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Hello all,
So I have a question for the folks on here who have been out and working in the licensed arena. A. did you have early career anxiety? What i mean by this is, did you ever get caught repeatedly second guessing yourself, catastraphizing over the potential implications of your work/opinions and ever having the thought, "what if you're way off?" I have found that for about the first six months after getting licensed, i didnt experience this. However, once i started doing work in an arena in which the stakes have the potential to be a bit higher (i.e., juvenile bindover, sex offender risk asssesment), I've found that my anxiety has gone up progressively. Is this normative? I dont really know, because i have seen so many clinicians' work that seem to be perfectly fine putting things into evaluations without any semblance of evidence, and will often opine on things that I believe we just dont have the ability to reliably and validly provide. Part of me hopes that the fears and worries i have are a good thing, in that they will keep me sharp and clear, but at the same time, I worry about this lasting longitudinally.
Anyway, any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Peace.
So I have a question for the folks on here who have been out and working in the licensed arena. A. did you have early career anxiety? What i mean by this is, did you ever get caught repeatedly second guessing yourself, catastraphizing over the potential implications of your work/opinions and ever having the thought, "what if you're way off?" I have found that for about the first six months after getting licensed, i didnt experience this. However, once i started doing work in an arena in which the stakes have the potential to be a bit higher (i.e., juvenile bindover, sex offender risk asssesment), I've found that my anxiety has gone up progressively. Is this normative? I dont really know, because i have seen so many clinicians' work that seem to be perfectly fine putting things into evaluations without any semblance of evidence, and will often opine on things that I believe we just dont have the ability to reliably and validly provide. Part of me hopes that the fears and worries i have are a good thing, in that they will keep me sharp and clear, but at the same time, I worry about this lasting longitudinally.
Anyway, any thoughts would be much appreciated.
Peace.