{"id":38,"date":"2023-11-20T21:59:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T21:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T16:21:03","slug":"what-is-a-clinical-psychologist","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/what-is-a-clinical-psychologist\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is A Clinical Psychologist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A clinical psychologist will work to support people experiencing a wide range of mental or physical health problems. Clinical psychologists can work amongst many settings including prisons, hospitals, schools, community health centres and in social care. The role of a clinical psychologist can massively vary between services. Therefore, there are many different jobs that Clinical Psychologists can undertake as part of their role to meet the service needs.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-234\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1-300x80.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1-300x80.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1-1024x274.png 1024w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1-768x205.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1-1536x411.png 1536w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-1-1.png 1638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are some examples of common roles Clinical Psychologists may do as part of their role:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-280 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-6-89x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-6-89x300.png 89w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/12\/Untitled-design-6-455x1536.png 455w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Attending meets with other professionals to provide a psychological perspective to a client&#8217;s care<\/li>\n<li>One-to-one work with clients to help them understand their difficulties (formulation)<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating reflective practice with staff to support them to support service-users<\/li>\n<li>Providing training\/teaching to other professionals<\/li>\n<li>Undertaking clinical audits\/service development projects to improve the service<\/li>\n<li>Providing consultations\/debriefs to staff<\/li>\n<li>Attending MDT meetings<\/li>\n<li>Psychometric testing to help assessment e.g. assessing a client for a learning disability<\/li>\n<li>Risk assessment and management &#8211; ensuring service-users are safe<\/li>\n<li>Conducting and writing up research<\/li>\n<li>Keeping up to date with research to ensure professional development<\/li>\n<li>Supervising other members of staff<\/li>\n<li>Providing therapy using specific models or integrating models<\/li>\n<li>Facilitate group therapy sessions from a variety of models, covering psychoeducation and skills intervention<\/li>\n<li>Writing notes\/reports to support clinical decisions and recommendations for care<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does a clinical psychologist do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As we can see above a clinical psychologist has many aspects to\u00a0their role. Many people assume that they are therapists, but the truth is a clinical psychologist has much more to their identity. As a clinical psychologist you would not only be working therapeutically with service-users, you would also be working with teams, as part of larger systems, and working to develop and influence change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is a brief insight into the elements that make up a clinical psychologist:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-105 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/11\/infographic-pyramid-with-logo-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"561\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/11\/infographic-pyramid-with-logo-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/11\/infographic-pyramid-with-logo-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/files\/2023\/11\/infographic-pyramid-with-logo.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clinical psychologist will work to support people experiencing a wide range of mental or physical health problems. Clinical psychologists can work amongst many settings including prisons, hospitals, schools, community health centres and in social care. The role of a clinical psychologist can massively vary between services. Therefore, there are many different jobs that Clinical&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/what-is-a-clinical-psychologist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Is A Clinical Psychologist?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1730,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1730"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dclin-critical-applicant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}