Like the contradiction between the profession being a helping profession and mostly people in it want to help the patients, but if something happens, like they made a mistake in the surgery or diagnosis, a lot of times the doctors will deny it happening, or maybe wait until the statute of limitations is up, but this is all while the patients are suffering. Do you think this is a difficult research topic or maybe it comes under law or public health research more than psychology.

does anyone know of online volunteer opportunities that may involve research in psychology or related?

thank you!

I’m planning to create a project for my portfolio. My idea is to develop something that can be improved and expanded upon in the future. The project will focus on helping people who struggle to take care of themselves or cope after experiencing very stressful situations (e.g., pandemics, political conflicts, etc.) or those who feel isolated and alone.

The project will primarily involve coding, specifically creating a website.

Does anyone have more ideas? I’m not sure where to start or what kind of project this should be. ( would be great if the project can be done within 4-5 months or less )

I am looking to become a therapist- but also want the ability to do other work within the mental health field as well. Can someone explain if there is any difference in getting licensed to do therapy with these degrees?

I’ve been told that the programs are different- but I can do counseling with either master degree. What are the differences? Is the pay lookout different for two people with different degrees doing the same job? Does a MSW only allow you to do certain counseling work vs clinical mental health counseling?

PLEASE HELP!

What is the most interesting research paper you've read lately that the general public should know about?

Can you recommend me best book on human behavior? I want to learn and use it in my life. Kindly recommend me. Thanks.

Every year this time of year, I start to really feel for my high-O low-C students. Y'all know who I mean: they're passionate, fascinated, smart as hell... and don't have their shit together. At all.

How much should it matter that a student wrote an insightful essay that was actually interesting to read about cognitive dissonance and "Gaylor" fans... but turned it in a month late, with tons of APA errors? How do you balance the student who raises their hand and parrots the textbook every week against the student who stays after class to ask you fascinating questions about research ethics but also forgets to study? I know it's a systemic problem not an individual one, but it eats me every term.

i don’t have any manuscripts or publications yet unfortunately, only papers from my undergrad that are between 6-8 pages (without citations). is that enough? what do i do 😔😭

Hi! I hope this is the right sub to pose my question. I am writing a short paper/essay for my post-grad psychotherapy course and I was wondering if Redditors have some insights or advice on how to approach the topic. The topic of my paper is a comparison of the codes of ethics in gestalt psychotherapy with various other psychotherapeutic modalities.

I am reading through various documents (codes of ethics) and, as expected, they are all pretty much the same. However some of them put emphasis on different areas (such as group setting in psychodrama, physical interventions in body psychotherapy, etc). There are also some interesting routes of thinking such as the ethical treatment of animals in animal-assisted psychotherapy (I would love to find more examples of specific ethical areas such as this one). I am not expecting to find any outright contradictions in these documents, since ethical guidelines tend to depend more on time and region (and the ones I am consulting are all western), but I am hoping to come across some unexpected differences to write about and think about.

• Can you think of any other therapy approaches that have specific ethical considerations that other approaches do not need to concern themselves with?
• Do you have any real-life experiences concerning how different therapy schools treat some ethical guidelines?
• Do you know of any contrasts/contadictions between various ethical codes of different therapy schools?

If you have any insights or ideas about these topics, please share them!

I’ve finally figured out what I want to do with my life and mind, but it is hard to know exactly where to start to put it in motion. It’s scary to start over and take the leaps financially at this age, but my finances already aren’t great and it is far scarier to never do something worthwhile with your life.

I learned over the last couple years that I’m on the spectrum. I didn’t get to have the official diagnosis because they are hard to come by and there was no real point of it at this stage of life in my case. I’ve struggled with an overactive and over intellectual mind my entire life but never found the right lane to make use of it as a superpower.

Now I know I want to give it back in a way that’s useful especially to other people like me. There is a great need for autism diagnosticians from what I can tell and I know I would be immeasurably passionate about the academics and work thereafter.

The struggle is knowing how possible a doctorate is at this age. I guess I’m just hopeful for one person to say, no problem if you want it - you can do it. Someone who knows anyway. Going back and doing a masters doesn’t feel as difficult, maybe that’s a misconception and they are equal with one just taking longer.

