Health psychology

a difference and becomes better person. My personality quiz results say that I am introverted, intuitive, emotional and judging. Other career options I was suggested to were Coergy/ or religious worker, teacher, medical doctor/ dentist, alternate health care practitioner, chiropractor, reflexologist, psychologist or, a councilor. Councilors didn't appear in our society till he beginning of the 20th century. It is believed that the…

Lincoln’s Melancholy was a difficult book to read if one has dealt with mental health issues. The book traverses through Lincoln’s Life, and how depression impacted his personal and professional life. Joshua Wolf Shenk goes through major life events as well as smaller events that defined Lincoln and his depression better than some of his time as president. One such instance is Lincoln is coming home from a long, luxurious vacation and he sees slaves singing and dancing. Lincoln is amazed at the…

In a book titled “Psychology and Propaganda”, written by Leonard W. Doob and Edward S. Robinson, the two authors talk about the ways a propagandist (or someone whose career it is to create propaganda) can influence or suggest an idea or proposition to those who are receiving…

referral form filled out by her parents, they reported that they wanted their daughter to have someone to “talk to” about what’s going on with her, as she was remaining distant from them. Prior to seeking services, she has had no history of mental health issues, and on the surface, presents with a seemingly-normative childhood and adolescent development, with no major red flags identified in our…

Cultural differences can lead to differing diagnoses of mental illnesses in more ways than one. While Metzl argues that black patients do not receive the proper bipolar disorder diagnosis because clinicians view their symptoms as being related to schizophrenia due to implicit racism, Emily Martin argues that black patients do not receive the proper bipolar disorder diagnosis because white patients hold a monopoly on the diagnosis. In her book Bipolar Expeditions, Martin argues that clinicians…

goal: psychology. Many professions in the world are linked and intertwined, two of which are psychology and nursing. Psychology is applicable in nursing in multiple ways. The most appropriate way to begin is to give some background to describe what psychology and nursing is on their own apart from each other. Psychology is the scientific…

breaking the laws of doctor/patient confidentiality by sharing this secondary story at all-- which was relayed to me personally in an interview situation with one of my patients. My name is Doctor Simon Kearns. I am a doctor of psychology at Bourkeley institution for mental health in Hexton, Australia. I hope that you don't hold contempt for me, by presuming that I am exploiting my patients case files just for the sake of telling a cheap horror story. I believe there is something genuinely…

Sigmund Freud, the father of psychology and psychotherapy, was a Jewish Austrian medical doctor who lived from 1856-1939. Because of the invasion during First World War, he leaves Austria and spends his last years of life in London. Freud begins his career as a research neurologist. Over the time, he gradually moves into the practice of psychiatry. Funder (2016) states that Freud’s greatest contribution to psychotherapy was ‘’the talking cure’’ (Funder, 2016, p.352). It was absurd for that…

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She is now enrolled in the Counseling Psychology program to become a licensed mental health counselor. In this article, she suggested “many of us have become very dependent on technology as it plays a very important role in our daily lives.” Technology enabled us to strengthen our relationships with our family and…