My ideal job

My ideal job would be work in a center of alternative therapy. In this type of job I could do differents types of therapy, por example, treat patients individually, I belive that following the humanistic approach. But this is not the unique type of work that I could be do. I would love to work with reiki, yoga and other complementary therapies.

I think that in the University I have learned only part of the tools that I need to work on this job, the more traditional theoretical part. So I have to learn techniques outside the University, in specialized centers.

Maybe I can be good at this job because it interest me a lot since some time, so I am very eager to learn this type of techniques and work on it.

I think that get this job will not be very difficult because today are more and more people that are searching to have this type of therapies, and they go to this type of centers, at least that´s the idea that I have because I have heard a lot about this centers and I seen they on many websites. I would love to have my own center of alternative therapies, but I think that is a dream. I have to start little by little, to be as professional as possible.

My blogging experience

I think that my experience with the blog has been entertaining sometimes and sometimes not so much, so I enjoyed it when we wrote, for example, about the future, the technological apparatus that we like, or about one picture of our lives, but I do not enjoy a lot when we talk about subjects in psychology, because I think all day here in the University about my subjects and the things that I like of them, the tasks that I have outstanding, or the courses that I should take the next semester, so I prefer to write about another topics to think about other things and divert, forgetting for a while my own career.

Something that I recognize is that the work in the blog helped me with improve my english, because I was not accustomed to write in English every week, so with my blogging experience I was able to practice vocabulary, the times (past, present, future) and the way of express my thoughts in another language and that my ideas are understandable and well written.

I think that some advantages of my blogging experience are:
1) constantly practice writing in English
2) to be in contact with course companions and learn from what they write

And some disadvantages are:
1) talk much about the own career (almost all the times)
2) there are days when I'm not inspired
3) stay up so late in the university, although in reality this is not a problem of the blog, this is a problema with the schedule of the course.

I think that my blogging experience in general has been good, and that this type of methodology are good to learn better and faster how to write in english.

Personally I prefer to work on the blog instead to stay another time in class, mainly because both blocks are followed and Thursdays in the afternoon and I am a bit tired.

A different way of education

In this video, Sir Ken Robinson talks about the extraordinary capacity of human creativity, that is very different in each person. But the problem starts when the education supress creativity, because since the Industrial Revolution, the education had one function; to educate people for work and in this way to increase production, so the important subjetcs where mathematics and language, and the other subjects like art or music, had no relevance.

I think that the concept of intelligence is wrong, because to judge if someone is intelligent or not, we usually measure only the skills associated with work and money, and worse, with tests that do not consider the context where people lives, that influence them in every way. For example, in the case of Chile, with the test SIMCE, that shows biased results.

I suppose and I hope that when the money stop being the central aim in our society, we will all begin to appreciate the different ways of human creativity, and we will have a rich culture, where every profession could be valued. This way, each person could advantage their skills to the maximum, without a supressing education.

Clinical psychology

I think that my favorite subject in this moment is clinical psychology. The professor in charge of this course is Gabriela Sepulveda, a infant-teenage psychologist, and she organized a team of four teachers that also make clases. The reason of why i like this class is the same reason of why it has a team of teachers: each teacher teaches us about a different approach. I like this metodology because in this way i can know a little about every approach, so i can have information to choose the next elective courses, because starting next semester each one choose the classes that will take.

Using this methodology, this semester I've learned about psychoanalysis, humanistic therapy, systemic approach, evolutionary approach and cognitive psychology. Now I could say that I liked most the humanistic approach, because one of the things that called my attention is psychodrama and group therapy, techniques wich I spoke earlier on another blog.

I want to continue learning about this, because in the future I want to work helping people with his personals problems, and I want to offer innovative alternatives for being and feeling good.

Traveling in my mind over five years

In 5 years from now, I want to be entitled as a psychologist, because just left me two years and a half and I hope it goes well. I want to be living near Santiago, for example in Pirque or Cajon del Maipo, for stay a little out of town and be closer to nature. I want to be living with my boyfriend, a friend, or maybe with myself (I have to wait to see what is happening in 5 years more).

Professionally, I want to be working near to my home, or in a small department behind my house, but I dont want to have only one work, depending the specialty that I follow, I could have more than a job. For example, some days I may be working in my home, or in a center of alternative therapies near to my home, and some days go to Santiago and work in a municipality or public hospital, until now, that´s the option I like more.

Personally, I want to live surrounded by people, inviting family and friends to my home all weekends, doing parties or barbecues and spend the time relaxing and doing fun things with them. During the week, I´d like to do other activities besides my job, for example take a course of art...obviously this is an ideal future...But continued dreaming, I want to live a few years in this way, then I want to have a travel time to visit other places in the world, and to continue my studies outside of Chile, and return to start thinking about having children, if my boyfriend wants to, because I love babies =)

Jacob Moreno

I think that a person who contributed a lot of knowledge and skills, in original way, was Jacob Moreno. He was born in Romania in 1889, he studied at the University of Vienna, and he was psychiatrist and psychologist.

Moreno was the founder of psychodrama and one of the inventors of group psychotherapy. Psychodrama is a psychotherapy that is based in the theater of improvisation, it can be performed by one, in pairs or groups. Its aim is achieve a strong contact with the own emotions, feelings, thoughts and fantasies, that not always can be achieved only through the conversation. When a person understands it, will be able to understand some situations in real life and may be better prepared to act on future. For example, if a couple has problems, they perform different events that have occurred.

Moreno contributed a lot in group therapy, in this technique the interactions between group members and the therapist becomes the material wich the therapy is conduced. Along with past experiences and experiences outside the therapeutic group, the problems arise from patients, and may be treated together; generating lessons that can be “translated” to real life.

I like the contributions and the work done for Moreno, because he helped in the creation of new techniques that had never before been applied to psychology. I think this makes him "the best" because it helped psychologists of different approaches (especially humanistic approach) to obtain new tools to address a more profound and innovative people's problems, not to stay in the typical image of the couch and the conversation.

My career

I am studing psychology and I am in third year. I chose study this career because I want to help other people, and I want to complement this work with alternative medicine, like flower terapy, yoga or reiki. I think that this ambit of my career is related with clinical psychology, but a psychologist can work in differents areas and do differents types of contributes to society. For example, a organizational psychologist can work in the companies and help to improve relations, a educational psychologist can help with his knowledge to differents persons in the schools (students, teachers or parents). Moreover, a community psychologist can help to the comunities to organize for solve his problems and maximize their capacities, and a juridic psychologist can work helping victims and perpetrators of crime.

I think that my favorite subject is clinical psychology, because in the future I want to work helping people with his personals problems, and I want to offer differents alternatives for being and feeling good. I think that the tools that I will need to have in the future are some tests, but the principal tool that I need to be a good psychologist is my knowledge of human being. Anyway, maybe my interests may change throughout my career, because every year I learn differents and interesting things.

I think that every type of psychology is very useful in this complicated times.