Just worry about being able to pay bills while accomplishing my goal. Been 15 years since my bachelor (unrelated field) and I never looked into a graduate degree.

If anyone has any tips to get my ball rolling, I’m usually good at making things happen once I get going. Physics, eh?

Edit: adding a specific question - with an end goal of becoming an autism diagnostician what masters degree programs would you recommend as the stepping stone to the doctorate?

Hi all,

I've been looking at some study ideas for my next article and I'm really interested in a topic that's niche. The researchers that have been researching this topic have a few articles on an obvious direction. They've been calling for future research in this area, but a part of me thinks it's pretty clear that they're just setting up their next article, which I totally respect. I've also heard stories of people working on a study for a long time only to find that someone did the exact same idea and it's in publishing.

Are there any norms surrounding reaching out to researchers to ask "hey, I notice you're in this specialty, I really want to follow up on one of your research questions but I wanted to make sure you weren't already in the process of doing that. What experiments do you think need to be done?"

TIA

Can anyone suggest a reputable, accredited online counseling or MFT (marriage and family therapy) masters program with a part time option? Are there any that would allow me to do the practicum course/supervised hours at an approved site that's local to me so I don't have to travel? I'd be a non-traditional student and would need a program that lends some flexibility. Thanks for any insights!

EDIT: Wow thank you everyone for your comments! I didn't expect to receive so many responses, let alone so well thought-out. This is all very helpful and encouraging and I'll reply to everyone asap.

(Also - I can tell I was being a bit dramatic and I agree I need to think harder about this and do my due dilligence in terms of researching stuff I'm interested in. I was just feeling low last night and frustrated with my course requirements, guess I needed a bit of a perspective shift.)

I’m a MSc psychology student that probably should have gone for philosophy instead, but it is what it is and I’m trying to make the most out of my degree.

Coming from a humanities background, people and human experience are my primary personal, academic and career interest and truly an endless source of inspiration. Works by continental philosophers, Fromm, Adler, and classical and modern psychoanalysts have changed my life.

Unfortunately, I’m having a really hard time engaging with the approach of psychological sciences. The topics covered in my masters and the methods used hardly resonate with my views and interests at all. I do want to do some kind of therapeutic work in the future, though, and that is the reason why I’m still doing this course.

Now, I was hoping I could at least write a dissertation on a topic of my interest, but it turns out I have to do either qualitative or quantitative experiment.

The problem is, things that interest me can’t really be measured empirically (Kantian philosophy, phenomenology, constructivism, psychoanalysis, critical psychology…). Is there anyone with philosophy background that could point me to ways of reconciling these two worlds so that I can at least research something I find meaningful for my MSc dissertation as I’m getting really close to dropping out.

I’m happy to provide more details if needed.

Appreciate any insight.

Today I read that there are people without inner monologue. Me and my friend were thinking how that might work? Since I haven't experienced, it's hard for me to understand how that works. Wondering the daily life experience of people without inner monologue. What happens when they are alone without sensory stimuli?

as the title states, here’s a where i’m running into my problem. i’m graduating in the spring with my bachelor’s in psych and minor in law and justice (not sure exact GPA but I know i’m on the deans list). I want to be a forensic psychologist, I want to work in prisons and interview the worst of the worst humans(simply put). My advisors aren’t the most helpful in guiding my to the right masters program and beyond and i’m starting to feel lost. For the last few months, I was set on a masters program in forensic psychology because I thought that’s what I needed reach my goal, and wasn’t told otherwise by any advisors. After reading a lot of threads in here, I have recognized that’s probably not the case. Basically, I am asking for help/guidance on what masters programs I should look into, what life looks like after (phD, required clinical hours, should I focus more on criminal psychology over forensic), basically any info/advise that you can give me. I’ve done quite a bit of google “research” but usually get a few different options and figured asking those who have been there might be more reliable and insightful.

Edit: my comment about wanting to interview the “worst of the worst” was just a quick comment to try to add to my point and give some background. I have more reasoning to wanting to work as a forensic psychologist, i’m just lost on how the process starts and what the profession looks like as a whole!

