More and more people, due to some personal experience stumble at the profession of Clinical Psychologist (a helping profession). Such specialist work with psychic energy, which is in every person, it is only the question of hard work to find it or develop.
Free Online INTRO Course on Clinical Psychology. Before entering this theme try to taste the science course (link). University of Houston: Prof. Edward Sheridan (a total of 60.25 hours, language: English). The lecturer in details describes the main concepts of the Clinical Psychology as quite a specific area, that is more like an aspiration.
Where to work:
- Health care system - if patients could visit a clinical psychologist, as much as they wanted the total healthcare expenditures would fall. The patient is always coming to physicians with a headache
- High-rank CEO consultations - Consultations to business. When the decision is done by a person dealing with billions, the risk is high. CEO should have such counselors, or to be a specialist, knowing the true position of authority
- Specialists on work with minorities. In Globalization time, minority students with diploma of a clinical psychologist have the chance to take their part in the life of society
- Military specialist - how to handle postwar symptoms, in recruit the right people for right positions
- in Schools and Universities (working with gifted youth)
Be prepared to:
- practice a lot - min 25 % of study time
- continuously study and read symptoms in psycho-social relationship
- think out tests to uncover defense mechanisms
- work in group and follow professional etiquette
- stay in trend by visiting conferences on your specialization
- meet Freud closer and learn psychotherapy
- discover conscious and unconscious sides (yours and then others)
- learn to teach people to self-regulation strategies (self-monitoring)
- meet Freud closer and learn psychotherapy
- discover conscious and unconscious sides (yours and then others)
- learn to teach people to self-regulation strategies (self-monitoring)
As a clinical psychologist:
- you will be prescribing medicine to ego diseases
- you should follow the oath to Hippocrates to help the depressed patients
- find the way to cope with reaction opposition through denial
- cure hallucinations, hysteria, neurosis, intimacy lack, alcohol abuse
- will encounter religion and faith questions
- you will try therapies (e.g. client-centered therapy)
- you will make clients reflect on their deeds, thoughts etc.
- work with patients with suicidal thoughts
As the consultant with psychological education:
- you will learn how to understand an experience and use it in an advertisement, work, managerial work etc.
- you will use the notion of maturity, esteem to work on
Remember:
- people do not change very easily (e.g. curing bulimia)
- a successful person is always in progress
- an environment can easily influence their behavior
- optimistic patience lives longer
Conclusions
Like in the course of eating the appetite is growing, so after this introductory lecture, you will find new spheres of psychological aspects to get even deeper. Enjoy learning, it raises the quality of life or even encourage your true hidden identity. Positive psychology will even do better for you.
In those countries, where the social welfare and mental state are placed on high stakes, a lot of financial funds are given on training and courses for clinical psychologists. If you hold real deep knowledge, proved by practice you will be in demand of a quality government and nonpublic organizations, medical institution or educational institution.
- you will be prescribing medicine to ego diseases
- you should follow the oath to Hippocrates to help the depressed patients
- find the way to cope with reaction opposition through denial
- cure hallucinations, hysteria, neurosis, intimacy lack, alcohol abuse
- will encounter religion and faith questions
- you will try therapies (e.g. client-centered therapy)
- you will make clients reflect on their deeds, thoughts etc.
- work with patients with suicidal thoughts
As the consultant with psychological education:
- you will learn how to understand an experience and use it in an advertisement, work, managerial work etc.
- you will use the notion of maturity, esteem to work on
Remember:
- people do not change very easily (e.g. curing bulimia)
- a successful person is always in progress- an environment can easily influence their behavior
- optimistic patience lives longer
Conclusions
Like in the course of eating the appetite is growing, so after this introductory lecture, you will find new spheres of psychological aspects to get even deeper. Enjoy learning, it raises the quality of life or even encourage your true hidden identity. Positive psychology will even do better for you.
In those countries, where the social welfare and mental state are placed on high stakes, a lot of financial funds are given on training and courses for clinical psychologists. If you hold real deep knowledge, proved by practice you will be in demand of a quality government and nonpublic organizations, medical institution or educational institution.
Film to watch at evening: Stonehearst Asylum 2014, Experiment Psychologists mentioned in video lectures: Z. Freud, Erich H. Erikson, C. Rogers, A. Maslow, B.Skinner, A.Bandura, A. Beck, M. Seligman,M. Csikszentmihalyi
What is more, the Psychology can prove your everyday life with simple applications (no advertisement purpose).
New technologies allow making people life easier and healthier. Follow the video on the theme: How virtual therapy could help fight PTSD (Gale Lucas and Skip Rizzo of the USC Institute for Creative Technologies explain their big idea behind a computer named “Ellie” that has the ability to identify people at risk for PTSD. It’s called virtual therapy).
Does it mean that the future of human in the role of the therapist can be substituted by machine? Who knows (more readings). If you have free time, here is the bunch of psychology topics on MIT base.
Spheres in which you as a professional psychologist can work (link)
Spheres in which you as a professional psychologist can work (link)
