My Planned Placement and Mental Health Crises

After the long and strenuous process of finding and organising the placement, I was offered a week working within the Salford Home Based Treatment Team of Greater Manchester Mental Health.

For months I’d been looking forward to the placement; I’d even sent an email to the team to find out if there was anything I could be reading/watching to prepare for it. I was especially excited about getting to know the structure of the service and how the team supports individuals, as well as interacting with service users and learning about their experiences. The particular aspect of the placement that I was most looking forward to was working with individuals in a crisis situation; emergency mental health is a side of clinical psychology that I am really interested in.

I can’t even describe how devastated I was on realisation that the pandemic would trigger the cancellation of my placement. Not least because it had demanded such a complicated (and, at times, disheartening) process to organise. I’m hoping, however, that when some sort of normality has resumed, I may still be able to spend a week with the team.

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