Show Notes for The Aspiring Psychologist Podcast Episode: Understanding diabetes, resilience and loss with Mark Turnbull

Thank you for listening to the Aspiring Psychologist Podcast.

The life experiences behind Incoming trainee clinical psychologists can be incredibly different. In today’s episode Mark Turnbull guides us through the way he sees the world and events such as becoming diabetic and learning to manage and accept it, personal tragedy in childhood and also navigating his own child’s ill health has helped him to become a better psychologist.

Understanding diabetes and how it affects our clients is essential and this episode is just incredible so give it a listen!

We hope you find it so useful.

I’d of course love any feedback you might have, and I’d love to know what your offers are and to be connected with you on socials so I can help you to celebrate your wins!

The Highlights:

• (00:00): Summary
• (00:37): Introduction
• (02:59): Hi to Mark
• (03:31): Reasons we are chatting on the podcast
• (04:31): Becoming diabetic
• (06:02): The dynamics of diabetes in a therapy relationship
• (09:49): Health behaviours and activation Vs motivation
• (12:41): Parenting a child with health conditions
• (14:45): Resilience through life events
• (16:56): Personal tragedy in childhood.
• (20:09): Dysregulation in the 20’s
• (22:06): Protective factors
• (23:53): Connecting with people who have died
• (27:15): Failing assignments at uni
• (28:49): What is motivational interviewing?
• (31:16): Hopes for training
• (34:44): The benefits of being an older applicant
• (36:55): What we learn from relevant experience roles
• (40:48): Mark’s parting words for avoiding burnout as an aspiring psychologist
• (44:19): Thanks to Mark
• (44:22): Summary, Aspiring Psychologist Membership and close

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