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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association: 7th Edition, 2020 Copyright is on the way to you. Good luck with your education :)
Check out this book and review activities with your supervisor
Fieldwork and Supervision for Behavior Analysts: A Handbook https://www.amazon.com/dp/0826139124/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_8K6CHQRVKT4N0RRX1GMS
NAH because you are doing your best as a new mom to a teenager.But the problem I have with your system is twofold. One, as others have mentioned, it is a cheat. It lets you off the hook for conversations where you have to say no.
Two, this system is teaching your children external motivation. For example, your son was rewarded for kindness with a prize of points. I would advise you to read Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards for a new take on that kind of gamified response to his action:
Many teachers and parents would like children to be concerned about other people’s welfare, to be sensitive to someone else’s distress and to take steps to try and relieve it. The evidence, however, shows that anyone who is rewarded for acts of generosity will be less likely to think of himself as a caring or altruistic person; he will attribute his behavior to the reward system instead. “Extrinsic incentives can, by undermining self perceived altruism, decrease intrinsic motivation to help others,“ one group of researchers concluded on the basis of several studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewards-Trouble-Incentive-Praise/dp/0618001816
I know that feel. On top of being a student at AU, I'm a library tech at another college and I see students getting overwhelmed by citation styles everyday.
Depending on how in depth you want to go, I have a number of suggestions:
- OWL Purdue
- This is my FAVORITE resource for anything to do with citations. I feel it does a great job of providing examples of both basic rules but also certain weird exceptions.
- For APA 7 specific, use the left navigation bar: Research and Citation > APA Style > Whatever you need to cite.
- There is also a couple great examples of formatting. They show a whole example paper with notes on format specifics.
- If you want to get more indepth, you could read through the official APA citation guidebook. Here's an Amazon link as they tend to be stable.
- I find most students don't need to look at the official stuff because there are a lot of great shorter resources. But it's always nice to be able to go to the source.
- There are also a number of shorter works that offer examples.
- The concise versions of the official guide is one option. This is a favorite in my library.
APA 7 is newer when it comes to citation styles and I've had some instructors not realize there have been changes.
If you’re serious about clinical psychology then give this book a go. It’ll give you a run down of these kinda of questions and so much more. Are you talking about the pros of skipping your masters? Well actually I would say that skipping your masters is the norm. I can actually only think of two programs that require a masters first. Pepperdine and Philadelphia School of Osteopathic Medicine. Maybe John Jay as well? Anyway, if you’re interested in clinpsych, it all matters about what you do on your way there. I’d say most people do their masters to get more clinical experience, research experience, or to make up for a low undergrad GPA. On the other hand some people though don’t want to jump right into a doctorate program and have a plan to do their masters first for career development reasons. Or if you’re just interested in psychotherapy, I suggest just doing your masters. I’m a current applicant applying to PsyD and PhD programs (I’m in socal by the way), and I’m trying to skip my masters and a gap year to save time and money. I have a good GPA, research, and clinical experience and I know my end goal. I see no reason to get a masters first which will just run me two years and more debt.
I second what the other commenters have already said. I stopped by to say that, when I was preparing to apply for programs, I found this resource to be very helpful: Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2020/2021 Edition
Is there a particular school you're looking at?
Also theInsider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology has a pretty thorough listing with whatever GRE info is available for each school.
You can select a clinical psychology graduate program based on the amount of research involvement you’d like to have. Some programs encourage more than others.
I strongly recommend this book and getting a good advisor before applying to grad school though: https://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Graduate-Programs-Counseling-Psychology/dp/1462548474/ref=asc_df_1462548474?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=526763498393&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=7439058847938103632&hvpone=&hvptwo=&h...
Check out Dr. Ellie Kazemi's Fieldwork Guide https://www.amazon.com/Fieldwork-Supervision-Behavior-Analysts-Handbook/dp/0826139124
Definitely find supervision that helps prepares you! Find a company that has BCBAs who focus on training student analysts! You can also find supervisors online as well (google search).
This was also required in mine (lol)
You may be able to join Facebook groups if you look up some combination of North Carolina LCMHC/mental health/therapists etc. and post about NCE tutoring and see if anyone might be interested in your area. I would highly suggest this book and this website for studying. Good luck!!! :)
This is a really helpful guide to writing academic papers:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Write-Lot-Practical-Productive/dp/1591477433.
Generally speaking, you write your results and methods first. I usually wrote the discussion of the results and then the intro. Finally write the abstract. Use a reference editor like Endnote or Mendeley or Zotero to keep track of your references. You should have general idea of what articles support your research because this formed the basis of your paper, then find articles that support or don't support your findings and other articles that might help explain.
Gotcha! I had a course that gave me the same impression, although, it’s not necessarily true. A lot, if not most, PhD programs are equally research/practice based. Sometimes you might even find one that leans more towards practice than research. I highly recommend this book to help you during your journey of finding doctoral programs. :) Also, don’t feel pressured into getting a masters degree just because you don’t have research experience. The time you take during a masters degree is the same amount of time you can spend gaining research experience.
Gotcha! I had a course that gave me the same impression, although, it’s not necessarily true. A lot, if not most, PhD programs are equally research/practice based. Sometimes you might even find one that leans more towards practice than research. I highly recommend this book to help you during your journey of finding doctoral programs. :) Also, don’t feel pressured into getting a masters degree just because you don’t have research experience. The time you take during a masters degree is the same amount of time you can spend gaining research experience.
