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Also, to start this off, I am 22, 23 in October. I will be starting my clinical psych degree up north soon. Originally from Boston. Moving on Saturday! My general focus is on treatment and coping mechanisms for those with eating, anxiety, and mood disorders- waiting for graduate school to really narrow my interests. I hope to ONE day work in an in-patient facility (hospital or rehab facility, Not sure yet) while doing a little research and some adjunct teaching.

Oh, also, I'm a female.
 
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Okay! I recently turned 22 years old. I'm originally from Wisconsin, but just moved to the city where I'll be attending grad school. I'll be starting a clinical PhD program later this month. My research interests are in mindfulness, personality, and emotions. I'd like to do both clinical work and research as a career--one of my ideal careers is to work inpatient in a hospital--but that could change depending on what all happens in grad school.

Another thing you should probably know about me is that I am very into musical theatre, opera, and singing. 😀
 
I'm 31. Have an M.S. in Psychology, thinking about going back to get my Clinical Ph.D. (not to knock my master's degree, but I am *so* tired of having my hands tied for independent practice). I work as a staff psychologist in a state prison setting, and have been there for 6 years. I love the work I do and would actually strongly consider coming back after finishing my Ph.D. I also love research and academics. I'm still in the school researching stage, although I'll need to take my GREs again (they "expire" after about 7 years, yes?).
 
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Allllrighty, well I'm 21, applying to clinical and school PhD programs right out of undergrad. I hope to do both clinical work and research in an academic setting. Outside of psychology, I'm an avid marathon runner, and I enjoy traveling and learning languages. For anyone who's interested in personality psych, I'm a 3 with a wing of 1 on the enneagram and an ENTJ on the myers-briggs. 🙂
 
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krisrox said:
For anyone who's interested in personality psych, I'm a 3 with a wing of 1 on the enneagram and an ENTJ on the myers-briggs. 🙂
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FYI, a 3w1 is impossible--in the enneagram your wing needs to be an adjacent number.
 
I'm 48 (no -- this is NOT a typo), married with three kids, ranging from 16 to 10 yrs of age. I live in NYC area and start my internship in a few weeks in a state psychiatric hospital. Before clinical psychology I practiced law for about 11 yrs. I love what I'm doing now and can't wait to graduate (hopefully) in 2010. I attend a Psyd program (Rutgers). Interests are in adult attachment, trauma & loss, group psychotherapy, and SPMI.
 
I feel a bit young compared to most of you, though by the time I actually get to graduate school I'll be about average. I just started college, but have a lot of credits from APs and college classes, so I'm like a sophomore and am looking for ways to get experience (ie, internships- drop me a line if you know of any please!). I'm fascinated by mental health and specifically personality disorders.
It seems like only really smart people go to graduate school. I admire all of you who've made it there and past.
 
I'm 24 years old, have been married for over 5 years, and we have a beautiful 4 year old daughter who has a genetic skin disorder called Netherton Syndrome (now you should look it up because isn't knowledge awesome? I always try to throw that out there, less people to ask questions when we're out buying milk).

I started college right out of high school as a Russian language major, ditched that when I realized I'd never be able to speak Russian without a Jersey accent, and traveled around with husband and then later baby, and went back to school (graduating in May 2010 with a bachelors of science in psychology/biology) b/c I was curious about why people were always so curious about people who were different than themselves.

I want to study behavioral neuroscience/pharmacology, I'm interested in the concurrence of substance abuse in the mentally ill, and recently have started to become interested in integrating motivation research (learning processes, incentive, desire) into my area of interest. I'm applying for a fall 2011 entry into PhD programs in this area, taking a year off to take some grad. classes, get more refined research experience, and wait until my daughter is able to attend kindergarten. Awful MD cut-offs, she misses the 2010 entry for kindergarten by 21 days.
 
i'm 32, recently moved cross country for a post-doc at u. virginia (did my internship in san diego @ ucsd). went to grad school @ american in washington DC (clinical ph.d program). my research has varied over the years - currently work in a lab that focuses on internet-based interventions, but my dissertation focused on "experimental existential" psychology. clinically I'm primarily humanistic but infuse my therapy work with CBT and existentialism. I'm probably going to get an NP degree next, so I can prescribe (and perhaps move back to DC for private practice, we'll see). Oh, and I've been a poor student for wayyyy to long.
 
