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  1. I am enrolled in an MSc program in the UK this fall but I'm starting to worry about the math/stats component. I plan to become a counselling psychologist and have a background in the arts - my brain simply does not do numbers. The MSc is simply a requirement for the counselling doctorate program I hope to get into. When I read research papers I'm a bit bowled over by the amount of numbers in those things. How number-intensive is psych research? And is it silly for me to be concerned about this or SHOULD I be worried?
  2. Wanted to add: I have been wondering how important it is to study at a school that follows a specific approach or to get supervision from a therapist who uses that approach. Although obviously I'm not in school yet so it's possible my opinions are out to lunch, I feel pretty strongly about the value and importance of the Existential approach compared to others that I've read about (although I haven't experienced them). That is why I'm going to the UK instead of staying here in BC. But is it possible to explore ones own approach to therapy even if the school focuses on a different approach? How much influence does the training program have over that type of thing? My understanding is that programs here tend to be heavy on CBT.
  3. Thanks for the input. Although Spunky I'm disappointed to hear that. I wonder why the hours would be any different here? Maybe their program required less hours than the college requires for registrants? So far the BC College does seem pretty unhelpful and vague. They state on the website that they will not give out advice about non CPA/APA programs and they suggest getting an accreditation service (or whatever they're called) to look at the international degrees and determine if they're equivalent before applying. I don't know that that's even possible before I have the degree, and if it's possible to get them to look at a few different options. I did ask my own therapist and she said it is a total crap shoot with accreditation with the college. Although somehow she is an RPsych with only an MA so I'm not sure how she swung that?... she did suggest I go for the DPsych, though, as it would be more likely to transfer to Canada (and elsewhere). It is terrifying embarking on this without being sure, though. I wouldn't want to be stuck in the boat that those other UK grads were and have to register as a counsellor. It seems like the counselling regulations are pretty lax and some of the counsellors around here have done online certificate programs from sketchy schools - I wouldn't want to be lumped in with those counsellors after getting a doctorate!
  4. I wrote my MA thesis on speculative/dystopian. It seems strange to me to pick a grad school because there are people there working in the same genre. My supervisor hadn't read any of the books I was writing about and was not interested in sci-fi, but she was interested in a way of thinking about books that interested me. As another poster noted, perhaps determining WHAT in dystopian lit you want to study will assist you in finding someone compatible to work with. I did my undergrad and MA at the same school so I already knew I wanted to work with my supervisor because of the courses I had taken with her. Honestly, though, it never really crossed my mind to shop that carefully for a supervisor when I was applying to schools. The supervisor's job is simply to give you some direction and ideas for what is ultimately your own project and interest. Any good prof should be able to play that role. What I'd be more concerned with this time through would be ensuring that the program has enough courses that I'm interested in taking. My school was old fashioned and half the courses I found myself taking were of no interest to me. If you're into contemporary stuff I'd look for a program with more contemporary faculty so you don't have to slog through a seminar on restoration lit or something agonizing. And the funding package is pretty important. Ultimately I went to the school I went to because they gave me the most money.
  5. I am a Canadian heading off to the UK to study the Existential approach because there aren't any schools here devoted to it and there are two training schools specifically devoted to it in London (Regents University London and The New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling). Degrees in the UK are set up differently and one can enter an MA program without prior psych training (my BA and MA are in literature). The MA at Regents is 4 years. The school's DPsych is 3 years but one must have a BA Psych to enter (or have done an MSc conversion program -- also a UK exclusive). In the UK it seems to make sense that MA and PsyD programs are the same length and same intensity because therapists and psychologists charge the same amount of money and do the same jobs there. My intent is to return home to BC to work. The BC Psychological Society's website is vague about what international degrees they'll accept and just says doing a CPA/APA accredited program is your safest bet. I'm worried about picking the wrong route and not being able to be registered here -- I'd be spending a ridiculous sum of money on a 5 year degree only to find out I'd have to register as a counsellor instead and charge half as much per session alongside people who potentially did a 1-year online certificate. My plan is to do an MSc Psychology this fall (already enrolled at Regents) and then do a DPsych starting in 2018. I'd graduate as a Psychologist with the British Psychological Society and my hope would be that the BC college would accept that. If I could avoid doing the MSc and just do the 4-year MA program instead, though, that'd be more up my ally. I'm just worried that the BC college wouldn't accept an MA even if it is twice as long as MAs here. Any thoughts?
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