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How to become a Clinical Psychologist in the UK
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hi everyone and welcome back to my
channel in today's video we're going to
be talking about how you can become a
clinical psychologist in the uk
we're going to be talking about the
difference between a clinical
psychologist and a counselor what
qualifications you need
whether you can apply as an
international student funding
the whole lot so let's get into it
so there's a lot of overlap between a
clinical psychologist and a counselor
but the main difference is that clinical
psychologists
tend to work with more complex people
people dealing with more chronic
conditions people with a more complex
background history
things like that clinical psychologists
also do a lot of research whereas
counsellors do not clinical
psychologists also now
have moved into more leadership roles
within services and so you'll see a lot
of clinical psychologists doing less of
maybe the face-to-face therapeutic work
and working more as service leads and i
think clinical psychologists can work in
a wide variety of settings and can kind
of move around
more in comparison to a counsellor
you're going to need a bps accredited
undergraduate degree in psychology
if you don't have this you can do a
conversion course which will allow you
to
convert any previous undergrad degree
you have
into an accredited vps psychology course
so this conversion course is one year
long and then it will turn say for
example your law degree
into a bps accredited psychology degree
because it gives you all of the
prerequisites that are needed in order
for you to be accredited by the bps
once you have your bps accredited
undergraduate degree in psychology
the next step would either be a master's
qualification if your grades
were lower than a 2-1 in your undergrad
or you would go straight on to the
declin psi
as your next qualification now when i
say d clincite i mean doctorate in
clinical psychology
you don't need a master's in order to go
from your undergrad
to your doctorate many other phd
programs doctorate programs they require
you to do master's but not this clinical
doctorate now don't ask me why but that
is just how it is in the uk
so unless you have a lower grade in
maybe your undergrad then you don't need
a master's
for your undergraduate degree you need
at least
a 2-1 in order to get on to the
doctorate they don't really look at
applications
lower than that it also might be harder
for you to get psychology-related
graduate jobs
with a 2-2 so that's when i would
probably recommend for you to do a
master's
a master's will then show them that you
do have the academic potential to be on
the doctorate but also to work in
psychology-related careers
after graduating but also some doctorate
courses
actually look at specific modules during
your undergrad so this tends to be your
statistics or your research module and
they
might say they want you to have a
minimum of 65 percent in those
modules but this isn't for all courses
so just
look out for that when you're reading
the d clincai course description
now you've heard me say deacon sly many
times in this video and yes it does mean
doctor in clinical psychology
or doctor of clinical psychology but
what is it
what does it mean how long is it more
information please
i got you in order to be a clinical
psychologist in the uk
you need to complete a doctorate in
clinical psychology
this is a three-year course that is made
to give you the nine
competencies that are required of a
clinical psychologist so not
every uni will do this course now all of
these courses are listed on the leads
clearing house
this is kind of the website that lists
all
of the courses and this is the website
that you apply through so it's kind of
like ucas
but for the doctor in clinical
psychology most of the places are funded
by the nhs meaning that you actually get
salary while you're studying and you do
not have to pay any fees for your study
or you can sell
funds so this is where you complete you
pay for the course and you also
fund yourself throughout your journey so
you do not get a salary while on
placement during the decline you'll be
working as a trainee clinical
psychologist
where you'll be completing placements in
various services
to give you the experience needed to
qualify as a qualified clinical
psychologist
you will also be studying alongside that
so you have a couple of teaching days a
week and some study days
where you'll be learning about different
models theories conditions the whole lot
and also having to complete a research
project and potentially
coursework and exams alongside that so
it is a very
full-on course
all of the information about the dkl
inside can be found on the leeds
clearing house website
this website has all of it all of the
courses are listed
all of their entry requirements are
listed all of the descriptions
are listed over there and they've also
got an faq section
and a section for important dates when
applying to the doctorate
so definitely check out that website
it's essential you're going to have to
look at it one day so if you're
interested in clinical psychology
head there first another useful resource
is the alternative handbook
this is a handbook filled with all of
the course information but it also
asks for feedback from current trainees
so you can really get a feel for what
each course is like and it's really
helpful when looking at
how old people are when they get on the
course how much experience they may have
had what experience so it has
loads of additional information you can
find this on the bps website if you just
type in alternative handbook they have
one for each
year and it's a really useful resource
especially when you're doing your
