“Psychology is the most interesting of all fields. It’s the most interesting because it’s about us. It’s about the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. It’s about our memory of things. It’s about our dreams, love and hate. It’s about morality, our sense of right and wrong. It’s about when things go wrong as in depression or anxiety. It’s about happiness. It’s about everything that happens to us.” ~ Paul Bloom, Professor of Psychology – Yale University
I am seeking a career in psychology specializing in counseling. As with many sensitive and compassionate people who find themselves driven to pursue a career in this field, my life has been in many ways a response to my own psychological …show more content…
How it works, what motivates it, the emotions, feelings and thoughts that lead to certain behavior. That has always been very exciting to me. When I was younger, probably 12 or 13 years old, I went through a life change. My mother and father were going through a biter divorce. Actually, my father had left my mother and ran off and married his secretary. This left my mother very devastated and she very quickly declined into a serious major depression. I had two older brothers at that time but they had both moved away leaving just me and my mother. For the next six to seven years just my mother and I lived together. During that time my mother had attempted to commit suicide on three separate occasions. I had intervened every time and luckily she was not successful. As I mentioned earlier, it was just her and I in the house. She would work during the day and I would stay with her before and after school. It was at this time that I developed a certain behavior that had a very significant impact on my life. I could not, or did not want to let my mother see what the situation was doing to me so I learned how to hide my emotions and, for lack of better terms, put on a happy face. I believe that this made me grow up very fast and it also shaped my behavior for the rest of my life to …show more content…
As a result I have been through numerous treatment programs from the VA as well as public and private facilities. Again, as I mentioned before, I have gained an incredible amount of practical knowledge in the field. Much of my treatment has involved the following therapies; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to include Mindfulness, Group Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Participating in this extensive lists of treatment has been extremely beneficial not only in learning about myself but I have also been exposed to techniques that has allowed me to gain a great understanding of how beneficial these and other types of treatment are in the process of conducting effective
I am seeking a career in psychology specializing in counseling. As with many sensitive and compassionate people who find themselves driven to pursue a career in this field, my life has been in many ways a response to my own psychological …show more content…
How it works, what motivates it, the emotions, feelings and thoughts that lead to certain behavior. That has always been very exciting to me. When I was younger, probably 12 or 13 years old, I went through a life change. My mother and father were going through a biter divorce. Actually, my father had left my mother and ran off and married his secretary. This left my mother very devastated and she very quickly declined into a serious major depression. I had two older brothers at that time but they had both moved away leaving just me and my mother. For the next six to seven years just my mother and I lived together. During that time my mother had attempted to commit suicide on three separate occasions. I had intervened every time and luckily she was not successful. As I mentioned earlier, it was just her and I in the house. She would work during the day and I would stay with her before and after school. It was at this time that I developed a certain behavior that had a very significant impact on my life. I could not, or did not want to let my mother see what the situation was doing to me so I learned how to hide my emotions and, for lack of better terms, put on a happy face. I believe that this made me grow up very fast and it also shaped my behavior for the rest of my life to …show more content…
As a result I have been through numerous treatment programs from the VA as well as public and private facilities. Again, as I mentioned before, I have gained an incredible amount of practical knowledge in the field. Much of my treatment has involved the following therapies; Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to include Mindfulness, Group Therapy, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Prolonged Exposure (PE), and Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). Participating in this extensive lists of treatment has been extremely beneficial not only in learning about myself but I have also been exposed to techniques that has allowed me to gain a great understanding of how beneficial these and other types of treatment are in the process of conducting effective