Being a psychologist for me means doing the most interesting thing in the world! This work is not always easy, but always interesting. She forces you to study and find out all the time the world from different sides.

When a person who seeks help says: “I feel much better!” or "Now I know what I will do!" - I understand that our profession exists for a reason, and I am happy.

For me, being a psychologist is everything! This is a way of life that is chosen consciously and forever.

This amazing profession makes all life experience a professional experience, stimulates continuous daily learning and development as a person.

The result of this activity is positive changes in a person’s life. Favorite profession that benefits others - The Highest Good!

Being a psychologist means becoming a better person every day to improve the lives of others.

To be a psychologist is to open up, to be close, to walk together.

For me, being a psychologist is is to be open to to different parties human life, to be open to the world.

Help people, understand the essence of what is happening, learn new things, stay in good shape, improve your skills.

Being a psychologist is a responsible matter, since a lot depends on every word and action! You need to understand this and often correct yourself, your behavior, not play the role of “almighty”, but simply help as much as possible, knowledge and strength!

I wish everyone to be good psychologists and all the best!

For me, being a psychologist is realizing my purpose.

This is experiencing the miracle of the sacrament of Meeting with Another Person.

This is, while maintaining and increasing your competence, remaining yourself, without mixing the personal and professional.

To be a psychologist is to face the fact that psychology is impossible without the original meaning that was put into this word: without a soul. The psychologist works with his entire Personality with the Personality.

For me, being a psychologist means being able to use my knowledge about the general patterns of thinking, psyche and behavior to help solve each specific problem with which my clients come to me.

For me, being a psychologist is not a mission, it is a difficult, but sometimes very exciting job, when you can be close to a person who finds himself in difficult situation, and try to help him.

I was, to put it mildly, “shocked” that you could solve your problems and the problems of other people. Sometimes in one session!

I love my job! For me, being a psychologist is love! People are so interesting, different, strange, sometimes difficult... but each of them deserves happiness, health and joy. I want to do everything possible for them. It's a pity that sometimes they don't want to!

For me, being a psychologist means my physical and psychological health! How many of my personal problems with childhood, parents, men, children have been solved. I'm still "healing." Every personal growth group held is my personal growth, something new is always opening up...

For me, being a psychologist is a blessing! Yes, don’t be shy - it’s a house, money, and participation in training seminars. I invest money in my professionalism, and it comes back to me a hundredfold. I am grateful to my work and to God for the opportunity to do what I love and receive a reward for it.

And it’s also an endless learning process! Second higher education (psychological), transpersonal psychology, NLP practitioner, existential psychology - these are just some of the methods and directions that last years have become favorites among me and my clients.

And finally, being a psychologist for me is a way of life, the formation of a worldview, positive thinking, creation of new models of behavior, the opportunity to transfer this knowledge to other people, psychologists. The ability to use your personality as an effective tool for helping people, families, children, and groups.

Thank you for this question! I once again had feelings of happiness, satisfaction and pride in my beloved psychology...

Being a psychologist means seeing my client's truly magical transformation from an ugly duckling to a Magnificent Swan. Realizing that I have a direct connection to this process is the most precious reward for me. Thanks to all my clients!

Be able to meet age-related crises with a smile as an additional resource for a new round of life.

To have the opportunity to quite objectively help people who come to us.

At the right moment, be able to accept what happened as much as possible.

Learn to rediscover what seems to be lost forever.

To be able to see in people their positive intention.

From the moment I embarked on the professional path of a psychologist, my life has become more interesting, more eventful, more diverse and positive.

I will take this opportunity and thank all the people who were, are and will meet on my life path: thank you to my parents, brother, husband, son, teachers and my friends for their support and help, and also thank you for trusting those people who see me as a person who can help on their journey in life.

Like other people, among psychologists there are some who are wise and some who are not, but that’s not what we’re talking about. We are talking about another temptation by “superhumanity” - the temptation to play the role of the Great Teacher, messiah, shepherd, guru - a temptation that is all the more tempting because many who come for help are ready to recognize such a psychologist in a psychologist. Of course, there are psychologists who aspire to such a role - as in general, there are enough people who believe that they are the ones who know the main truths of life and call (or even drag) along with them, believing that they are the ones who “know how to do it.” But if anyone knows the truth, it is only the One who is Higher, and self-deification is probably only a manifestation of petty pride and unsatisfied pride. A psychologist is not a priest and has no right to speak on God’s behalf; he does not have the right to impose his own path and his worldview, he can only try to help another see his own - the other's - path or its possibility.

