School psychology

service positions. Not until recently have I been able to find jobs doing work where I feel like I am actually making a difference. A few years back I went back to school in order to get my CNA (Certified Nurse 's Assistant) Certificate. Unfortunately, that did not last very long for me. I had also tried going back to school as a psychology major, but due to some personal stuff, which I will get into in a moment, I am now unable to work in that field. In early 2014 I started a job for a…

Overview Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is a mental health condition that affects children and is characterized by extreme disobedient and defiant behavior towards adults in positions of authority. The first signs typically become apparent before the child is eight years old and continue throughout their teenage years. These behaviors cause a disruption in the child’s normal daily routine. In many cases, children with ODD are also diagnosed with additional behavioral disorders like…

Aggression Psychology Aggression is a range of behaviors that can result in both physical and psychological. Aggression and Violence is usually mistaken for the same thing but it's not the same violence is a physical force and destroys things while aggression is a angry or violent behavior. There is all sorts of aggression for an example Accidental Aggression, Expressive Aggression, Hostile Aggression, Instrumental aggression. The four that I listed above are usually justy seen in children and…

research was a response to the prevailing psychoanalytic approaches to therapy at the time. In his work ‘Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviourist’ published in 1929, Watson believed that behaviourism, ‘Attempted to make a fresh, clean start in psychology, breaking with current theories and with traditional concepts and terminology’ (www.britannica.com). His vision was one of psychology becoming a purely objective branch of natural science, where the only admissible conclusions were those…

personalities, experiences, beliefs, morals, just how much of a person’s individual humanity can he or she consider their own creation? In the field of psychology, there is a debate called Nature vs. Nurture which considers the effects of environmental and hereditary traits on the development of personality. Despite being perhaps the largest topic in psychology, there has yet to be an accurate answer as to how much either Nature or Nurture plays in one’s life, but, there is an underlying debate…

One of my most challenging obligations this semester was being a teaching assistant (TA) for the Introductory to Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Psychology of Aging classes. My responsibilities this semester included, but were not limited to, presenting subject matter to students, tutoring and assisting student individually to help them master assignments and to reinforce learning concepts presented by the professor, distributing tests and homework assignments, and collecting them when…

that each profession requires field experience hours, so I have spoken with my facility’s psychologist about future internship opportunities. After narrowing down my top selections for universities, I will start the process of applying to graduate school to pursue a master’s degree in Mental Health Counseling or Social Work. After graduation, I will take my state boards to become a licensed professional counselor through the NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors) which fee is $195.00 or…

been often mislead when dealing with conflict because they aren’t taking a stand for what they believe is right. Speeches from Martin Luther King Jr., Elie Wiesel, in nonfiction pieces such as “Hitler Youth,” and in website articles from experts in psychology, all emphasize the importance of standing up for your beliefs. That is why standing up for your beliefs is the most effective way to approach conflict, through all the variety of ways in which people can do so. One reason why it is…

imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses. Reason- the mental powers concerned with forming conclusions, judgments, or inferences1.¨ But if we look at what our minds perceive them as, well we need psychology, or the study of the human mind. One psychoanalytic theorist2, Tom Bunn L.C.S.W., says that when the brain is processing between imagination and realism, it’s called mentalization. He says that the ability to do this differs person to…

What’s really pathetic is the lack of understanding and ownership people who don’t have a mental health issue have, and have absolutely no regard for taking ownership of the way they interfere with another person’s life! In order to change the way it affects us, we need to change ourselves and how we view the things that we think and do, that are and are not beneficial for us. When it comes to your medication not taking it or not taking it correctly and not informing your doctor when you have…