~Jenny~ wrote:Would it be possibly to apply to all or maybe just two out of the three courses and make your decision later? Or would that make things more complicated?
With the theology and religion course you could email the course organiser (or whoever would be appropriate) and ask them whether they would accept your undergraduate degree?
k9ruby wrote:Take a psychology conversion course and work towards becoming a clinical psychologist
I would say this one as you are interested in the topic and care about helping people so much.
parnassus wrote:k9ruby wrote:Take a psychology conversion course and work towards becoming a clinical psychologist
I would say this one as you are interested in the topic and care about helping people so much.
The only difficulty with that is that I have a very poor background in the sciences. I got a high A grade overall for my A-Level psychology, but I have weaknesses within the subject area. For the physiology module I got a middling B, which I really had to work for - I don't have any knowledge of chemistry or biology. For the module on stats and research methods I just scraped a B. This is a big area of concern, as I have dyscalculia in addition to my dyspraxia. Maths is incredibly difficult. My psychology teacher took pity on me and gave me some help when I was compiling the statistics for my coursework, as I kept writing the numbers round the wrong way, adding up instead of dividing, etc. I got an A on the coursework, but that was largely because of the originality of my idea and the depth of my qualitative analysis, not because of any great mathematical skill.
Given what I would like to do with my life, knowledge of statistics isn't that important. I don't intend to be a research psychologist. I may have good ideas, but I lack the ability to organise and interpret complex data. I want to work directly with people who are hurting mentally and try to do my best for them. But to reach this point, I would have to pass the stats part of the conversion course (difficult, but not impossible) and then work as an assistant psychologist (usually in a research department) to improve my chances of being selected for clinical training.
This is where the problem comes in. Even basic secretarial work (typing up figures and other stats) would be difficult for me, as I wouldn't be able to take hours over it and make sure that I had each number down correctly. My brain mistakes sixes for nines and threes for eights. As I will never have to prescribe medicine, as a doctor or a psychiatrist would do, my dyscalculia wouldn't be dangerous in this setting. But it would be very frustrating and inconvenient.
However, I'm not easily defeated.I am going to write to the Open University about my learning difficulties and discover more about what the conversion course involves.
My instincts think that now would be a nice time to snuggle down in bed.
And it's only quarter to eight in the evening. Confused
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