As experience shows, people who come to psychology departments and have not previously undergone special training, as a rule, are, to one degree or another, guided by one or more of the mentioned myths behind the way they formulate the reasons for their professional choice. Most often it sounds like this:

“I want to understand myself better.” The motive is humanly very worthy, but, you see, understanding yourself is not a profession.

“I want to help people.” Very worthy and beautiful - if said honestly. Indeed, a practical psychologist is one of those (but not the only one) who helps others. But what is behind this? Why did you choose psychology? After all, a priest, a teacher, and a social worker help others, And philanthropist, and policeman, and many others.

“I want to learn to control myself.”

“I want to learn how to communicate better.”

"Interesting science."

A FEW PRELIMINARY WORDS CONCERNING PSYCHOLOGY

First, about the term “psychology” itself, which is now found in our everyday language quite often so that its meaning turns out to be very, very vague - and therefore, we need to define it more strictly.

The concept of “psychology” arose at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries; most often the authorship is attributed to the German theologian Goklenius. Etymologically, this word is derived from the ancient Greek "psyche" (soul) and logos (teaching, knowledge, science). It was first introduced into scientific-philosophical (and not theological) language by the German scientist Christian Wolf in the 18th century, and now the most popular translation is "science of the soul".(If in any manual - and, unfortunately, there are some - you come across a phrase like “Psychology is the science of the soul. This definition was given in Ancient Greece" - don't believe it. The ancient Greeks did not use such a word at all.) The concept of “science”, however, in the modern understanding is different from the concept of “teaching” - for science presupposes not only deep reflection and systematic presentation of thoughts, but also special research activities built on the basis of special methods ( We will devote a special section to this later).

Developing at first as one of the philosophical disciplines, psychology then, having adopted a number of ideas from experimental physiology, emerged as an independent science, which set the task of studying the soul, which at that time was understood as consciousness (and consciousness as what a person is directly aware of). This happened at the end of the 19th century, and the symbolic date of birth of psychology as an independent discipline is considered to be 1879, when Wilhelm Wundt opened a laboratory of experimental psychology at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Leipzig, and soon on its basis - the world’s first psychological institute, which still exists today. Soon, similar laboratories and institutes began to open in leading countries of the world (in Russia, the USA, France, and other cities in Germany) - the so-called academic psychology, that is, research psychology, which set itself actual cognitive tasks.

At the end of the 19th century. ideas about the possibility of using psychological knowledge in various areas of practice - in pedagogy, medicine, in organizing work activities, that is, it appeared applied psychology, pursuing not the actual cognitive goals (more precisely, not only the actual cognitive ones), but offering its developments in the form of recommendations for improving various spheres of human activity. At the beginning of the 20th century, another form of psychology began to take shape, aimed at helping people who found themselves in a difficult or difficult life situation - when choosing a profession, when connections with society were broken, during painful emotional experiences; began to take shape psychological practice, which assumes that a psychologist who has the appropriate knowledge and masters the methods of practical work fulfills the client’s request for psychological assistance in one form or another.

Research academic psychology, applied psychology and psychological practice, already developing, as you can see, for a century or more, constitute three main (closely between related) areas in which a professional psychologist can be engaged. We will consider them further.

The meaning of our book appears as follows:

1. Don't tell everything O psychology (which is impossible in principle), but to help you - a future specialist - navigate the main psychological problems and, perhaps, see or outline ways for your own participation in solving these problems.

2. Not just “to charm and seduce” with stories about what a wonderful science psychology is (well, just “the most, the most...” and, of course, “the best of all...”), but rather to “interest”, then is to help the future specialist find his personal meaning in psychology. Only when a specialist finds personal meaning for himself, finds the opportunity to connect his best thoughts and talents With professional activity, one can truly say that he has self-defined himself as a professional.

Professional self-determination can last a lifetime; but how nice it would be to do this while still a student (and maybe even in high school, when many erroneous choices have not yet been made...).

