miércoles, 24 de junio de 2009

My ideal job!

I think I would like to have a job where I could be spontaneous in what I do. I think that's why I like humanistic psychology because you have to see people in their particular singularity, that means nobody is the same, that's why you have to be spontaneous and be free to see each person in her/his singularity, skills and abilities.
If I have a job like this I would have to adopt an attitud called epoche, in phenomenology terms it means that you need to leave all preconceptions about people and to see each one as if you don't know her/him, what they are or what they suffer in clincal terms.
I would be good at this job because is what I like, I think it is what I need in my life and I'm sure I would be able to do this.
I think to find this kind of job it will be difficult because there are just a few opportunities of work and maybe I'll have to take one even if it doesn't have the characteristic that I like.

miércoles, 17 de junio de 2009

My favorite subject

I think my favourite subject is Psychopathology because it has to be with an important area of psychology, clinical psychology.
We have two teachers Luis Alvarado and José Luis Rossi. We learn the theory with Rossi, his classes are so organize and he knows a lot about clinical psychology, also he always tell us a lot of examples about his experience in clinical psychology, that makes his class very interesting. With Alvarado we learn the real experience in clinical psychology because when we have a class with him, we have to go to "El Salvador" hospital, in there, sometimes he brings patients and he interviews them in front of us.
In this subject we have the perfect combination, theory and see the real practice. That's why I like it. Also, I like it because we learn so many things in that class that we will use in our jobs in future. But not all is good because we have to memorize a lot of new terms.
Well, I've learned a lot in this class, clinical terms, real experience with patients and clinical theory.

sábado, 13 de junio de 2009

Creativity and Education

Sir Ken Robinson talks about creativity and education. He explains that education squander children talents, because its structure. This structure is a hierarchy and it has arts in its bottom. That means that education it is not prepared to take children talents and make them grow up. For example, education in present punishes mistakes and that means we are afraid to make mistakes. Been wrong it is not so bad because if you have never been prepared to make mistakes you will never make something original.
So we have to think about what is going on with education in present and education’s fundamental principles. In this way, education has to see children creativity and take the most of their talents, because they are rich in so many ways. Education has to prepare children to see the future by, in Sir Ken Robinson words, “making something of it”.

miércoles, 3 de junio de 2009

My Future!

I think future is so unpredictable that you can't tell for sure what you will be doing in future, but I can tell what I would like to be doing in future or what I expect of my future.
In 5 years from now I would like to be a professional psychologist. I don't know what I would like to work in future, but now I think that physical psychoterapy, group therapy or family therapy are interesting things to work.
Now I like this to work in future, but maybe in a few years I'll change my mind because I don't know enough psychology to say that I would like to do this for sure.
Personally I would like to be married in 5 years from now and have 7 children. That was a joke. Seriously I don't know what I would like to be doing in 5 years from now in personal stuff, but I think having a good partner would be nice.
I would like to be living here in Santiago because I like this city in spite of smog, stress or everythig bad that Santiago has. But I think Santiago has all you can't need for a city, except sea.
That would be my "ideal" future, but it's not for sure.