The Importance Of Profession In Psychology

While working with this group of high school teens it help me to see a harsh reality that society has unintentionally created. While working with this program Push 100, it really helped me to see how important my Profession in psychology will be, which as time goes on I would like to a specialize in Teen counseling. The main technique that I observed from facilitating this small group of 5 girl who were high school sophomore that struggled with eating disorders, was how important cognitive distortion is to individuals. Also, known as self-talk amongst the upcoming generation. Cognitive distortion means that if there are commercials telling individuals that they are a better person if they become smaller then that becomes how the individual will think. According, to psych central psychologist John Grohol says that “Cognitive …show more content…
Also to be care of we give our attention too. After listen to who these younger girls say who they look up to as images of beautiful it really helped me to see reality through their eyes. They idolize women like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, and Real Housewives all of these women have the necessary means to buy beauty. This also taught me that they only see beauty from the outside and not the inside. Which shows me why they think that only smaller framed women are considered the ideal woman. This made me think out the self-acceptance exercise which required each girl to stand in the mirror and call out all of the things that they do not consider pretty and then have to say but I here and forever I will love you anyways. This ended up being a very emotional exercise but it was one that had the most impact on everyone including me. This helped to understand that no matter what I will have to love myself. It also helped me see that after I pointed out all of my flaws that there are still some great things about