So what exactly is professional psychology? And in general, what is a profession? What does it mean to be a professional? From this And Let's start.

Who is a psychologist? Who is a psychotherapist?

A practicing psychologist is a person who has received professional training in the field of psychology and received an appropriate state diploma. Psychologist working with normal mental difficulties normal people. The psychologist does not solve his problem for the client, but helps the client himself find a way out of a difficult situation.

A psychotherapist is a doctor who has received professional training in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy.

Let us give the most general definition of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy (its psychological model) is help with words that is provided to a person suffering from psychological difficulties.

In our country, a psychologist who has received a higher psychological education cannot formally be called a psychotherapist. But, in essence, a psychologist who has been trained in clinical psychology and has completed a long-term training program in psychotherapy (in addition to a university education) has all the necessary skills to practice psychotherapy.

Thus, the significant difference between a psychotherapist and a qualified psychologist is the presence medical education and the right to prescribe medications. As for professional psychotherapeutic skills, both a psychotherapist and a clinical psychologist who has completed a long-term training program in psychotherapy possess them equally.

A psychotherapist (or psychoneurologist) can use drug therapy together with psychotherapy, or only drug therapy, if the patient has a threat of suicide or has a mental illness. If a psychologist working with a client suspects the presence of these risk factors, then he consults his client with a neuropsychiatrist in order to support psychotherapy with medication. In cases where there is no serious mental illness, medications may not help (or help temporarily) because relieving the symptom by taking pills does not solve the psychological problem. A person’s psychological difficulties can be solved not by medication, but only by psychological methods.

If you still have questions after reading this article, please email me about them. [email protected], I will be happy to answer them.

What are the differences between psychological counseling and psychotherapy?

Psychological counseling differs from psychotherapy in terms of delivery and results. The methods of conducting psychological counseling and psychotherapy are similar: basically, it is a conversation; psychotherapy also uses drawing, playing out life situations, role-playing experiments, working with plasticine, clay, sand and other methods.

The fundamental difference between counseling and psychotherapy is the result of the work. As a result of psychological counseling, the client realizes possible reasons behavior, sees inconsistencies between his behavior and his goals that he had not seen before, the psychologist can give appropriate recommendations. All this remains only at the level of the client’s knowledge about his problem situation.

As a result of psychotherapy, the client receives new abilities and new opportunities to resolve this problematic situation, and, as a rule, during psychotherapy, he changes it for the better and implements the solutions found.

Thus, psychological counseling is only a prologue for further psychotherapy.

How can a psychologist help another person solve his problem?

In post-Soviet society, the services of a psychologist or psychotherapist are still relatively new. Often in difficult life situations, people try to use the advice of friends: “get it all out of your head”, “don’t worry”, “abstract and relax”, and as a rule, such advice does not help much, because it is precisely “forgetting”, suppressing negative experiences leads to their “stagnation”. Only a psychologist can guide the client in such a way that the experience of a traumatic situation is truly completed and not “thrown out of his head.” It is this completeness of a traumatic situation that gives rise to a new meaning for a person. For example: What lessons did I learn from the divorce? What did the difficult experience of experiencing conflict at work teach me? A psychologically competent end to a traumatic situation ensures that a person stops reacting painfully to unpleasant memories and gains the strength to live on, taking into account the lessons learned.

Example: a woman divorces her husband, who has gone to live with another family. This dramatic situation is accompanied by complex feelings of anger at her husband, her own guilt for being a bad wife, fear of how to live alone now, how to build relationships with other men again, despair because she is no longer so young and no one not needed, shame from being abandoned, and so on. Suppressing, “forgetting” these experiences, the desire to “switch”, “throw yourself into work” can lead to prolonged depression, which can last for years. Suppressed experiences will remain in the soul of this woman. What will be the outcome? And ten years later, she will painfully remember her husband’s departure as her greatest misfortune in life, and see this as the reason for her own loneliness, instability, and lack of interest in life.

