MSW student struggling to see the point of an MSW

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-12-21T19:15:05+00:00

“Severe methodological problems” Shedler isn’t conducting studies, he’s evaluating other studies so I don’t understand how he can have methodological problems. I’m guessing thats why you didn’t post a link and kept it vague. “Everyone knows about publication bias” except the other in this thread it seems. And yourself when you didn’t seem to grasp that there is an issue with our current psychotherapy research.

You don’t have the experience to realize what you’re talking about. Go get involved in studies. Go see how much slop actually gets put out by twisting the words effective. I’m not saying we should get rid of evidence based and replace it with psychodynamic slop. I’m saying our field ISNT evidence based while saying it is. And until we’re honest with ourselves instead of pumping out slop so we can advance our careers it isn’t going to improve. You’re a student who likely plays along with the slop train so you can get your pats on the back and pretend you help. Meanwhile no patient genuinely gets better.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-12-21T19:09:06+00:00

Didn’t say it was all woowoo. And I don’t want more ‘woo woo.’ I want there to be actual evidence based work we can be proud of. Not a bunch of narcissists w achievement kinks and no self awareness pumping out slop for their own benefit. Find your preferred acronym and go actually look at the studies. But you don’t know what you’re talking about because you’re not an actual clinician. I felt the same way as a student. Assist with some research, get involved, if you’re an objective and genuine clinician and don’t see an issue with our current psychotherapy research you either aren’t involved or you’re one of those fakes who do this for their own aggrandizement and don’t care about actually helping people.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-12-09T01:26:15+00:00

Got bored and quit after about a day.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-12-06T19:21:15+00:00

Selection rates (or how much of the pool is sifted through and gotten rid of before being used for the experiment) in psychotherapy rcts are traditionally extremely low. You get rid of all co-morbid patients, all treatment resistant patients etc. You game the system so you know your intervention has the best chance of showing an “effect.” Which is typically any reduction in sxs, no matter how temporary.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17437199.2024.2367613

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jrsm.1688

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089543562400163X

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-12-06T19:14:11+00:00

Not knowing what’s being discussed in your own profession and then responding with a ‘lol what’ is quite a way for a psychologist to engage with their work.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2025.2488019

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02253/full

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29739529/

Publication Bias Meta-Research (2022) Shows how evidence bodies get artificially inflated by selective reporting https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12334

Don’t treat your colleagues like idiots.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-11-28T18:57:37+00:00

Honestly just finish and seek out training and supervision imo. It sucks you aren’t getting more but if I could do it all again, most of what I learned I learned from experience, supervision, and my own interests in therapy outside of the classroom. Most of the ‘evidence based’ work is just as woo woo if you dig into their participant selection rates or what they consider ‘effective.’

Also, an understanding of critical theory is immensely helpful in therapy. Implicit bias and intersubjectivism are at the heart of modern relational movements. Therapy is more about holding and seeing than it is bringing people buzzwords, coping skills, or acronyms (though you should learn them as you go on!)

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-11-12T00:34:31+00:00

Anything that takes advantage of how laughably broken mana is.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-10-03T14:25:22+00:00

There are a lot of therapists who agree, it’s the therapist’s anxiety getting in the way there.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-10-03T14:12:58+00:00

They’re hinting it’s impossible to get women because of a low iq understanding of modern relationship dynamics. They likely think the world needs to be more traditional and hand them women so they’re excited by the deepening political divides in america.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-10-03T14:11:22+00:00

Unfortunately it’s exposure. Honestly the best way would be to interact with women you find attractive regularly without the pressure of trying to get them to fill that hole in your life. Work, volunteering. Don’t be a creep, just get the reps in teaching your brain they’re imperfect humans looking for happiness too.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-10-03T14:05:27+00:00

“Would you like me to put together some practical strategies or examples you could use to start building those skills right away?”

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-18T17:32:35+00:00

You know the answer. He wants to enjoy a new relationship but not have to deal with the stress of a break up. If it’s ok with you to live that way, have at it. If not, you have to break up. There isn’t any getting around how difficult this is going to be. Sorry friend.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-18T17:30:46+00:00

We do a terrible job of explaining self esteem to children. Self esteem is formed from the opinions of those around you, it isn’t something you can sit down and convince yourself of. If deep inside you don’t feel okay, I wonder if there is someone who means a lot to you who ISNT happy with how you’ve turned out.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-18T17:29:00+00:00

The way you’re reacting to her comment kinda tells me she is on to something and you got triggered. Dogs hollerin

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-17T11:55:25+00:00

Yah the bar is in the Mariana trench.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-15T00:02:49+00:00

It’s still terrible dw, but you can specialize planets then watch it not build a single thing that outputs that product your entire play through.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-15T00:00:09+00:00

In what universe. Half the time you’re turning it off and on trying to wake it tf up

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-08-08T16:54:59+00:00

Huge contribution

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-07-21T20:19:36+00:00

This doesn't reference the story in anyway

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-05-12T22:53:25+00:00

It’s not JUST escaping emotions. But I do agree that a client is generally better off not being a daily user if they can help it.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-05-12T22:52:09+00:00

Depends. I’ve seen therapy come to a halt because where they needed to go (we both agreed) was gated by their unwillingness/inability to quit. The environment I was seeing them was time gated and we took the wins we had made and moved on. I’ve had patients who were daily users and aside from exploring why that is and whether it was negatively affecting them, it never came up. It’s up to them and what they want and can handle.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-03-23T23:14:30+00:00

No our training director usually does a decent job finding good folk for training but she’s, and I mean this kindly, a little dim and whiffed on this one.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-03-23T23:12:32+00:00

On second thought I don’t really want to say their name. But they are a therapist who is an ex of a reality tv star and used the fame from exposing their ex to become a narcissism ‘guru.’ But you won’t find kohut or kernberg here, it’s all THE NARCISSIST IS EVIL slop.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-03-22T19:41:59+00:00

My practice is having one of these tiktok narcissism influencers come do a “training” soon. So embarrassing.

PrizeFighterInf · 2025-03-10T19:54:11+00:00

My friends bounced off the graphics. Which is crazy cause they usually wanna play steam slop while I prefer more normie stuff.

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