School psychology

their lives and for me those people are mother, my high school psychology teacher and my bestfriend of roughly eleven years. My mother had raised my brother and I by herself after she divorced my father when I was around six years old where she became the central figure into how I became the man I am today. She would always console me in my times of need, no matter what the situation was she would lend me her support. My high school psychology teacher was one of the few teaching figures that had…

Child Maltreatment and the School Psychologist Viezel, K. D., & Davis, A. S. (2015). Child maltreatment and the school psychologist. Psychology in the Schools, 52(1), 1-8. doi:10.1002/pits.21807 When the historical manner in which children have been perceived and consequently treated is taken into consideration it is nothing short of divine intervention that the human race did not kill itself off centuries ago. We live in a broken world filled with pain and suffering, despair and hopelessness,…

Knowledge from the Field School psychologists play a central role in helping students succeed academically, socially and psychologically. As the population of students that are culturally and linguistically diverse continues to grow as does the need for competent school psychologists. As a school psychologist your role is largely focused on your communication with parents, administrators, teachers and other personnel. The information presented can include, but is not limited to, assessment…

think, psychology is not a type of science, it is because many scientists have studied the behavior and mental process of humans. Julie, among many others, do not think psychology is a science. Unlike Julie, Edward Titchener thinks psychology is a science and should be studied. There are many schools of science, the school where Titchener worked closely is the school of structuralism. John B. Watson belongs to the school of behaviorism. Titchner and Watson have studied humans in psychology.…

Psychology is the study of human mental functions and behavior in an attempt to learn from observation in addition to the ability to predict behavior. The study of psychology can be traced back to the ancient civilizations of the Greece, Chinese, and the Egyptians. Psychology was named during a historical period of Greece. The word was evolved from "psyche", which can be taken to have the same meaning as life. Psyche can be translated many ways however each translation continues to link it to…

careers that require a degree in psychology, and that is far from all of the career options for someone with a psychology degree. Someone with a psychology degree usually is associated with being a counselor but not all of them do. Psychologists are experts in human behavior and that is how they can help others. Of the thirty careers in Psychiatry I will choose four to go over a somewhat: Counseling Psychologist, Forensic Psychologist, Cognitive Psychologist, and a School Psychologist. Of the…

When looking into the history of psychology it is apparent that much transformation took place. After the formal beginnings of modern psychology different ideas began to transform into various schools of thought. They began with the study of the conscious with structuralism and functionalism then moved onto the unconscious with psychoanalysis. Soon the mind was not the center of concentration, the research expanded to behavior with behaviorism and gestalt psychology offered a deeper look into…

alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind." James, a prominent figure in the functionalism branch of psychology, believed that psychology could alter a person’s view of life. Phillip Zimbardo argues in his essay “Does Psychology Make a Significant Difference in Our Lives” that psychology does in fact make a significant difference in our lives. He writes about how psychology has an effect on our lives by virtue of how it has made substantial and creative efforts towards the fight…

Currently, I am majoring in Psychology and Economics at Portland State University. While studying these two disciplines, I have found that I am really interested in the topic of how human’s behavior being shaped under the imbalance society since the resource of the world is limited. And I would like to investigate that how the society and culture impact our mental processes. A personal experience has stimulated my enthusiasm for psychology. One of my uncles was diagnosed as having hysteria. He…

So I had to have the strength to not cancel mid-session and call it a day.” Another question I asked was “which school of thought (theory in psychology) do you apply to your practice?” She answered, “I use Cognitive-Behavioral psychology.” When asked why she told me “Cognitive psychology focuses on the process of thinking or…