Challenges in my Discipline

Hello my friends!! I’m going to talk about some important challenges that my career is facing at this moment. These are challenges that we have as psychologists in many areas, such as technology, social matters, education, etc.
I’m going to start with technology issues. Technology can be defined in few words as the application of science, in that terms we can us our science (Social and clinical science) to create new technology. I think that our principal challenge in this area is to create new instruments to evaluate in more effective ways (in clinical psychology). For example a few days ago in a psychological congress a presentation talks about the need of develop an instrument to evaluate child depression.
In social matters the psychologists have many challenges too. Sometimes we face the fact that we don’t make any real difference intervening one person. Actually we have to work on an entire community to make a real change. So the challenge is how to create plans to intervene a big community. Also in social psychology there is another challenge, how to truly represent people’s speeches. This is a really important task for psychologists because lend us to elaborate more efficient interventions.

Psychology has an education area too, and it has really big challenges. Educational psychology is the study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations. Education psychology works with educational establishments and with government to create educational policies. Educational psychologists work in teacher educational programs, intervening child with social disorders, solving classrooms conflicts, etc. For example, a big challenge in this area will be to eradicate bullying from classrooms.

Like in any other professional area challenges are constant in psychology, thus the real big challenge is how to affront this and how to reach the best solutions. Challenges are included in the psychology student profile, so we have to get used to it,

Thanks for reading.

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