I should be writing in my reflective journal
Bah to that. So training is a rather massive adjustment. It's like taking baby steps in terms of doing therapy with others, though in a sense you are just expected to run with it. My supervisor asked me to do mindfulness meditation with her which was a bit scary. She keeps asking me to practice it on her but I am quite scared! I have to complete a schema questionnaire with my supervisor sometime too. God knows what that will bring up! It is a lot of naval gazing in this bit of clinical psychology but loads to learn too. I am still convinced I will end up in Neuropsychology; therapy just isn't my thing. Not full time anyway. I get too annoyed with people who bring relatively small issues to the table, and I know I shouldn't and of course I am "professional" and all when I'm sat there doing my therapy thing, but I think I could do a much better job with brain injury/etc clients - doing a bit of assessment and adjustment/loss etc therapy with them. I love interpreting the patterns of what people find hard or easy or ok and why and whether that might be alcoholic dementia or vascular dementia or brain injury, much more than I like hearing about how someone can't get on at uni because their parents are too overbearing. All issues are relative of course, but.. yeah! It is interesting in itself I suppose - parents who are too liberal etc and emotionally neglectful, and the impact that has in your 20s-30s, or too strict and omg why didn't you get an A instead of a B in that A level? Both of these things ring a bell for me :p Definitely makes you think. Maybe that's why I'm quite averse to it.
I have had to do a scary therapy roleplay on camera, which will be sent to service users etc to evaluate and give feedback on! argh. I also think I will do my elective in Neuropsych in Leamington or Cardiff where I worked before if I can do a year long one, because I have loads of links there and could just commute for uni occasionally - there isn't much to do at uni in the final year. I am always thinking ahead.. ah well! We would so live in Penarth. Though having said that, Mark is adjusting more to Birmingham now. Not the lack of beaches, but we are glad for friends and family locally and never have a dull weekend these days so we'll see. Birmingham is a bit colder than Cardiff though which I do not like, the snow was not as bad there.
Lu got into nursing. I am really glad because she was lacking direction there quite a bit.
Dad keeps having falls because of his Miniere's disease. It's a disorder of the vestibular system I think - so balance and so on. It can also cause various mental health problems due to the interference from tinnitus and can lead to deafness, which must be absolutely horrible, especially when you are very into your music - both playing and listening. It's a bit worrying as he needs to drive everywhere because they live in a tiny village, and his wife can't drive because she has carpal tunnel. He has retired and she can't work because of this thing so is going down to half pay. He is going to need to get a firm diagnosis and give his driving license back most likely. Bit rubbish!!
I have had to do a scary therapy roleplay on camera, which will be sent to service users etc to evaluate and give feedback on! argh. I also think I will do my elective in Neuropsych in Leamington or Cardiff where I worked before if I can do a year long one, because I have loads of links there and could just commute for uni occasionally - there isn't much to do at uni in the final year. I am always thinking ahead.. ah well! We would so live in Penarth. Though having said that, Mark is adjusting more to Birmingham now. Not the lack of beaches, but we are glad for friends and family locally and never have a dull weekend these days so we'll see. Birmingham is a bit colder than Cardiff though which I do not like, the snow was not as bad there.
Lu got into nursing. I am really glad because she was lacking direction there quite a bit.
Dad keeps having falls because of his Miniere's disease. It's a disorder of the vestibular system I think - so balance and so on. It can also cause various mental health problems due to the interference from tinnitus and can lead to deafness, which must be absolutely horrible, especially when you are very into your music - both playing and listening. It's a bit worrying as he needs to drive everywhere because they live in a tiny village, and his wife can't drive because she has carpal tunnel. He has retired and she can't work because of this thing so is going down to half pay. He is going to need to get a firm diagnosis and give his driving license back most likely. Bit rubbish!!