The profession of psychologist
by Анастасия Вертинская
1. To work as a psychologist, you must graduate from high school on the following specialties:
1.1. Psychology,
1.2. Clinical psychology,
1.3. performance psychology
2. What should you go through to become a real expert in the field of psychology?
2.1. constant practices
2.2. trainings
2.3. seminars
2.4. methods to improve the specialist skills
3. The principal obligations of the psychologist:
3.1. planning and performing tests for various characteristics;
3.2. interpretation of the results of the consultation;
3.3. support communication with family and friends customers, or their managers and employers for advice and recommendations;
3.4. consultation and therapeutic conversation;
3.5. preparation of scientific and practical information and reports;
3.6. keep everything confidential.
4. Psychologists can work in:
4.1. preschools;
4.2. school;
4.3. clinic, hospital;
4.4. educational institutions;
4.5. private companies;
4.6. dispensaries, children's centres.
4.7. in private offices of psychological assistance
4.8. Successful therapists are also invited to work or just to act on TV, on the radio, in a major publishing house.
4.9. any organization as human resource manager (HR)
5. Knowledge of a psychologist will also help in:
5.1. the advertising business
5.2. in politics
5.3. in law
5.4. in daily life
6. Personally, I want to be a psychologist, because:
6.1. I really like to listen to people and understand their problems.
6.2. My personal qualities meet the requirements of the profession (at least I try to make it so)
6.3. I love people and how different they are
6.4. I can listen, empathize and support (according to my friends)
6.5. I want to help people see the situation from the outside, help them to look inside themselves and find resources for recovery and exit from a problem situation.
6.6. I believe in the prospects of the profession
7. why psychologist is a promising profession?
7.1. Psychology – this is the art of communication, understanding, support and assistance. this will always be necessary for society.
7.2. stress and various psychological shocks are usually the case , and a society will always need professional support.
7.3. the more humanity develops , the more it suffers psychologically
7.4. need to study the cognitive processes taking place in the human brain.
7.5. the human brain is a mystery for scientists
7.6. any person wants to develop. The specialist helps people use their own internal resources for both personal growth and career development.
7.7. In the coming years, the need for psychologists will only grow.
8. who is a psychologist?
8.1. -Psychologist is a specialist, which performs research and corrects the mental state of a person.It provides assistance in various spheres of human life:
8.1.1. problems of adaptation and contact with others
8.1.2. problems in the relationship.
8.1.3. personal problems
9. the history of the profession and the etymology of the word.
9.1. origin of the word
9.1.1. Greek word
9.1.2. two Greek roots: "psyche" means"mind" and "logos" means "study."
9.2. the emergence of psychology
9.2.1. originated around 500 to 300 B.C.
9.2.2. -started with 3 main Greek philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle as a branch of philosophy
9.2.3. came into being as a scientific discipline by the establishment of first Institute of Psychology in 1879 at Leipzig in Germany by Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920).
9.3. what psychological schools have been formed?
9.3.1. Structuralism
9.3.2. Functionalism
9.3.3. Behaviorism
9.3.4. Gestaltism
9.3.5. Psychoanalysis
9.3.6. Humanistic school
9.3.7. etc.