My Interest In Psychology

Psychology has always been a part of my life indirectly, from people watching in an ice cream shop with my dad, to emergency counseling sessions with a friend after emotional trauma. I have always analyzed people’s behavior even since I was a child watching the way my parents raised me and the way they acted towards one another. I have always been interested in the way the human mind works and how we interact with each other. Over the years my interest in the world of psychology has developed and taken my interests to examining the way we, as human being, interact with each other romantically. In the United States there are 2,400 divorces per day, a statistic that breaks my heart when I think about it. Many of these divorces are caused by a lack of communication and a lack of commitment to making sure that they have a solid foundation in their relationship before they build a marriage. I believe that changing the way our country thinks of marriage and the more respect we build for marriage and family the more we can heal our country. Families are the heart of our country and healthy family life, no …show more content…
Because the program is dedicated to supporting its students and finding them programs that benefit their students through the Council for Relationships. In other programs I only found one or two professors that had the same interests as me, in this program I found six professors that have interests that match mine. I am highly interested in working with professor Pricilla F. Singleton because of her interest in the impact of separation and divorce on children and their families, and I am also interested in working with Dr. Diane L. Thompson because of her specialization in conflict resolution, affairs, relapse prevention, depression, and anxiety. All of the professors I have seen are dedicated to their fields and I would be honored to work with any of