School psychology

Melissa is a 17-year-old female in her senior year of high school who initially presented to Community Impact for services per the insistence and requirement from her parents due to her actions over summer 2016. Over the summer, she had been drinking alcohol excessively and coming home to her parent’s highly intoxicated on multiple occasions. On the 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,…

state of emotional strain that normally results from a demanding situations. Stress can become harmful when it starts to interfere with your everyday life. Crum, Alia, Salovey, and Shawn Achor Rethinking Stress (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) Vol.104, April 2013 pp.716-733 describes about both types of stress. This article is a review of existing research as well as new research. The article breaks down the different types of stress and how it varies among different genders, age…

Alexander, David A, and Susan Klein. “Kidnapping and Hostage-Taking: A Review of Effects, Coping and Resilience.” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 102.1 (2009): 16–21. PMC. Web. 4 Dec. 2015. In this article, David Alexander describes the background, effects, coping strategies, and issues requiring more research of the event of and events surrounding an abduction. The largest studied reactions include the cognitive, emotional, and social relations to a trauma. The main point…

throughout Riley’s conscious and subconscious Joy discovers that Sadness is essential so that Riley can feel Joy. At the end of the movie, Joy and Sadness make it back to the control center and Riley can once again feel her entire range of emotion. As a psychology major, this film really intrigued me. I was a generally happy child like most, but I was also fortunate enough to have parents that taught me that it is ok to cry, get angry, be envious, fear things – so long as I had a balance. On the…

throw at me. I want to help people in anyway that I can because to me that is the most fulfilling feeling in life. I volunteered the Winchester Hospital my whole high school career and volunteering has taught me a lot about the different behaviors of people and how the little things can brighten up a person's day. I want to show my school pride, meet new people, join clubs, and find happiness. That is exactly what Endicott has to offer and will contribute to my success. Majoring…

well as nonverbal communication, specifically microexpression recognition. It is based on my research on bilingualism as well as several of my psychology classes at USD that I have developed a great passion for the topic. Following my career as an undergraduate student, I plan on attending graduate school to further prepare myself for a career in psychology. I plan to conduct research on how bilingualism affects children in order to provide for them an education that takes into consideration…

his Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology at liberty university. He has been attending Liberty University for little over a year now…

grocery store, at school, and in the workplace. The real question is do certain rumors have a traumatic effect on people. Two psychologists created a study to answer part of the question. Pezzo and Beckstead, the two psychologists, wanted to do something that had never been done before. They wanted to create a multilevel study that used two different scenarios to measure levels of anxiety, belief of a rumor, and the rumor transmission. Pezzo and Beckstead both teach psychology classes at the…

singer, become a singer myself, or maybe an actress. Better yet, I thought I could have been all three. As I entered middle school, I realized those goals were too surreal to even become the slightest bit possible, mainly since I am located in an area that most people haven’t even heard of. Back then, I was very uncertain about any career goals I have had. As I entered high school, things became more serious and I started to consider what the best position for me would be. For the past few…

questions in order to help them “support their arguments and to stimulate critical thinking” (liberalartscollegereview.com). All of the courses taught in a liberal arts tradition seem to be aimed at understanding society, seen in social sciences, psychology, or the arts, as well as understanding the natural world, like in mathematics, biology, or astronomy. Getting a liberal arts education is beneficial to students for a variety of reasons. One reason in particular is that it allows students to…