> You won't be competitive for non-diploma mills if you apply this upcoming cycle. (Not "likely won't"-- won't.)
This is simply incorrect. An overall GPA of 3.8 is sufficient to get into most average to good Psy.D programs.
You are however dead in the water for Ph.D programs without having conducted any research.
Also, what were your GRE scores? I recommend the Insider's Guide for information on psych doctoral programs, it goes into extreme detail.
Most universities have a writing center and writing tutors, use this resource as much as you can.
This book helped me a lot: How to Write a Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive Academic Writing https://www.amazon.ca/dp/1433829738/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_JA820YCGX62D2WZZ9CRT
There are other similar books that can help.
Finally, start a writing group with other students (graduate students if you can!). Meet once a week for 2 hours. You first set your writing goals together (eg today I'm going to write 3 paragraphs, today I'm going to finish the conclusion, today I'm going to review 5 pages), then spend a full hour just writing. You stop for a break, someone brought snacks for everyone. You discuss what you had trouble writing, you get advice from your peers (what do you guys think of this sentence, what do you include in your introduction, etc). You have another one hour writing session. Then you discuss how you reached your goals you set at the beginning. It helps you to stay focused, get feedback from other students, and get some writing done one little goal at a time.
I honestly don't think I would have ever finished my thesis without the writing group and weekly appointments at the writing center. It just helps to stay focused and get it done. Also, writing is all about logic.
It's ultimately going to depend on which program you apply to how much they care about your GRE/work experience/whether you have a masters or not. My program mostly cared about research experience and GRE score. Your results may vary. I believe the Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology will list the GPA range and averages for accredited programs in the U.S.
This is also a useful book: https://www.amazon.com/Insiders-Graduate-Programs-Counseling-Psychology/dp/1462541437 - it's for both Clinical and Counseling Psych programs of all kinds. It'll answer basically every question you might have.
Definitely find a research job first, as the others said - I particularly recommend finding a research position somewhat related to your clinical and research interest. Even better if you can get a research assistantship at the lab you want to end up in! But also consider applying to some of the (few) reputable Masters in ClinPsy if you have the money. One place that does this is Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine - you can simultaneously apply to both PhD and MA. They have some really good research labs there, but the downside is it's extremely expensive. I got offered the MA but turned it down because $$$.
It depends on what you mean by the basics. Understanding the jargon will come with experience. Similarly, understanding the format of a scientific article will come with reading papers (basically all journals in the bio/medical/social sciences have very similar article formats). Understanding stats may be the trickiest part - if you're not a statistically inclined person, you'll probably benefit from working with a statistician. Whenn it comes to actually getting writing done, this book has helped me more than any other.
Okay, so a few things comes to mind reading your post, and the first is to remember to breathe. You will figure this out, and you do not need to go directly from a B.S. to a graduate program.
I am less familiar with Psy.D. requirements as I went the Ph.D., but I am curious about why you want to get a Psy.D., what your career goals are, and what other degree paths you've explored?
As far as finding programs, this book is recommended as a good starting place. Googling Psy.D. programs could get you some information. The best factor is going to be fit and aligned interests. What areas of psychology are you interested in pursuing? Finding faculty who share those interest is usually the best way to go about this process.
I have more advice I could give, but I think it would be best to better understand your interests and career goals to really target the advice for you, specifically.
Joanna Faber and Julie King talk about rewards in general in their book How to talk so little kids will listen and explain that rewards don't really work in the long term. They give a really good example of a wife cooking dinner and then the husband telling her that she needs to get dinner ready earlier and he will give her a reward if she does 5 days in a row and they will have a star chart to track progress. They go on to explain why this doesn't work and can back fire. Joanna's mother Adele Faber in her book How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk recommends a book by Alfie Kohn titled Rewards as Punishment which talks about the science behind this.
Correct.
Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2020/2021 Edition (Insider's Guide To Graduate Programs In Clinical and Psychology) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1462541437/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_95S11HQ6AY9HEEJXSBSC?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
Just write, and do no delete anything. Incoherent, ugly fragments, can be useful while you go back to your writing and start editing. I highly recommend this little book: How to write a lot
How to Write a Lot by Paul Silvia is a quick read, but it has a ton of tips! One of my advisors suggested it, and I’m so happy I got it. How to Write a Lot
Here’s a reference for you, Fieldwork and Supervision for Behavior Analysts: A Handbook https://smile.amazon.com/dp/0826139124/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_XVS10CTB139AJBVGR8B7
We use this to guide our supervision at our practice.
OP- this is an amazing resource. Breaks down everything you need to know including acceptance rates. Kinda gives me a panic attack as well 😂 Insider's Guide to Graduate Programs in Clinical and Counseling Psychology: 2020/2021 Edition (Insider's Guide To Graduate Programs In Clinical and Psychology) https://www.amazon.com/dp/1462541437/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_KPCY5YMHCZ4EQFBKN4AE?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
It's a book called Punished By Rewards.
Number 1. How many rewards are you going to give and what for?
Number 2. What happens when kids think they've earned a reward and you don't?
Number 3. What about kids who aren't motivated by whatever reward you are offering?
Number 4. It's not a sustainable model and decreases intrinsic motivation which hurts students long term.
Number 5. It puts other teachers in the awkward spot if they don't also bribe kids.
I can go on.
Token economies are for teachers with poor classroom management who would rather work on behavioral problems than actually teach.
Keep the kids working. Keep the kids focused. Praise thier efforts and not thier results.