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Hi colleagues! My doctoral research is moving in the direction of computational modeling of behavioral and cognitive tasks, and I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for good introductory textbooks on the topic. My experience in the area is nearly non-existent aside from conceptual familiarity with Rescorla-Wagner models. However, I'm a decent statistician and eager to learn, so as long as the text is relatively accessible I think it would be worth my time to look into it. Thanks in advance!

That's really it. That's the post. So, so, so many of the users over there have such fundamental misunderstandings of CBT that it's actually scary to think about the general state of psychotherapy training that many people seem to be receiving. It's really concerning and I just felt the need to vent for moment.

This sub, and really just the global psychology space in general, gets a lot of traffic from folks interested in pursuing a doctorate in clinical psychology (Ph.D. or Psy.D.). It goes without saying, but clinical psychology is massively popular and highly sought-after. A long time ago, I wrote and posted the Careers in Mental Healthcare document pinned at the top of this sub to help explain the complex landscape of mental healthcare careers in the U.S. and hopefully help people make more streamlined decisions about what degrees to pursue. I thought I would make a post again to reiterate a few things which I feel bear repeating.

 First: Consider whether your career goals can be m

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There are many career paths one may choose if one wishes to take an active role in mental health care. This guide is intended to help you decide which of these paths is right for you. Please note that this guide is not exhaustive, and that many FAQs (such as “How do I choose a program?” and “What are the different training models in clinical/counseling psychology?”) are not answered here. For a more exhaustive treatment of this content, see the Careers in Mental Health (Omnibus). Note that not all of these options involve direct, independent provision of psychotherapy. Those which (commonly) do have been

Hello, friends and colleagues!

This discussion is a topic about which I have thought a lot over the past several years, but a recent narrative overview by Flis (2022) published in APA Div. 1's Review of General Psychology has reignited my overall interest in the topic. As anyone who has studied psychology to at least the bachelor's level should know, psychology is different from other sciences in that it has yet to unify itself through the creation of a robust explanatory theory or set of theories. For example, at the macro- level, all of biology is unified via the theory of evolution by natural selection; all of chemistry is unified by robust atomic theory; and physics, while still seeki

Careers in Mental Health (Abridged)

There are many career paths one may choose if one wishes to take an active role in mental health care. This guide is intended to help you decide which of these paths is right for you. Please note that this guide is not exhaustive, and that many FAQs (such as “How do I choose a program?” and “What are the different training models in clinical/counseling psychology?”) are not answered here. For a more exhaustive treatment of this content, see the Careers in Mental Health (Omnibus). Note that not all (in fact, most) of these options do not involve direct, independ