I like long walks on the beach and deep conversations....just kidding 😀

33, married, Chicago native. I just finished my PsyD and am starting a post-doc at an academic medical center in Chicago next month. Did my internship at a VA. Also an ENTJ. My interest is in health psych, specifically chronic illness adjustment. I hope to have a blend of research, private practice, and teaching once I'm done. I'll be taking the EPPP in the spring (yikes).
 
Although I'm not a poster here - because I have no experience/knowledge on the subject - I think it's interesting to hear from a sample of who's on the board.
 
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I am 21, lived in WV most of my life and attend WVU.(I want to apologize for my mini-tirade in the thread I have created this Summer has been stressful indeed). I will be applying to a non-clinical programs(social/health, lifespan developmental, and biobehavioral health). I am primarily interested in influences on health behavior(specifically social influences) and health promotion in older adults and middle age adults, though I wouldn't mind including young adults eventually. I hope to be able to be primarily a researcher within a government agency, research institute, or University( if I can get away with teaching minimally) and maybe teach as a lecturer or instructor if sole research can't keep me afloat :laugh:
 
I'm 29 (at least for another few months 🙁 ), and I'm currently on internship at a VA. My primary clinical and research interest is related to eating disorders, and my secondary is in the neuro realm. I'll be looking at neuro and health post-docs....so feel free to PM me any opportunities you come across. 😀 My future plans include clinical work (primary care consulting) and non-clinical work (business consulting/healthcare development/policy reform).
 
After all this time I just now stumble into this sub-forum, and what a great first thread to post in!

I'm 21 and will be applying to Neuroscience/Neurobiology PhD programs this Fall. I'm not actually sure what my specific interests are in neuro, but a few are: development of the nervous system, some diseases (predominantly Alzheimer's), and some neurochemistry stuff. I'm thinking of trying to get a Master's in Clinical Research along the way as well (it's an option for grad students at my top choice school).
 
26 years old and currently a grad student.

Broadly, I'm interested in the overarching diagnostic structure for psychopathology. That's obviously unmanageable, so I primarily focus on addictions, with a heavy emphasis on tobacco use. Specifically, I'm interested in studying the underlying processes (genetics, personality, cognition, development, or anything else you can think of) that lay behind mental disorders, with the goal of trying to find the linking points between disorders that will help explain comorbidity. I have little interest in developing a narrow, circumscribed research line, something that I'm sure will haunt me when it comes time to go on the job market, so I'm currently trying to make peace with that.
 
glasscandie said:
I'm applying for a fall 2011 entry into PhD programs in this area, taking a year off to take some grad. classes, get more refined research experience, and wait until my daughter is able to attend kindergarten. Awful MD cut-offs, she misses the 2010 entry for kindergarten by 21 days.
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Sorry for the quoting/interruption here, but have you thought about having her tested? I missed the cutoff in my state when I was entering kindergarten, and my parents had me take some test that got me in a year earlier. 🙂

I'm 30 years old, female, and in my 6th year of graduate school, applying to internship this fall. My research is a little more social psychology, though headed back in the clinical direction; I study specific positive emotions. Both basic emotions research (assessment, laboratory induction, appraisals of emotion) and emotional experience in the context of substance use and desire/craving for substances.

This is going to sound totally dorky, but I want to be a DCT in an academic psychology program (you know, after tenure). I really like talking about training issues in clinical psychology and working on better ways to train both scientists and clinicians.
 
23 years old. female. single.
starting my 3rd year in a clinical psych PhD program.
interest is in expression and/or suppression of affect as related to psychopathology cross-culturally (mainly Vietnam). I'm also interested in intervention research, currently doing some parent-child and parent-child-teacher related ones.
Goals - research in an academic or medical setting, a bit of teaching, and about 20-30% (if that) doing clinical work like therapy/assessment.
 
