Hi

Thanks for your reply. Yep these antisocial PD's are attracted to the safety of government orgs for the financial security and opportunities to bully. There is a great book called called "Working with Monsters" written by an Ozzy academic its very good, its about Organisational Psychopaths in the workplace.


Yep I am a mature student from the UK studying in Oz. If I want to work in the UK I need the DPsych as some bright spark deemed this as the minimal qualification despite the research which says there is no correlation between effectiveness of therapists and the qualifications they hold. However thanks for your tip as I am sooo frustrated with the lack of integrity that I may just take the MSc

To be effective one just needs to be able to relate to another and to be able to accommodate different world views. Before Freud and Jung and Beck came along, all people did for 200,000 years was to seek advice from an elder, wiseperson, witchdoctor, shamen or whatever. Surprisingly the countries with the most psychs still have the highest suicide surely this says something. Perhaps the wrong people are treating clients. Performance orientated perfectionists are great in some jobs for example give me a perfectionsist in the operating theatres or cockpit of a 747 any day but not in therapy. The therapy system is designed by academics for academics and its full of bullies and control freaks who just assist in perpetuating mental health problems.

Thanks

I am doing a DPsych, its a not a PhD and not meant to be. Its a client focused and as such I had to complete 1500 hours of clinical practise often with high risk clients. I am not a researcher and don't want to be one. I want to be a clin psych. 70% throughcan still fail cos of the 30,000 thesis!

I have never come across so many narcissists, sociopaths and control freaks as in academia they applaud performance and this means they applaud the clinical students who can research and write but often they have no clue how to work with clients. So they have a thesis who is going to read it? The DPsychs I have seen are just gathering dust on a library shelf, is this seriously worth the pain? As for objectivity of external examiners what a load of balloney. I have two friends who recently submitted. One took 5 years and the other 8 years!!!! Its a 3 year degree! The academics would not let them finish because their thesis was not up to scratch. In the mean time 2 clinical psychologists are prevented from working as clin psychs despite the immense shortage all because of some academic with an ego and who can't see the bigger picture. We work with people who need help we are not researchers. So when my friends did finally submit one friend got an unconditional pass by one external and a fail by another so where is the objectivity? The other friend was told she would fail if she submitted and got cum laude!!! Seriously!! I fail to see how this is training anybody. The numerous sad stories on this forum where students have been put through hell, developed depression and for some suicidality which is just absolutely ridiculous that any one should be put under so much pressure that they consider taking their life for what...

Complain then? Nope because the uni just closes ranks. I have never witnessed such a thin shroud of credibility which masks a huge lack of integrity

That's great! Gives me some direction.

Cheers

Hello

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I am doing a professional doctorate which includes a 30,000 word dissertation. Its a coparison of views between clinicians and clients about a common problem within society, its just an exploratory study. I have resultsand just in analysis.

I asked clients and clinicians the same questions, clinicians were surveyed with a simple questionnaire (5 q's) I put together and was focused on why people engage in substance uss, maintain use,, barriers to stopping and health service issues.. Open ended questions. I asked clients the same questions in face to face interview.I catagorised the responses under headings and currently comparing views of clinicians and clients using chi square.

Issue: I am not a great academic by any means, far more comfortable as a clinician. Had supervisor issues, changed from a very controlling person to a much more laid back, patient nice guy who understands this is not a PhD. I got through my confirmation seminar, have found some interesting results which challenge a current medical treatment model. I am worried that my methodology is not sound though as there were no standardised questionnaires used to ask for opinions of clients and clinicians. My reason for not using standardised q's is because there has been very little change in substance use and I wanted to see if there was a mismatch in views between clients and clinicians and the existing q's did not allow for this.

Cheers

I was under the impression with qualitative data (the client interviews) and small sample sizes purely quantitative would be out. Any thoughts?

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I feel a little lost as to what type of analysis to do. Thinking mixed methods. Combining either content analysis or thematic analysis with quantitative analysis. Concerned about sample sizes

I want to see if clinicians / students views of substance use are in line with the views of substance users (Indigenous and Non Indigenous). I want to see if clinicans / students who score high on warmth, openess etc have views more in line with those of substance users.

I conducted an exploratory study to compare views of health practitioners and substance users on the topic of substance use. I surveyed health pracs and students in health programs. Survey contained 7 open ended questions eg. "What influences a person to engage in substance use?"4 scales relating to personality, sensitivity etc

I surveyed 50 clinicians and 40 students. I randomly assigned students and clinicians to either an Indigenous survey or Non Indigenous.

I interviewed 20 Non Indigenous substance users and 13 non Indigenous.

I looked at the open eneded questions from clinicians and generated themes from the data. I did not have predetermined themes and I did the same with the interview data. Have I used Thematic analysis here? Can I discuss differences in themes in a critical discussion.

I then want look at health practioners personality and their views around substance use

Meant to add I'm in London

Hey Bobby

I'm a masters student and need some help processing SPSS data can you help?

Thanks