Students of psychology go through years of college training and on-the-job practical experience before they develop the skills needed to be a psychologist so they can get a chance to practice independently. You know they are spending all those classroom and clinical hours learning how to do the job… but what exactly are the psychologist…
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Clinical Psychologist Salary – How Much Do Clinical Psychologists Make?
Let’s not beat around the bush: a lot of people become psychologists because there are big bucks waiting for you on the other side of your degree program. Yes, it’s true that a career in psychology allows you to help people with real mental health issues like depression and anxiety. Maybe you even get to…
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Counselor vs Therapist: What’s the Difference?
The answer to the question of what makes a therapist different from a counselor depends on why you are asking. If you are someone who needs treatment for a mental health issue, you might not find many differences at all. Counselors and therapists draw on the same body of knowledge and expertise for diagnosis and…
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Understanding Attachment Styles and How They Affect Your Relationships
Attachment styles psychology is one of the most interesting fields for marriage and family therapists to explore and master today. Attachment styles are all about figuring out how people relate to other people. Attachment styles in relationships can make or break that relationship. Incompatible relationship attachment styles have been found to have a strong influence…
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How to Set Professional Boundaries as a Psychologist
Learning how to set professional boundaries in psychology is a tough part of becoming a counselor or therapist. You spend a lot of your training learning how to break through walls with your clients, not figuring out how to put them up. But ask anybody in the field, and they’ll tell you that you have…
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Home School Bootcamp: 5 Easy Steps to Take to Avoid Killing Your Kids Before COVID-19 Does
By Scott Wilson Let’s be honest; if you are the average parent, you probably wanted to kill your kids four or five times a day even before you were stuck inside with them 24/7 for what is starting to look like will be… a very long time. This isn’t going to be like the world’s…
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How We Picked The Top Undergraduate Programs in Sports Psychology
Every sports psychology program is unique. That can make identifying the best a challenge—when there is no broad industry agreement on educational models for sports psych, who gets to make the call about which is best? Our approach is to use good old-fashioned human judgement and a rational evaluation process that returns to the fundamentals:…
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An Unforgettable Memory: How Your Memory Works and Ways You Can Make It Work Better
When we look at a photograph, what do we see? People? A place? Perhaps our most recent selfie? Regardless of the photo, we like to think that we’re gazing upon a memory. In reality, our focus is only on a singular moment in time. The real memory is inside our brains. We can access a…
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Everything You Need To Know About Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Narcissism is a word we usually throw around for people who take one too many selfies or double take when they walk by a mirror or a reflective building. But narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) is a serious psychological disorder that involves patterns of self-centered thinking--but not quite in the way we think. Instead, people with…
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How To Help Those Considering Suicide
We are facing a suicide epidemic in the United States, and throughout the world. Suicide rates are up by 30 percent across the nation since 1999, according to a recent report by federal health officials. That increase comes even as the CDC notes that only about half the people who died by suicide had a…
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