25 y.o. male, starting 5th year in a clinical psychology Ph.D. program. Planning on an academic career (ideally mostly research, some teaching and supervision). Applying for internship this fall (didn't match last year but feel much more prepared this go-around). I research GLBT issues (such as sexual prejudice, stereotypes, gender roles) as well as eating disorders and body image. Lately my research has moved more health psych related--exploring body image and medication adherence in medical populations. In my free time I love playing tennis, and watching college football and ice hockey (I live and die with my Detroit Red Wings!) 🙂
 
27, male, married. 4th year Ph.D. with a neuropsych concentration. Live in Californiab ut from Kentucky. Wife teaches 3rd grade at a local catholic school, hates when I start talking "brain stuff" with her. :laugh:

enjoy biking, wine, Law and Order marathons, and just learned to surf. Wife is better at surfing than me...kinda emascualting actually:laugh:
 
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Let's see...I'm 29, married, just finished my MA in forensic psych with a concentration in corrections, & just moved from Chicago to Louisville to start my PsyD in clinical psych with a forensic concentration at Spalding University. I have a LOT of interests, most of them forensic-oriented, which I hope to narrow down as I get further into school. Career-wise, I'm thinking that I'll split my time between working in a prison setting & doing outpatient, although inpatient sounds interesting too. Yep, my problem is I want to do everything! :laugh:
 
25, just moved to Southern CA for internship. Hoping to live here forever- so pass on any post-doc opp's you come across!

I'm developed in addictions and hope to take that into screening for plastic surgery. Or else I want to continue working with adolescents in gangs. I know, two varied interests.

I'm big into the RxP movement and have based my thesis and dissertation research on it.
 
ClinicalTrainee said:
Sorry for the quoting/interruption here, but have you thought about having her tested? I missed the cutoff in my state when I was entering kindergarten, and my parents had me take some test that got me in a year earlier. 🙂
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I had thought about that - our problem is that we'll be moving in March, maybe to western MD, maybe to VA, so (1) it would interrupt the school year and (2) VA has a different cut-off than MD, so she'd be moving around too much for my liking. I decided to homeschool her for this year and for the school year starting in fall 2010, and I'm pretty proud of her 🙂 She's starting to read and write, and she doesn't turn 4 until the end of September 🙂 We want to get her into a Montessori school for kindergarten, I love their outlook on education, but we wouldn't be able to do that until DH gets out of the military in March. Another problem is that she was NG tube fed as an infant b/c of her skin disorder, and consequently has a speech problem (has trouble pronouncing some of the harder sounds - therapists think she'll be up to speed by next fall), and while she's totally understandable, I would really like to take the next year to focus on eradicating the speech habits she has and working on speech therapy. Thanks for the suggestion, though!
 
32, male, married, 2nd year of a Social Psych Ph.D. with a concentration in Health. Recently had my prior MA in Psych accepted, meaning I should be finished by Year 3, not Year 5. Lifelong NYer (Queens) who spent three years "in exile" in the Boston area while my wife attended law school. I have an apartment close to campus, and my wife owns an apartment in Queens, so I'm pretty much living like a bachelor for 12/14 days a week. Doesn't matter incredibly much, as my wife is (almost) a second-year associate, and works ridiculous hours, so we wouldn't see each other much even if we were living in the same state :laugh:

Professionally, I spent my intervening years between BA/MA and starting my Ph.D. doing psychophysical vision research, and marketing research. I'm most interested in 1) the childfree (aka, childless-by-choice), and 2) stress.

I'm not exactly a "people-person"... I usually refer to myself as an Asocial Psychologist 😀
 
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futureapppsy2 said:
How so? *curious*
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not wanting to hijack the thread, but briefly: used the medical sample at my school to determine future medical doc's opinions on RxP, possible referral rates, most likely to be referred meds, length and req of training for the doc's to be comfy referring pts to us. Currently looking at gender influences, awareness of movement, and other demographics influences on the responses. PM me if you want more.
 
I'm 25 and, I'm not quite sure who I am.

Thank you..
 
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