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22Sep2014

Beware of psychological advice

  • By Ian Bradley
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  There’s an old joke applied to many disciplines, certainly to my field of psychology: Why does the university routinely amputate the right hand of each newly graduated doctoral student? -Because then the newly minted psychologist will never be able to say: “on the one hand and on the other…” I was reminded of some
25Aug2014

Ethics ( cont ); Lessons in Management, Part VIII

  • By Ian Bradley
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In my previous post, I described the organizational structure that allowed our hospital’s department of psychology to develop and manage mental health programs that directly served the public. These were delivered directly by psychologists working in the Department of Psychology and not on multidisciplinary team. I also outlined the threats to the maintenance of this
06Jan2014

Memo to Young Psychologists: Beware of Promotions

  • By Ian Bradley
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The call came out of the blue from the secretary of a psychiatric director of a large and prestigious teaching hospital.  The director wanted to see if I would be interested in applying for the recently vacated position of Chief Psychologist.   I had been working in a small CBT unit of what once had
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