Why is the forum name changed to clinical psych?

[Taro_Taro]

As a developmental/education/quant psych person, I feel excluded

[EileanDonan]

Although I am clinically-focused, I will second this question. Surely the admins recognize that psych consists of many sub-disciplines, with the variety of graduate programs reflecting this? Would it be that difficult to either revert the forum back to general psych, or to at least create additional subforums?

[philoquant]

As a non-clinical person, I found this board very useful. I'm afraid future non-clinical psych applicants won't know to post here.

[amazingbutternutsquash]

This exactly. Frankly, this is a stupid, exclusionary change. Clinicians obviously felt comfortable posting here before, and non-clinical psychologists deserve a place on gradcafe. I am really not seeing the benefits of this decision. I support changing the name back. 

[alwaysapplying]

change it back

[Psyche007]

11 minutes ago, alwaysapplying said:

change it back

I'm a clinical psychology doctoral student and I approve this message.

[Psyche007]

As an aside, if they intend to open new boards for different psych fields, that's a huge error in judgment. We need interdisciplinary contact, even if it's at the application stages.

I think someone goofed. They leapt on an idea and didn't really think it through.

[justacigar]

Just adding to the growing group to say change it back! While I recognize clinical psych is a large focus of the forum, there are LOTS of other sub-disciplines that use threads. If I was new to GC and wasn't clinical, I wouldn't know that this space was for me, too. 

[PsyDuck90]

FYI, I have emailed admin to inquire about the change. 

[Psyche007]

I'm just bumping this for visibility AND to make the point that, at the moment, the top ten threads in this forum include Quantitative Psych, Clinical & Counseling Psych, Industrial Organizational Psych, Cognitive Psych/Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental Psych, and Social & Personality Psych.

Sorry, School Psych. You just missed the top ten. ?

Edited February 14, 2021 by Psyche007

[PokePsych]

Other than these valid points - a lot of PhD programs don't even have specific areas in their program (only 'psychology') and a lot of people do interdisciplinary things (e.g., social neuroscience is a field?!) This distinction makes so not sense....

[Psyche007]

2 hours ago, PokePsych said:

Other than these valid points - a lot of PhD programs don't even have specific areas in their program (only 'psychology') and a lot of people do interdisciplinary things (e.g., social neuroscience is a field?!) This distinction makes so not sense....

Yeah, it's interesting that nobody has addressed this, despite being notified by @PsyDuck90. They can just change it back, no big deal.

People forget that providing a service doesn't bestow ownership over a community. Unilateral change is this context is short-sighted, which is why I prefer to think of it as a goof and not a deliberate and indifferent modification.

[lewin]

Longstanding tradition in the field. Ignoring the experimental psychologists is how we ended up with APS (Cautin, 2009).

I agree with everybody else; the change is pointlessly exclusionary.

[amazingbutternutsquash]

It's been a few days. Have the admins said anything?

[PsyDuck90]

Just now, amazingbutternutsquash said:

It's been a few days. Have the admins said anything?

Nope, still waiting for a response. Sorry everyone!

[amazingbutternutsquash]

2 minutes ago, PsyDuck90 said:

Nope, still waiting for a response. Sorry everyone!

Well, then maybe it's time to follow up with them? Or for us to ask directly?

Alternatively, I may just ditch this forum. Reddit may be better going forward. I know I have no reason to stick around a forum that's excluding my entire subfield... along with most of the psychological scienes. 

[PsyDuck90]

12 minutes ago, amazingbutternutsquash said:

Well, then maybe it's time to follow up with them? Or for us to ask directly?

Alternatively, I may just ditch this forum. Reddit may be better going forward. I know I have no reason to stick around a forum that's excluding my entire subfield... along with most of the psychological scienes. 

You're free to reach out to @TGCAindividually as well, if you wish. 

[pizzarollgotbusted]

change it back please

[Psyche007]

On 2/17/2021 at 1:56 PM, PsyDuck90 said:

You're free to reach out to @TGCAindividually as well, if you wish. 

Done. We'll see if they take notice.

[Regression2theMean]

Strange that they made this change at a seemingly random time after many years of this forum being named "Psychology." I'm hopeful they will change it back once they receive everyone's messages! 

[Taro_Taro]

Hmmm. I wrote a message to the administer yesterday and they replied and said they would talk to the relevant person. Hope the change will be made soon! 

[justacigar]

Hey all, I noticed today there is also a thread called "Forum Feedback". Wondering if we should take our voices over there as well? 

[maybenextyear]

This is very strange  there are other disciplines besides clinical, too...

[justacigar]

Okay, I started a thread if you want to add your voice there, too! 

 

[Psyche007]

On 2/18/2021 at 9:32 PM, Psyche007 said:

Done. We'll see if they take notice.

As of this posting, my message has not yet been read.