Clinical Psychology Reflections Volume 2: Thoughts On Psychotherapy, Mental Health, Abnormal Psychology and More: Clinical Psychology Reflections, #2

By Connor Whiteley

Perfect for university psychology students and clinical psychologists alike!

Lots of real world topics in clinical psychology aren't spoken about at university. Or they aren't explained very well until you enter the real world. And other topics need a new perspective to be understood.

Can we change this?

This great book is filled with 19 short fact-based reflections and thoughts about clinical psychology. 

Filled with new perspectives on major clinical psychology topics and new thought-provoking ideas that can be applied to psychotherapy and our work.

If you want a great engaging book filled with interesting, thought-provoking reflections. Then this is the book for you!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: CGD Publishing
• Release date: Jan 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201913519

Connor Whiteley

Hello, I'm Connor Whiteley, I am an 18-year-old who loves to write creatively, and I wrote my Brownsea trilogy when I was 14 years old after I went to Brownsea Island on a scout camp. At the camp, I started to think about how all the broken tiles and pottery got there and somehow a trilogy got created.Moreover, I love writing fantasy and sci-fi novels because you’re only limited by your imagination.In addition, I'm was an Explorer Scout and I love camping, sailing and other outdoor activities as well as cooking.Furthermore, I do quite a bit of charity work as well. For example: in early 2018 I was a part of a youth panel which was involved in creating a report with research to try and get government funding for organised youth groups and through this panel. I was invited to Prince Charles’ 70th birthday party and how some of us got in the royal photograph.Finally, I am going to university and I hope to get my doctorate in clinical psychology in a few years.

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THE CURE FALLACY

This might actually be in one of my top 5 favourite reflections because this is a great topic to reflect on.

The cure fallacy isn’t any official term but I love it. Because of the state of the world and whilst I won’t do complete justice to the topic I’ll get pretty close.

Therefore, to me the cure fallacy describes everyone’s obsession with curing mental health conditions. Of course this is mainly laypeople but lots of medical doctors as well as professionals want to cure them too.

As seen with lots of parents of autistic children paying lots of money for cures.

I remember a few years ago watching something on Sky News and it was talking about a magic cure that got parents to make the autistic child drink a cocktail of lead and other bad chemicals to cure autism.

And as the autistic campaigner said, this is wrong!

Autism, depression, anxiety and many more mental health conditions don’t need to be cured. As well as they can’t be cured.

Therefore, all these hunting for cures is doing is 1) exposing the person with the mental health condition to risks and dangerous untested cures.

2) and most importantly, these cures are reinforcing the idea that the person with the mental health condition is messed up and something is wrong with them.

This is completely unacceptable and the cure fallacy all stems from the biomedical model and people’s belief that mental health conditions are the same as physical conditions. Meaning there’s a biological cause so there’s a biological solution or cure.

But as we know in clinical psychology, this is absolutely wrong. Mental health conditions (and even physiological conditions) and have biological, cognitive and social causes. Mental health conditions are extremely complex and extremely abstract.

Therefore, as clinical psychologists we need to make sure and openly challenge people who seek to cure mental health conditions. Because at the end of the day, it is not the person wanting the cures or the person giving the cures that suffer. It is our clients that