applications
so in order to get onto the decline site
of course you need your undergraduate
degree but you also need experience so
most courses say one to two years of
relevant experience but i think the main
thing here is to aim for quality over
quantity
so it's way better to stay in one role
and get a really good in-depth knowledge
of that role
rather than jumping around now in terms
of the kind of jobs that you should be
looking for
look at the person specification for a
trainee clinical psychologist
and look at the person spec points that
maybe you're missing out on or maybe
that you need to develop more and look
for jobs that will give you that
experience
so these jobs tend to be assistant
psychologist roles
research assistant roles healthcare
assistants maybe
support workers mental health recovery
workers
anything that's kind of client-facing
where you really get that hands-on
experience
but they will also look for things like
supervision or knowledge on how to use
supervision
efficiently so think about jobs where
you can get that experience
so most people see assistant
psychologist roles as kind of the
pinnacle of a psychology grad job
because it highly replicates what you
will be doing as a trainee just on a
lower level
you will also be working really closely
with a clinical psychologist
now assistant psychologist roles are
quite competitive and that's mainly down
to the high volume of applicants
and the low volume of jobs so i just
want to point out that you don't need an
assistant psychologist job to get onto
the doctorate
my supervisors had never worked as an
assistant psychologist before getting
onto the doctorate so you are absolutely
fine
just look for jobs that are in the
mental health or care sector
because that will give you the relevant
experience i really recommend using the
person specification to look at where
your weak points are
and then build upon that but if you were
interested in becoming an assistant
psychologist and then going down that
route i have made
loads of videos on my experience as an
ap and loads of videos on
how to apply tips for interviews and all
of that jazz so i'll leave that linked
over here
so there are two ways that the
application slash interview stages are
set out for the decline psi
the one scenario is that the courses
that you apply for only do an
application and an interview stage if
that's the case then if they like your
application you'll go straight to an
interview
the other scenario is that they have a
selection test
so these selection tests can be made up
of a stats test
a situational judgement test and a
writing test potentially
now not every course do a selection test
so you should pick courses that really
play to your strengths
if you know that you're not great at
tests and obviously don't pick courses
that have selection tests every
selection test is kind of different so
some courses like salomon
surrey and east london actually all join
up so if you apply to all of those unis
you only have to sit one test
but other unis kind of do it as a
standalone selection test for their own
course so it really depends
if you opt for courses with a selection
test what will happen is they will look
at your application and then see whether
you're a good candidate
you'll then be called for a selection
test and then if you get high enough in
that selection test
they will then call you for an interview
now this is what they say on paper will
happen
i got a relatively good mark in my
selection test but i did not get called
to an interview so they do look at your
application as well so it's a
combination of your application and your
selection test that will get you to the
interview stage so once you get to an
interview phase
you will have an interview with a panel
that is bold standard for every single
course
now other courses may add in a group
task or potentially a research proposal
type thing
where you have to discuss research but
this will depend on each course
for international students who haven't
completed a degree
that was tested in english then you'll
have to show that your english
language is at a good level where you
can study at doctorate level
so you will have to complete an ielts
test so say for example you studied a
psychology degree in a different country
but it was not tested in english then
you would need to take the ielts
and this is basically to show that your
english is at a good enough level for
you to study a doctorate
in terms of funding you can apply for
the nhs funded
positions however you need to make sure
that your visa will allow you to do this
and
a student visa will not allow you to do
this you need a visa that will allow you
to have
full working capabilities that's kind of
the path you can go down if you want to
have an nhs funded place
now if you want to sell fund then sell
fund some courses do have self-funded
places where you will have to pay for
everything in terms of your tuition
and also you won't get a salary finally
the bps will need to
approve your course if you did it in a
different country to see if it is
bps accredited in that way to see if it
covers all of the prerequisite topics
that you would need to have in order to
study at a doctoral level
if your course isn't approved by the bps
then you would have to do a conversion
course so that is the one-year course
that you can do after any undergraduate
level degree now if you want any more
information about studying in the uk
check out a website called study uk they
have way more information so please
check out this website that will
probably have
more legitimate information than i do so
yeah i hope this video was helpful for
you i
tried to make it as concise as possible
because i know it can be very
overwhelming
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