It’s an age old question for me and many of my colleagues seem to not really care, unfortunately!

So: Does the final value of a diagnostic test (for example an IQ of 100) make a statement about the comparison of a person‘s skill parameter and the general population or exclusively the sample I chose?

The way I learned it: You are supposed to choose a sample depending on the impact it has on the construct of interest. So, if I do an IQ test with a PhD candidate, I choose „level of education“ instead of „gender“. Because gender doesn’t have much to do with intelligence, whereas education definitely does have an impact.

If this PhD candidate now has an IQ of 100, does this value claim to make a statement about the broader population or is he/she perfectly in the middle of a sample that consists of highly intelligent people, thus having a true IQ of maybe 120?

It being restricted to the sample group doesn’t make sense to me at all - the way I half-understand this: If there’s more people with a very comparable skill parameter, the test can produce a much more precise estimation of a person’s skill parameter (more narrow confidence intervals). The statement it makes about a person‘s skill is still a comparison with a broader population of people, in which the construct is found within a standard distribution.

I‘m working with a schizophrenic patient atm, who is highly educated, yet not very capable cognitively. Depending on the samples I chose (representative sample, schizophrenic patients, highly educated patients), his (very low) values do vary. Now, do they vary because I‘m comparing him with a completely different set of people (which seems not very helpful in most scenarios), or does he fall into differently broad sectors of skill parameters? If he’s among the 3 least capable of the highly educated, I suppose it’s a very rough estimate, compared to him being among the much more common (relatively low) skill parameter of many other schizophrenics - yet expressed through a value that is to be interpreted as making a statement about how he compares to a broad population.

Edit: my question is more about if there’s any new research on social media influencing people to have disorders.

Therapist here. I remember a few years ago when I saw news about kids getting tics from watching influencers who had tics. Several months later I was assigned a kid who also had vocal tics from watching his favorite streamer. After the news came out I remember the amount of influencers who were been showing decreased like crazy. I absolutely remember always hearing about influencers with tics around that but now you don’t hear a peep.

I’m 31F and I use TikTok. I love it for learning information about things I’d never usually come across but im seeing a lot of people repeat things they heard other creators say. Like no more original thought or takes but it’s just repeat of the same take on the newest drama/news.

Theres a few things in the mental health field as a therapist myself that I am concerned about. I won’t say what but I suspect has been influenced by tiktok.

So I’m surprised there hasn’t been more news/updates about the concern of kids catching disorders from social media. But my heads been focused on passing my independent license. So curious for those I respect the most: have you come across any information about social media influencing disorders?

I have been looking into doing a diiploma in counselling but I am unsure what places to go with.

I'm considering studying at Kirana College, Health Courses Australia and maybe Australian Institute of Professional Counsellors.

I don't think I'll be able to get a help loan so my options are limited to what I think I can afford.

What is the reputation of the places I mentioned? Are they respected in the industry and what is the likely hood I'll get a job after my studies?

Hello I was hoping I could get some advice. Relocating is not an option for me right now but I have been trying to get any psych research position that becomes available near me. A year ago I interviewed with a PI from a university near me for a research job in their lab. I thought the interview went horribly he did not seem to like me and asked questions I wasn’t really prepared for. Now a year later the same position is posted for his lab and I have applied again and emailed him but have received no reply and it’s almost been a month. I’m starting to feel really discouraged I was wondering if anyone had any advice on what I could do

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to pursue an MSc in Organisational Psychology with the ultimate goal of transitioning into consultancy. My goal is to eventually open my own consultancy and offer companies interventions in areas like change management, leadership training, and organisational development.

Here’s a bit about me:

• I’m based in the UK.
• I’m currently a senior recruiter, so I already have hands-on experience with talent management and organisational challenges from a people perspective.
• Due to my location and circumstances, finding a BPS-accredited MSc program has been challenging so far

I’ve been researching online, but I keep finding mixed messages about how important BPS accreditation is for someone with my goals. I know it's needed for people who want pursue chartered psychologist status and that it helps with credibility, but I am not sure about the extent of how much it matters to employers.

