Psychologist play important roles in their patients lives. They influence them in positive ways. Psychologist help one better themselves and their lives. A child psychologist affects the lives of children by helping them learn about themselves and their development and help them to understand their social context in school and life. When one thinks of the development of a child, we tend to think of only the self factors and characteristics of the child such as genetics. Child development involves more than just the characteristics from the individual. Environmental factors play a major role in child development such as their surroundings, social relationships and the way they live. How their home life is, how they’re treated in the surroundings they’re placed in everyday life. These all affect a child’s development because if a child is traumatized by a situation his mind and the way he thinks is affected by it. Kendra Cherry states in What is Child Psychology?, “Understanding what makes kids tick is an enormous task so the study of child psychology is both wide and deep. The ultimate goal of this field is to study the many influences that combine and interact in order to help make kids who they are. Using that information to improve parenting, education, child care, and psychotherapy other areas focused on benefiting children.” (Cherry) This helps the professionals, psychologists, who have to have a better understanding on how children grow, think, and behave. A
The lives of children are greatly influenced by the environment they grow up in, and the people they come in contact with. For years, psychologists, researchers, and social workers have studied children, and why they do what they do. All have developed many different perspectives on how to view social problems and the development of individuals.
When an infant arrives in the world they are helpless tiny humans who depend on adults for every need from love, to feeding them. It is amazing how these tiny babies grow into adults able to make decisions and become self-dependent. There are many theories about how children develop and what roles the environment plays, what people affect their lives and how events can shape their personalities. Some of these children have and easy life and some have a harder time making that journey to adulthood.
Children psychologist focus just on child, how their mind develops and why child acts the way they do. To become a child psychologist you must have a doctorate degree. Usually they work with kids that have social or behavioral issues. Some of the issues they can deal with are depression, anxiety or someone with autism. They will help children and young adults learn how to deal with the issue at hand.
Once a child is born and their development continues, then starts the controversy and wonder as to whether how the child is raised effects their outcome in adult hood, or whether they are just born to be a certain way. Child psychology looks into the many different factors that affect the pregnancy and raising a child. Such as, parenting styles, and how the environment (nurture) and the genetics (nature) play an important role in the child’s development.
A child psychologist, specifically working in schools would work with children, faculty and parents to better the overall education experience for the child. It would include but not limit to, diagnosing and treating, managing behavioral issues, administering tests, conducting scientific research on childhood development, and treatment action plans and most importantly ensure the safety and needs of the
In order to develop well as in individual one need to meet certain emotional and physical necessities in life. Physical and emotional development can depend on many factors but with the help of parents, and peers. When these necessities are not meet, the child may have difficulties as adults, either it being from simply being able to socialize with others or forming attachments to other individuals. Environment also plays a huge role as to how a child will develop. Theorist like Piaget and Erickson studies children in order to see how they interact and interpret different situations. Not all children have the same experiences and if they do, their feelings towards those experiences are not the same. The process of development can be seen in the film Closure that is based on the story of an adopted girl looking for her biological parents. A parent is what guide the child to be able to form attachments and developed into the person that they are suppose to be, but ultimately the child is the one who needs to identify who they are as a person in order to grow.
Psychologists are not permitted to write prescriptions so they typically work in conjunction with a medical doctor. Their job is to study and provide different approaches to help individuals deal with mental, emotional or behavioral disorders. By understanding how children develop throughout various stages of their lives, child psychologists are able to determine if help is needed on an individual basis by understand the development of children.
The growth and development of a child is highly influenced by the character of the people around him or her and the environment where they are raised since they easily take the behavior of the people around them. Their psychological development is highly dependent on their experiences and how they are treated by those older than them. The novel The Autobiography of my Mother by Jamaica Kincaid reveal some complications that usually affect children when growing up. Parents play a key role in shaping the lives of their children and the absence of an emotional attachment between them usually leads to psychological problems later in life.
Psychology involves studying the mental functioning and general behaviors of both humans and animals. Social behavior and mental functioning of an individual are explained by exploring the neurological and physiological processes. These include emotions, cognition, perception, motivation, attention, brain functioning and personality. Child psychology is as well stated to be the application of psychological techniques to children where it involves carrying out research on mental states and development of children. The development of the child both physically, mentally and emotionally, with the help of a parent allows the identification of helpful information to any evolving challenges in child’s behavior and
When I started my educational journey, I had absolutely no idea what I wanted to do, so like most college students I “shopped around” until I thought I found my niche. I originally started out in the Criminal Justice degree field and found that I did not necessarily find it interesting. I only took one online class before quitting. Six months later I eventually stumbled upon Massage Therapy. I knew absolutely nothing about the field, I hadn’t even had a massage before, but I fell in love with it and found that I had a natural talent for it and tested out of the hands-on portion very early into the program.
The sorting hating is a fictional artifact that reads the minds of Hogwarts students and assigns them accordingly. Similarly, my career goal as a clinical neuropsychologist is to apply knowledge of brain and behavior towards assessment, diagnosis, and developing treatment plans for rehabilitating patients across a wide spectrum; essentially, a psychological sorting hat. Moreover, I aspire to expand knowledge about brain-behavior relationships in order to improve treatment and understand preventative factors. To me it is a role in improving mental health care and our quality of life. I envision myself working within a private sector, such as a pharmaceutical company, hospital, or university.
Developmental Psychology has widened my perspective and knowledge of the nature of development from humans’ infancy to adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although I have learned about biological, cognitive, and socioemotional processes and periods of development, I am especially interested in socioemotional development in infancy because it is the foundation for a child’s future development. That is to say, if children have a healthy socioemotional development from infancy, they will have a healthy life later on. By understanding the developmental process in infancy, I will be fully prepared when I have children or when my family’s members do.
Psychologists are very important people; they help millions of people with their everyday struggles and problems that they have to deal with. Not only do psychologists help people with problems that they cannot handle on their own, they also are scientists who study human minds and behaviors.
Clinical psychologist can be found in various setting. On television shows, in the news, in magazines and in other sources of Media. One setting I often see them in is television shows. One show I recently stumbled upon was a television show called Awake. The show has been discontinued but I like it a lot. It is about a man who has lost his wife and his son due to a car accident. He however stills sees them and participates in activities with them. He even has seen new people that are not part of reality (psychologist and detectives he works with.) He goes to this one psychologist who he sees in his dreams and this other psychologist he sees in reality. The show however makes it hard to decipher what are dreams and what is reality. You really get to see the world from his perspective.
1 Psychologists are important in society because they can delve into the human psyche to better understand why an individual may behave the way they do. People tend to turn to psychologists when they are having trouble and just want advice and help. I am interested in this career because I take satisfaction in helping people out and would like to be a positive influence in people’s lives.