Experiences during the first term

My experience during the first term was good, I’ve learnt a lot of things and I got good marks, that made myself feel proud. I studied about specific areas of my career, for example, educational psychology, clinical psychology, organizational psychology, community psychology, forensic psychology and some other general things as english, which I improved a lot. While I had good results, however I end up the term a little bit confused about my vocation, but I’m better right now, at least I’m trying. Despite of anything I had company of my friends Carolina and Constanza, without them everything could be worst.
In my free time I did volunteer work at Teleton, my passion, actually. Working with families and handicaped children, I felt fulfilled and motivated!
I also passed good times with my boyfriend, we hung out, we went to dance and gathered with other friends, we traveled together and we did many fun things.
Some challenges I had to face was the academic load, sometimes I couldn’t do some things that I like most, because I had to study or do many works for university.
The worst thing I had to face was the death of a very dear friend one mouth ago, it was veryhard. Well another bad things were my car crashing and when I had all my documents lost (ID, drive lincence, etc).
Well, I hope I have a better term, but I am happy anyway!

My blogging experience

Honestly my blogging experience was a very interesting experience, it was a new way of learning english that I’ve never used before. It was fun and entertaining too! I honestly enjoyed it, because I could use my imagination and I could explore about topics related to my area. It also helped me to improve my english, of course, because I had to apply more vocabulary, learn new expression while I’m writing, por example. I also felt free to express my opinions about many topics and talk about my plans in the future.

I could talk and develop ideas about my career, It made me reflects on issues related. I could also talk about my favorite areas in psychology as neuropsychology, neurosciences, clinical psychology with children, and so on. We could interact with our classmates and with our teacher too, who gave us feedbacks constantly about our performances and supported us for a better learning, resolving doubts and helping us every time we need.

The main advantages are: this method of learning uses technology as a new way of teaching and learning, actually it helps us to improve our english very much, it’s a interactive, fun, dynamic and innovative method, it motivated me to participate in english class and kept me attentive about the topics we have to write about each week. Some of disvantages are, it takes too much time, sometimes we are very tired this moment of the day and it’s hard to think creatively hahaha (just kidding) well, another disvantage is, we have to be connected always even when you lose a class, because it’s continuously evaluated, sometimes the topics are not so diverse and it gets boring sometimes. But despite of every distavantages I evaluate the blogging experience positively, I liked it and I suggest this method has to keep being applied.

Education kills creativity!

This video is about a conference made by Kim Robinson who sets up the importance of creativity and how tradition education undermines it. He shows his interesting about education and how this topic is one of those that goes deep with people like religion, money and things like those.

He emphasizes children capacity of innovation and how many children have tremendous talents. He talks about the importance of creativity saying that it has to be taken in the same status as education. Another thing that he says is children are not afraid of being wrong, which doesn’t mean creativity is the same as being wrong, he means, if you don’t take the change you may never come up with nothing original, that’s why we should be prepared to be wrong. The thing is, children start losing this capacity when they grow up because education system sees the mistake like the worst thing you can make.

He talks about the hierarchy of subjects at schools which is the same all over the world, mathematic and languages, then humanities and the bottom are the arts and within the arts there’s a hierarchy too, normally music and art are given high status than drama and dance. But then he wonders, why dance is less teached than mathematics? The body has to be considered as the head is considered in education.

In this regard, public education seems to be focused on producing "university professors" who are disembodied and who live in their heads. This is because public education responds to the needs of industrialism. He says that we need to rethink our concept of intelligence, because this is diverse, dynamic, and distinct.

Finally he says he believes that our only hope for the future is to adopt a new conception of human ecology where we can reconstitute the conception of the richness of the human capacity and rethink the principles which the education of our children are based on, and above all thing we should take as a responsibility making children develop their precious gift of imagination.

Clinical Psychology

Well, I like all subjects of my career, it’s hard to choose one of them, but I can say that my favourite one is Clinical Psychology and is teached by a group of teachers who are experts on this area, they are psychologists and psiquiatrists. This discipline is responsible for doing research about all the factors, assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, rehabilitation and prevention concerning mental health, but not restricted to mental disorders, but all conditions that may cause discomfort and suffering on a person. I like it because that’s what I want to do in the future. This subject shows as how important is to know about how to work in a clinic and how to deal with patients. We’ve learnt about function of the clinical psychologist, legal and ethic aspects, psychology in the ambit of heath and educational institutions, preventive and therapeutic interventions and so on. Personally, I’m keen on children psychology and I’ve been able to learn more about it. I love it!!

Travelling in time (and dreams)

First of all I would like to be happy and satisfied with myself and with my achievements in professional area. I will still be very young and probably I will be studying, perhaps doing my specialization in other country… that’s what I would like to do sometimes.
Personally, I don’t know… actually I must confess that I’m quite scare about future, I’d like to be with my boyfriend until then, maybe living with him!! hehe and getting independence from my parents hehe. I will be a children psychologist (I believe! unless I decided to change my career) I will love what I was doing… above all things I will feel that I found my vocation in life.
My ideal future is with my family healthy, living with my boyfriend (happily together, of course), working in Teletón, travelling every year, doing researches and getting fun (of courseeeeee…), I mean happy, fulfilled and learning every day about how to fight in this world and how to be a better person and how to make this world a better place.

Aleksandr Romanovich Luria

In my opinion there’re many important people in my field, it’s hard to say or choose one of them.
Whatever, as it’s known, I like physiological psychology and I can’t not to mention Aleksandr Romanovich Luria. He was born in Russia and he was an intellectual who conducted important research in the field of general psychology, special education, psychogenetic, ethnopsychology, psychophysiology and psycholinguistics. I think he’s the best because he gathers all the element of psychology that I like most… he has contributed to the development of psychology in many ways.
One of his contributions is in the area of neuropsychology; he’s the father of it. He worked with brain injured soldiers from the World War II and he bases his studies on damaged cortical functions, that is to say, language, attention, memory, executive functions, perception, literacy and numeracy.
He studies symptons, localitation of cortex functions, diagnosis… I believe he did a great job! He’s such a genius!

My career, my future...

I’m a psychology student, I study this because when I was younger I started to be interested in this area when I had the subject of philosofy at school, I thought it was an amazing area where you can do many things, but above all things I was interested in helping people to deal with theirs problems and helping them to have a good mental health.
In society we can be agents of changes in many levels, I mean, educational level, communitary level, and helping people to get a better quality of life.
The main tools that we must to have are the ability to contact with the other person deeply, it means, being emphatic, tolerant, comprehensive, impartial, frustration tolerant (you CAN'T save the world, even when you want it from the bottom of your soul), good listener, patient and to know when or how to talk, and one important ability is being strong and not so sensitive, because there’s a cruel reality outside where we will intervene and deal with.
My favorite subject is clinical psychology I like that area, I’m keen on health area and making therapeutic interventions, also I like clinical neuropsychology which treates neurological patients .
I’d would like to work with handicapped children and with their parents helping them in the rehabilitation process either in adaptation process to desease or neurorehabilitation in fact.