Clinical psychology

outstanding years I will leave Lincoln with a Bachelor of Science degree, and two majors in Psychology and Biology. After graduating in May I plan to attend medical school. Once those four years are complete I hope to be accepted into a four year psychiatric residency program, and finally become a licensed psychiatrist. The best decision of my life was coming to this university, followed up by the decision to take psychology of aggression during my first semester. It was in this class that my…

Psychology is an amazing and important science which involves studying the mind, brain and behavior of human beings or animals (Lilenfeld, Lynn, Namy, Woolf, Cramer & Schmaltz, 2014, p. 5). There are many benefits to studying psychology such as, learning and knowing how to use all six aspects of the Scientific Thinking Principle. This principle outlines the form of thinking that we should be using in everyday life that allows us to accept scientific information, but not without evaluating it…

individual who is reputable within the psychology realm. He is a well known Mental Health Professional who became a household name after Oprah Winfrey recruited him in 1998, to work on her show in the early 90’s. Since then he has broke out into a very well known TV personality who hosts an ossortment of people with different problems. He graduated from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Four years later, he obtained his PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North…

titled On the Decline of Projective Techniques in Professional Psychology Training in the North American Journal of Psychology. Piotrowski identified the Rorschach Ink Blot Test, sentence completion methods, and the Thematic Apperception Test as some examples of projective assessments in the field of Psychology (Piotrowski, 2015). The author shares how projective testing and assessment methods have been an accepted approach in Psychology for the past 75 years. However, there has been a decline…

Thus, in 1926, Carl Rogers once again changed direction and transferred to Teacher’s College, Columbia University in (which happened to be just across the street!) where he enrolled in the clinical psychology PhD program. He studied alongside Leta Hollingworth, who was a leader in the child guidance movement. In 1928, Rogers moved to Rochester, New York, where he interned at the Institute for Child Guidance and was one of three psychologists to be offered a position at the Child Study Department…

children 's clinical psychologist because I 've got fist hand experience with troubled youth (being one myself), being able to…

Clinical psychologists work to diagnose and treat clients with mental issues and disorders (careersinpsychology.com). This would be an ideal career choice for me because it allows me to help people directly and play an active, influential role in people's lives to make life better for them. Organizational Psychologists study human behavior in the work place and help businesses establish ways to make the workplace a more productive, positive environment. (apa.com) This career would be…

During the 1940s and 1950s, psychology experienced a complete transformation that incorporated massive amounts of research and discoveries that had been accumulated earlier in the decade (Haggbloom 139). The aftermath of World War II lead to a demand for psychological services which fueled this transformation by giving psychologists the opportunity to put new methods into practice (Street). Author J.D. Salinger, known for his work The Catcher in the Rye, was one of the soldiers who experienced…

In beginning my journey with Capella, I chose the degree path of Clinical Psychology with specializations in Clinical Counseling and Sex Therapy. However, now that I am at the end of my degree path, I have made the decision to drop the Clinical Counseling component of my degree. This will mean that I will not complete my practicum at the Masters level and therefore I will be ineligible for licensing at the state level until I complete my doctoral degree. American Association of Sexuality…

is natural that most fields of psychology focus on curing mental illness. However, healing these disorder only reduce the negative state of mind, it does not make a person happy. For the people who are not suffering from an illness, being normal does not help them flourish or become more fulfilled. This is why a new field of psychology has emerged: Positive Psychology. This field…