Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology

Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology: Developing a Professional Identity through Training and Beyond offers insights from a range of trainee, recently qualified and experienced clinical psychologists as they reflect on the development of their professional identity through the experiences of their training.

Table of Contents
Preface - Dr Will Curvis (Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Tutor)
Foreword: Introduction to Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology - Dr Richard Slinger (Clinical Psychologist & Clinical Tutor)
Part One: Challenges in learning to deliver psychological therapy through clinical psychology training.

1. Managing and Using Countertransference Emotions Within Therapy - Dr Roisin Turner (Clinical Psychologist)


2. The Power of Touch: Considering touch and physical contact within a therapeutic relationship - Dr Melanie Hugill (Clinical Psychologist)


3. Working in Secure Settings: How has this influenced the development of a professional identity? - Dr Laura Cramond (Clinical Psychologist), Dr Ailsa Lord (Clinical Psychologist)


4. Prescribed Endings in Therapy During Clinical Psychology Training - Dr Sarah Savekar (Clinical Psychologist)

Part Two: Understanding the broader role of clinical psychology; Professional issues across areas of practice.

1. The Identity and Contribution of Clinical Psychology in CAMHS
- Dr Graham Simpson-Adkins (Clinical Psychologist)


2. Thinking About Risk: Developing my identity as a clinical psychologist through experiences of risk assessment and management
- Dr Bethan Roberts (Clinical Psychologist)


3. Professional Issues in Neuropsychological Assessment - Lindsay Prescott (Trainee Clinical Psychologist), John Timney (Trainee Clinical Psychologist), Thomas Rozwaha (Trainee Clinical Psychologist)


4. Clinical Psychologists and the Welfare Benefits System - Dr Rebecca Hutton (Clinical Psychologist)


5. Supervision: The professional and ethical issues facing trainee clinical psychologists - Dr Nicola Edwards (Clinical Psychologist), Helena Coleman (Trainee Clinical Psychologist), Javier Malda-Castillo (Trainee Clinical Psychologist)


6. Should Clinical Psychologists be Political? - Dr Masuma Rahim (Clinical Psychologist), Dr Anne Cooke (Clinical Psychologist)

Part Three: Developing a professional identity as a clinical psychologist; Integrating the personal and professional.

1. A Trainee's Evolving Experience of Working Collaboratively - Dr Helen Walls (Clinical Psychologist)


2. Self-disclosure as a Therapeutic Tool: Ethical and practical considerations - Dr Sarah Davidson (Clinical Psychologist)


3. Through the Looking Glass: Reflections on the transition from a trainee to a qualified clinical psychologist - Dr Liam Gilligan (Clinical Psychologist) and Dr Denise Herron (Consultant Clinical Psychologist)


4. Professional and Personal Identities as Clinical Psychologists: Being human - Dr Hayley Higson (Clinical Psychologist), Sophie Allan (Trainee Clinical Psychologist)