Dr. Kaszina, could you share what the income potential for someone in your area of expertise might be? Well, this is a difficult question. I think the earning potential depends on how much work a person is willing to do. There are several avenues; one-on-one, groups, how much free work you are willing to do, which is always helpful for your career. I think it is pretty much the same for all careers in psychology.
Dr. Kaszina, along with providing therapy for clients, you are also an International Speaker, and published writer. On a scale of 1 to 10, how satisfied are you with your career? I think 8, there is always room for improvement.
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Difficult question. Some people are challenges, and some of them speak like a motor mouth, out of control and you cannot get in a word. Those kind of people drive me up a wall, because, even though they believe that they are sharing, all they are really doing is rehashing and rehashing, and staying in a perpetual victim mode. I find that breaking these type of people out of their trance of negativity particularly difficult at times.
Have you ever diagnosed and informed someone that they have a mental illness? No, because I do not treat people with schizophrenia or other mental illness that the DSM describes. I work with a lot of people who according to the DSM suffer from chronic depression. I do not like labels, and all I see is someone who is unhappy, and my job is to help them find happiness again. We limit ourselves with labels, like PTSD, it is something a person has been through, and is not who they are, and diagnosis like these label someone, usually for the rest of their life. I believe people can be emotionally healthy.
Have you ever determined that a diagnosis of another psychologist was incorrect? Yes, I find that there is a lot of sloppy prognosis’s, and I battle them all the
Dr. Kaszina, along with providing therapy for clients, you are also an International Speaker, and published writer. On a scale of 1 to 10, how satisfied are you with your career? I think 8, there is always room for improvement.
Do you have advice for someone entering a career in psychology on ways to avoid burnout, or emotional …show more content…
Difficult question. Some people are challenges, and some of them speak like a motor mouth, out of control and you cannot get in a word. Those kind of people drive me up a wall, because, even though they believe that they are sharing, all they are really doing is rehashing and rehashing, and staying in a perpetual victim mode. I find that breaking these type of people out of their trance of negativity particularly difficult at times.
Have you ever diagnosed and informed someone that they have a mental illness? No, because I do not treat people with schizophrenia or other mental illness that the DSM describes. I work with a lot of people who according to the DSM suffer from chronic depression. I do not like labels, and all I see is someone who is unhappy, and my job is to help them find happiness again. We limit ourselves with labels, like PTSD, it is something a person has been through, and is not who they are, and diagnosis like these label someone, usually for the rest of their life. I believe people can be emotionally healthy.
Have you ever determined that a diagnosis of another psychologist was incorrect? Yes, I find that there is a lot of sloppy prognosis’s, and I battle them all the