Presumably you're interested in psychology
because you clicked on something and
Here I am. Either that or you made a
mistake but this might actually really
interesting to you. One of the things
that I've found over the past 20 or so
years of doing this is that when people
come here with the intention to study
psychology, they actually know what
psychology is. Psychology is generally
thought to be the person that will
psychologist is someone who sits
opposite another person or people and
helps them sort out stuff. Psychology is
so much more than that. Psychology applies to so many different
areas outside of clinical psychology.
A clinical psychologist is somebody who
understands mental health and mental
illness, who works with people who have
mental health problems, but also helps
with those family members or other
supporting people who live alongside
people with mental health problems. Moreover we work with people to build up
their strengths, to build up resilience
in the hope that we can actually prevent
people from developing mental health
problems in the long run. Psychology as a
discipline is one of the broadest
disciplines anywhere. For you as a
student someone who's interested in
psychology you will find something in
psychology that really fascinates you. Students come into our program for
really diverse backgrounds we've
different strengths and different needs
and they leave our program with
different goals and aims in mind as well.
Some of the skills that students develop
throughout the psychology program
include: In-depth knowledge of
psychological content. Scientific inquiry
and critical thinking. Ethical and social
responsibilities as they apply to
psychology. Professional skills such as
working independently and working as
part of a team. Communication of
psychological content to community and
scientific audiences. And you will learn to  apply psychology to individual interpersonal
and societal contexts. Some students
leave our course wanting to go into
clinical psychology, others leave wanting
to start careers in education, design,
management or advocacy. So when you
finish your undergraduate degree and
you're still enjoying psychology and you
want to continue working in that area
but not as a clinical psychologist, we
have a program called the M.A.P.
The M.A.P program is designed for students who want to take their knowledge in
psychology and apply them to more
leadership, government and management
type roles. So developing these types of
skills are really useful for someone
who's moving into a leadership position
or a management position or wanting to
take psychology into their career to
make the world a better place.
Because psychology is about us, it isn't just about the stuff you learn when you're here.
You'll learn stuff here from prospective
research that's been done, people's ideas,
what we think is going on. You'll leave
the lecture theatre and you'll see it
happening all around you. It doesn't
leave you at all which is maybe
frustrating but it's also something that maintains your your sense of
involvement with the discipline and
integrates into every part of your life.
It's why we like it so much because it's
part of everything that we do. Because
it's everything that contributes to that end point of existing in the
world and where you may or may not have
issues with it. It's everything about
human behaviour right from neurons, how
they connect together and how networks
of them allow us to do the simplest of
tasks all the way up to why people in
groups behave differently than they do
on their own sometimes, why people are
the way that they actually are, and also
what might be going on when those things
break down and the ability of an
individual to live with all the other
individuals around them actually becomes
harder. What we want is for you to come
out of your experience here, valuing the
time that you've spent here and what
you've learned whatever combination that
may be, and then be able to go and use
that in the rest of your life one way or
the other.
Generally as a degree psychology is
incredibly useful for that perspective
because of the things that you will
learn.
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