For those of you in the field or with experience: How important is BPS accreditation to find work in Organisational psychology - especially in consulting roles?

And if you have any general advice on navigating this transition would also be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance for your insights, I’m eager to hear your thoughts. :)

Hello all. I'm looking for a study that may have been mentioned in a newspaper or magazine article that referenced some obersvational study wherein men and women were allowed to mingle and then 'select' a partner. This study was used in reference to how a person knows they've "found the right one" when the process of mate selection is sequential and typically without recourse. I recall a few other details I can share, but wondering if any of you are familiar with a study of this kind? Or perhaps the article? I believe the conclusion was that selecting 2nd or 3rd choice mate yielded optimization of choice and happiness. Thanks for any leads, most of my searches turn up crappy comso-type magazines, haha.

As the title says, what can write about when discussing a study that found no significance? I've already made plans to write about flaws in the design, limitations in software and sample, the results, and possible improvements future that can be made if the study were to be reconducted. My professor also did advise me to write about the strengths, but I can't identify any besides possible improvements for future research.

Hi everyone! I’m conducting a research study to explore how different environments, like classroom wall colors, impact high school students’ focus and creativity. As part of my study, I’ll be running after-school activities like arts and crafts (for creativity) and riddles (for focus).

I’d love to hear your ideas on simple, practical ways to measure focus and creativity during these activities. Are there any tools, techniques, or observation methods you’d recommend? The only ones I have in mind right now is the The Guilford Measures: measuring a person's creativity and measuring the time it takes to answer a riddle for focus. Please help!

Hello!

I have my associate's in design and am about to start on a bachelor's in psychology. I am considering a master's in policy.

My interests lie in data for human behavior, UX design, journalism, education and public policy.

Does anyone here have a combination of Design and bachelor in psychology and what are some niche career paths I could take?

Thanks in advance.

Hello everyone,

I have been trying to find a original pdf file of the book "Etude de la répresentation sociale de la psychanalyse" by Serge MOSCOVICI ,but i cannot find anywhere on the internet. Can you people try to help me out please.

Hi everyone,

I’m currently pursuing an undergraduate degree in English, but the experience has been deeply unmotivating and, at times, traumatizing. I often feel overwhelmed by the expectations to interpret and analyze literary texts in ways that don’t resonate with me. I find myself memorizing material to get through exams rather than engaging with it, and the constant comparison to peers who seem genuinely passionate about the subject has made me feel inferior.

The academic pressure has taken a toll on my confidence and mental health, and I’ve started questioning whether this path is right for me. I entered college hoping for a fresh start, but instead, I’ve felt stuck and increasingly disconnected from the field.

Recently, I discovered a strong interest in psychology, which feels more exciting and meaningful. I’ve started taking an online psychology course and feel like this might be a better fit for me

I would appreciate advice on:

1. How to decide whether to stick with English or transition fully to psychology.

2. The challenges I might face in switching fields at this stage.

3. Any personal stories from those who have faced similar dilemmas and successfully transitioned to a field they’re passionate about.

Thank you for taking the time to read this—I really value your guidance and perspective!

Hi, I need to preface this by saying that I do not know research well, it has never been a strong point and considering the last few weeks even if I somehow did manage to convince myself it would work out, it is currently not working out hence here for advice. I was looking to do a thesis on how moral distress or moral injury may impact the self competency of trainee therapists with the moderating role of moral resilience, the problem is whatever literature I have came across till now, it is majorly qualitative and I have a hard time giving structure to my idea or whatever this is at present. I am still going through the literature but I will be honest it's only causing more confusion so if anyone can help, it would be much appreciated, thank you and have a wonderful day.

I am developing a dissertation study looking at mental health interventions for individuals with disabilities. I am struggling to understand the difference between an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis methodology, a Phenomenological Research Methodology, and a Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research Methodology and which I should use. Also trying to determine if IPA is harder than the others. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm looking for a good model of the brain for teaching its parts and functions. It's hard to tell from a few Amazon photos how good these models are. Does anyone have a particular brand or company they have purchased from and feel is accurate (to the best of our current understanding)?

What is the most effective approach to teaching? Should teachers try multiple methods or stick with one that has proven to be successful?