Mental health professional

My interest in clinical psychology is reflected through my work experience at the Boys and Girls Club in Reading, PA and as an Academic Coach for Tutoring Services. As a Psychology major, I am able to understand and promote well-being and personal development. As a mentor for the children at The Boys and Girls Club, I made it my duty to make sure that I exemplify the best role model. I enjoy helping children at the club with their homework because they need someone to have patience. I am unaware…

Asking me a question such as why I want to be a counselor only brings up more questions than answers for myself. I feel as if I am in the right place, but I sometimes feel fraudulent with myself. Using the cognitive relaxation/coping techniques, I can tell myself how these feelings are false assumptions and then I realize that I am going into the right profession. I felt inspired to become a counselor when I chose women studies as my minor degree in my undergraduate studies. In addition to…

counselor is to help people to have a better understanding of mental illness. And educated those who does not have mental illness to have a better understand of the illness. As for those who have mental illness needs to know that they are not alone. Because there are so many stigmas that are around and with mental illness. Especially among my culture mental health illness is a taboo and no one want to associate with the person who have mental illness or the person family. They are look down…

Becoming a Clinical Psychologist Part A Becoming a clinical psychologist is one of the common goals that I have with my classmates at Fielding Graduate University. It takes determination, lots effort and motivation to become a licensed clinical psychologist. Before embarking on the journey its important that each person knows each steps that they have to accomplish to achieve that goal. It isn’t as simple as taking an eight-week course to become a Certified Nursing Assistant. There is over a…

longer than four years, but how long; is what I was curious to know. So, I looked some more. Not until I achieve at least a Master’s degree will I be able to actually help people like I want. Then the only job offered according to payscale.com is a mental health counselor. Since I wanted more options I did a little more digging and found that in order to really have a good set of options I would have to achieve my Doctorate Degree (PHD). There are two degrees I am interested in and am still…

this interview the I/O answered many questions that cleared up many concerns that I had about this field. After this interview I found out that I/O Psychologist usually work with people in the workforce, they don’t actually deal with people that have mental illnesses. The basic things that I/O Psychologists do include, working with fortune 500 or private corporations, training and development of current and future employees, new employee orientation, and they help to connect the new employees to…

Behavioral analysts "assess individuals with behavioral problems, study changes the environment has on behavior or implement plans to fix bad behaviors" (Behavior Analyst: Job Description and Education Requirements). Behavior Analysts can work in many departments, whether it is with the police force, FBI, or in any psychology field. They study how the brain works. Behavioral Analysts need a masters degree in a field related to Behavioral Analyzation, in addition they also need to be certified…

In general, both Maslow and Rogers have strongly contributed to what we know today as the world of psychology. Their theories, although with little differences have provided us with necessary knowledge and different of understanding human beings and their potentials. In addition, their contribution in the field of psychology has allowed us in one way or the other to successfully assess our clients in therapy. In terms of the critiques given to each theories based on their ability to generate…

Kimberly Thompson Mrs. Tamah Depriest Preparing for College and Careers 21 February 2017 Forensic Psychologist They will be expected to design correctional programs, evaluate child custody in divorce, Assess witness credibility, or even Advise police on mental illness and criminal psychology. Conclusion Being a forensic psychologist requires the ability to maintain one’s composure under stress, strong oral presentation skills, and critical thinking skills. Anyone interested in becoming a…

to help understand why students are doing well in school. For this task he created a test of 30 questions in order of easiest to hardest to test for judgement, comprehension and reasoning. Three years after that test Binet added in the testing of mental age. In 1908, Binet’s test came to America via Henry Goddard. Goddard introduced the word moron meaning slow. In 1916 Lewis M Terrman created the IQ test, which is still the standard test today. For World War I group testing was used to assign…