they didn't. Thanks for that clearing house. And so I did a live that was really well received

and you can catch up with the replay of that by heading to my YouTube channel, Dr. Marianne Trent, and there will be a link for that in the show notes but there's also a playlist as well which includes all of the compassionate Q&A content that I have done over the years which will help support you with your applications for the forms so people have been in touch with me and they've been saying well what should I do next what do I do now how do I do that and you know you might well be considering whether you have the appropriate support around you right now whether you've got a qualified psychologist supervisor and if you have whether they are on board this part of the process you know for your form

um we need to make sure that you are within your form you know that it's about you i would want to read your form and think only you could have written this you know it should be based on your unique life circumstances and your unique path through your career so far so bear that in mind um but also how you know support is important you know being able to be transparent with your supervisor is ideal that you plan to attend um that you plan to apply to professional qualifications this year because I think it can be really useful to be reflecting on this and discussing this within your supervision that's certainly what I did when I was an aspiring psychologist because being supported is so important but if you don't have that or even if you do have that and you'd welcome additional

support then do consider coming on board to the Aspiring Psychologist membership because we've got so much going on and people are finding it so useful. Lots of great feedback coming in after each and every session. So come on board, you know, sign up to the waiting list to find out more about it. And as and when places become available I will be in touch but yeah it's it's a lovely thing to be part of and with that in mind we're just going to break for a little advert break and I will be back along very shortly with some more top tips for this application season. I'm Jess an assistant psychologist from Birmingham the Aspiring Psychologist membership is the best step

towards the clinical doctorate I've taken this year. Marianne's insight and knowledge is truly invaluable and it's lovely having a friendly and supportive space aimed at people with the same goal. I feel that I gain a lot from the membership. It's absolutely worth every penny if you're looking to become a psychologist then let this be your guide filled with lessons and experience that will help you get qualified so come and take a look it's right here in this book it's the clinical psychologist collective it's the clinical psychologist collective thank you so much for listening hope you found that helpful um yes so you know there is the alternative handbook um which people um find really useful you can usually only access that if you are a bps member british psychological society but what's really nice about the alternative handbook is that it gives you

information about the courses from the people who are currently on them so people are consulted so it's the bps that puts that together but people on the courses are emailed once a year to ask for their feedback about what it really is like being on the course. And it is a useful read, but please bear in mind that because I wasn't a BPS member during my training, that I was never sent um a form once um so i think it might tell you how many places are available um on on cohorts but it might look like there's been not many responders but it might be because they weren't um they weren't bps members and so i would have absolutely been more than happy to to give my feedback about my experiences during training but I was never asked so bear in mind that you are only perhaps reading it might have changed recently it might have changed that it's open but certainly when I was training it wasn't I was not contacted at all

and so bear in mind that you are reading the the opinions of people who are paying members of the bps um but out of that um population you are also reading the opinions of people who got their forms back to whoever was emailing them or contacting them um so yes um bear that in mind. It won't be all of the cohort. If you are a trainee psychologist and you have been contacted and you weren't a BPS member, please do let me know because it might be that it's changed. But like I said, all I can reflect on is that throughout the three years of training I wasn't asked a single time to contribute so that certainly didn't come to me from my from my admin team but it might be different on other admin teams so yeah I would love to fill in that gap in my knowledge so please do contact me directly i do respond to all my socials so if you are like

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collective book and let me just tell you it's going to be a great read um you know it's such a wonderful privilege um to be part of so many of your journeys and to be trusted and and it's just really really nice um to see people reflecting on their journeys um and you know just uh being able to see how people have grown and shaped and you know talking about what's been important to them and how they've made sense of the world through the lens of an aspiring psychologist. Through battles, through adversity, through challenges that might be linked to family circumstances, might be linked to physical health, mental health. Just the difficulty with trying to wade through so many people competing for the same goal so um yeah do please come along um follow me on my social sign up to the mailing list

because there are going to be exclusive competitions for people on my mailing lists um who um uh yeah helping out and buying copies of the Aspiring Psychologist Collective. So it pays to be on my mailing lists. There'll be a link in the show notes for that, how you can get yourself on that mailing list to be part of, to be first notified, really, about the publication, but also first to be there for um you know being part of exclusive competitions of being on the mailing list so yeah my little way of giving back um yes so let me think about

what else is useful but you know i feel like i probably did already say most of what i needed to say in episode 38 um but then it didn't happen did it you know the applications didn't open so i wanted to just create a little extra video just to pay lip service to that so that um so that you know it makes sense um you know okay so i think that will do for now you know i'm gonna switch on my tv have some lunch and see what King Charles has got to say about his new reign and the loss of his mother so however you're feeling right now you know that's okay if you're not that bothered that's okay if you are moved that's okay too look after yourselves be kind be kind to one another, be kind to yourselves. And thank you for being part of my world.

And I'll look forward to catching up with you again very soon. With this podcast at your side, you'll be on your way to being qualified. It's the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast. With Dr. Marianne Trent. My name's Jana and I'm a trainee psychological well-being practitioner. I read the Clinical Psychologist Collective book. I found it really interesting about all the different stories and how people got to become a clinical psychologist. It just amazed me how many different routes there are to get there and there's no perfect way to become one. And this kind of filled me with confidence that no, I'm not doing it wrong and put less pressure on myself.

So if you're feeling a bit uneasy about becoming a clinical psychologist, I definitely recommend this just to put yourself at ease and everything will be okay but trust me you will not put the book down once you start