In this case, working with a psychologist can help a woman fully express these painful experiences, which always leads to a weakening of psychological suffering and a decrease in mental pain. Working with a psychologist, the woman gradually realizes that, despite the fact that this man rejected her, she continues to remain feminine and attractive to other men, she has the opportunity own development, both personally and professionally. She will feel like a self-sufficient person, capable of building her future life regardless of her experiences. psychological trauma. Ex-husband she will remember with gratitude that he was in her life. She will feel grateful that, having gone through this mental test and finally experiencing separation from him, she felt her strength, inner personal integrity, and did not cease to feel like a desirable and attractive woman, capable of starting a family with another man. And the achieved feeling of inner harmony will be one of the most important components of her happiness.

A psychologist, without the client’s knowledge, never uses hypnosis, suggestion, or any other techniques that may have an impact on the client’s psyche. A psychologist helps with conversation, with words, and this is precisely what is the most effective help for a suffering person.

“People benefit only from the truths that they discover for themselves” - these are the words of the wonderful American psychotherapist Irvin Yalom. It is this principle that guides a qualified psychologist who will never advise or decide for a client how to live next. But he will always be with the client in the sometimes painful process of finding a solution. A psychologist can be compared to a climber’s guide in the mountains. The guide never goes through the difficult path to the top instead of the climber, but he suggests an easier and surer path, protects from cracks and steep rocks, and lends a helping hand when he is needed. In the same way, a psychologist will not be able to walk your path for you in the labyrinth of finding the right solution. But, like an obstetrician who helps in childbirth, a psychologist helps a new decision be born with maximum efficiency and speed, and the least painless for the client.

What are the guarantees that the help of a psychologist will be effective and the client will solve his problem?

Imagine that a person comes to see a doctor with a physical illness and asks him if he can give a one hundred percent guarantee of his recovery. What will the doctor answer? Most likely, the answer will be approximately as follows: “I cannot give you a 100% guarantee, since there are diseases from which people, as a rule, are cured, and there are chronic diseases that require constant prevention of exacerbations. Your recovery largely depends on you, on your discipline in performing medical procedures, on your persistence in striving to recover. I, as a doctor, guarantee the creation of those conditions under which recovery is most likely.”

A psychologist, just like a doctor, guarantees the creation of those conditions under which recovery is most likely. And of course, as in the case of medical diseases, when recovery largely depends on the patient himself, success in working with a psychologist depends on the client, on his desire to understand how he lives, on his curiosity about his inner world, on his perseverance.

What do they pay a psychologist for, for talking?

Yes, for the conversation. But this is no ordinary conversation. A psychologist’s conversation has its own characteristics, special warmth and sincerity, warmth and meaningfulness. A psychologist who cannot win over a person during a conversation and instill trust in him can hardly count on success in practical work.

The help provided by a psychologist often comes down to a sincere, frank conversation with the client. Almost always, when talking through or formulating one’s problem in a conversation with a qualified specialist, a person unexpectedly begins to relate to it in a completely new way and understand its essence. Professional psychological help and lies in the art of formulating questions in such a way, of conducting a conversation in such a way that a person can find a way out of a difficult situation for himself. life situation. Consultation with a psychologist is most effective precisely in this case, because the solution, the solution, is found by the client independently, without external pressure or prompting. Accordingly, a person’s attitude towards the solutions found will be more trusting - after all, these are his own thoughts. The famous American doctor, psychologist, psychotherapist Milton Erickson considered this result for a practicing psychologist best indicator the highest degree of qualification.

To an inexperienced observer, the work of a psychologist may seem easy and does not require special skills. But this is illusory ease. Behind the elegance and ease of a psychologist’s work there are always hidden many years of training and practice, hundreds of hours of work under the supervision of more experienced colleagues, a huge amount of literature read, reflections and discussions with colleagues. When working with a client, the right path is not always found immediately. The work of a psychologist is not limited by the time of his direct communication with the client. Very often, after the end of the consultation, there is a thorough analysis of the past conversation, doubts “was everything done correctly?”, sympathy for the client, concern for him. All this is the work of the soul.

Can a psychologist help in one meeting?

Sometimes yes. If only advisory assistance is required, then two or three meetings are sufficient. If a client, while working with a psychologist, wants to achieve a solution to a problem situation, and not gain knowledge of how this can be done independently (but not all psychological problems a person is able to decide independently, even after receiving appropriate recommendations), then longer work is required. Sometimes a series of weekly consultations over several weeks is required.

