My future profession is psychology

 

Nowadays when our country is experiencing difficulties in all spheres of life – political, economical and social – and when there is so much tension in society it needs well-qualified specialists – psychologists.

What are psychologists and what science is psychology?

Psychology, as is well-known, is the scientific study of the human mind and the reasons for people's behavior. Hence psychologists are those who study the human mind and explain why people behave in the way that they do. Moreover, psychologists today do not only explain people's behavior but they also help to look for the ways out of many trying situations a person may find himself in.

There are many branches in the science of psychology. Among them are social psychology, experimental and educational psychology, clinical and labor psychology and many others.

The Faculty of Psychology was opened in 1998. Extra-mural students study at the Faculty for five years. In the first year they take general higher education subjects such as Phylosophy, Computers, a foreign language etc.

The senior students are specializing in such areas as management psychology, social groups psychology, stress and rehabilitation psychology etc. For example, management psychology accounts for handling individuals and teams. Good managers are good psychologists – they can handle people, can align and inspire them to work together. In addition they posses managerial authority and can solve numerous psychological problems arising in or between teams. Moreover a real managerial psychologist is always aimed at self-perfection.

Social psychology deals with psychodiagnostics, psychobiography, psychodynamics and some other aspects of psychology. A social psychologist carries out testing of individuals or groups to study people's behavior with particular attention to a person's psychological development, motives and emotions of people's interaction.

A family psychologist is involved in investigations of family conflicts, teenager's problems, including such social illnesses as prostitution, alcohol and drugs addiction, family abuse etc. He can also make up a genealogical tree of inherited disorders and antisocial behavior etc.

A rehabilitation psychologist deals with people who suffered from sexual abuse or became victims of terrorists or experienced traumatic shocks or natural disasters.

That is why our graduates work in different areas including business, social services, nursing, education and health, state or private companies and enterprises, rehabilitation centers etc.

 

@ Notes

 

experience – переживать, испытывать

sphere – сфера

tension – напряжение

society – общество

need – нуждаться

well-qualified – хорошо подготовленный, квалифицированный

scientific – научный

reason – причина

behavior – поведение

hence – отсюда, поэтому

human – человеческий

mind – сознание, разум

explain – объяснять

look for – искать

way – зд. путь, способ

trying – трудный, сложный

find oneself in – оказаться (где-либо)

branch – отрасль

specialize in – специализироваться в…

account for – объяснять (что-либо)

handle – управлять

team – группа, команда

align – объединять

inspire – вдохновлять

in addition – кроме того, вдобавок

authority – власть, авторитет

solve – решать

arise – возникать, появляться

to be aimed at – быть нацеленным на…

self-perfection – самосовершенствование

deal with – иметь дело

carry out – выполнять, осуществлять

interaction – взаимоотношение

to be involved in – зд. заниматься (чем-либо)

drug – наркотик

addiction – пристрастие, привычка

abuse – насилие

make up – составлять

inherited – наследственный

disorder – болезнь

suffer – страдать

disaster – бедствие, катаклизм

nursing – уход (за больным)