Psychology & Mental Health

PSYCHOLOGY:

It’s a study of mind and behaviour.

It’s not mandatory for an individual to study the psychology degree to maintain his/her mental health. Instead, people can learn about some of the simple psychological concepts & theories to apply in their daily life.

Psychology helps an individual to unlearn the misbehaviour. It helps to reduce the stress, depression, anxiety, distress, family & marital issues and more. Psychology also helps a student in avoiding the exam fear.

Psychology talks about many things that include how the response of an individual (A) affects/influence the attitude of an individual (B) and how beliefs play an essential role in developing an attitude. I suggest you all to read learning theories, consistency theories and the cognitive-Response approaches to have a better understanding about attitude.

Psychology focuses on the development during infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and oldage.

Psychology also focuses on the personality of each and every person. To have a better understanding about personality, I suggest y’ll to take a look at type & trait theories of personality, dynamic personality theories, learning and behavioural theories of personality and humanistic theories.

Psychology also stresses out the importance of sensory processes, perceptions as well as the memory of people. It also helps an individual to solve his/her problem by making an individual understand the availability of strategies to solve the problem. It also helps people in making a good decision in their life even when in dilemma.

Our life is overflowed with psychology. The tasks which we are performing in our daily life are associated with various psychological concepts & theories. If we have a good understanding in the concepts & theories, we can even help others to overcome the negative events.

If the stress, anxiety or distress persists to touch the peak level, then it turned out to be a major problem called “disorder”. A disorder an illness that disrupts normal physical or mental functions. A disorder is needed to be diagnosed by a professional psychologist or by a professional psychiatrist who’ve an experience in the field.

Some of you might have got a question that how to pursue psychology to help people with mental and psychological disorders and to become a professional in psychology field?. To become a psychologist, one can pursue B.sc./ BA in psychology for 3 years and can go for masters and then the psy.d/phd. Getting a bachelor degree in psychology is the base for all the students to become a psychologist.

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This is the time in which most of you might got a question that who’re psychologists and what will they do?. Psychologists can assess, diagnose amd treat the clients who’re mentally and psychologically ill. They mainly improve the quality of a people’s lives. Psychologists studies the human behaviour and the mental processes by interpreting and observing how people relate to one another and to the environment.

There’re various fields in psychology. They’re,

• Clinical Psychology

• Counseling Psychology

• Child Psychology

• Clinical child psychology

• Clinical neuropsychology

• Criminal Psychology

• Forensic Psychology

• Abnormal Psychology

• Social Psychology

• Health Psychology

• School Psychology

• Educational Psychology

• Developmental Psychology

• Addiction Psychology

• Engineering Psychology

• Medical Psychology

• Industrial/organisational Psychology

• Experimental Psychology

• Applied Psychology

• Sports Psychology

• Community Psychology

• Marriage & family Psychology

• Rehabilitation Psychology, etc.,

There are some divisions of biopsychology that says how to approach the study of memory. They’re,

■ Physiological Psychology

■ Psychopharmacology

■ Neuropsychology

■ Psychophysiology

■ Cognitive neuroscience

■ Comparative Psychology