A person is not able to quickly change in his personal manifestations. For example, a hot-tempered, emotionally sensitive person cannot quickly become stable and control the manifestations of his emotions, and a person who is not accustomed to being aware of his feelings cannot quickly learn to do this. Any rapid changes are superficial and reversible. Therefore, if an adult wants stable changes in his personal characteristics, then this is usually a long-term job.

In any case, the first meeting with a psychologist is always indicative, when two people take a closer look at each other. The client decides for himself whether he can trust this specialist, and the psychologist decides whether he will take up working with this client or recommend him to a colleague who is more experienced in this area. If an agreement on further work is reached, then, as a rule, the first 8-10 meetings are scheduled, after which preliminary results are summed up: what was achieved, what changes have already occurred in the client, what are the client’s further expectations from working with a psychologist, and so on. If after some time the client decides that he is ready to cope with his difficulties on his own without the help of a specialist, then to complete the work (especially if it was long) another final meeting is required, at which the results of the joint work are summed up and comprehended.

Can a psychologist “see” people through and immediately tell a person what his main problem is and how to solve it?

No, It is Immpossible. You should not trust people who offer this kind of service. A qualified psychologist avoids making any diagnoses, much less giving ready-made tips for all occasions. Despite the fact that there are people with similar character traits and personality types, each person is an individual who cannot be read like an open book. A person will never understand another person 100%. And this is perhaps the most interesting thing in relationships, when there is room for surprise at the unique essence of the other.

Can a psychologist answer a client’s question: “Am I normal?”

Very often people are tormented by a secret question: “Am I normal? Is it normal that I suffer so much from the fact that I often cry over trifles / get irritated / offended / scared and so on? Am I normal if everyone around me seems to be happy with life, and only I suffer in my soul?”

The question of psychological norm and not norm is very complex issue, since the boundaries between conditionally normal person, a person with pronounced personal accentuations and a person with mental disorders are blurred and not clearly defined. Very often, the question of one’s own normality arises among people who are well adapted and socialized in society, are active in their professional activities, and achieve certain success in it. But their personal sphere has a number of features. Firstly, they are emotionally more sensitive than the people around them. This means that they are easily vulnerable, more anxious, and more susceptible to stress. And secondly, their level of intellectual development allows them to notice and analyze their actions and the actions of others, compare themselves with others, think about the reasons for the frequent discrepancy between a person’s external behavior and his internal state. These people often need to believe that they have the right to be more emotional than those around them. And in this, the help of a psychologist is invaluable. Since very often people with such a mental organization become psychologists, but due to the knowledge gained and experience of undergoing their own personal psychotherapy, they are able to provide support to those who are tormented by questions of their own “normality”.

Does a qualified psychologist need to have experience in personal psychotherapy and work with another psychologist as a client?

Yes, for efficient work with a client, a qualified psychologist undergoes his own psychotherapy as a client with more experienced specialist. This is necessary so that the psychologist’s own psychological problems do not interfere with his work with the client. This is necessary for the psychologist’s stability when dealing with various difficult experiences of the client. Completing more than 50 hours of your own psychotherapy (50 hours is a weekly visit to a psychologist for an entire year) is a necessary condition psychologist certification upon completion of long-term training programs (usually such programs last from 2 to 3 years) vocational training psychotherapist.

Why does a psychologist, when working with a client, pay such great importance to the client’s self-knowledge?

Why is self-knowledge necessary if many people live perfectly well without it, especially without delving into deep reflection about themselves?

Imagine that a person wants to drive a car, but does not know at all which way to approach it. In order to move in the right direction, you first need to know how the car can move, where the energy for movement comes from. In order to effectively achieve the intended goals, a person must know himself, his true needs (which are not always conscious and clear), his ways of establishing contact with the outside world. This is especially important when there is a slippage, something doesn’t work out, when “I want, but I can’t”: I want, but I can’t find it new job, make peace with a friend, get along with a child, get rid of an acute feeling of loneliness, and so on. Then I need to turn to my inner world and explore what is stopping me from achieving what I want? After all, not only an evil boss, a demanding mother, a capricious child, an inattentive friend are to blame for the fact that my relationship with them does not work out? Something also depends on me, right? And even more: a lot in my life depends on me. Only I am the creator of my own life!

The work of a psychologist can often be compared to the work of a doctor. Just like a doctor, a psychologist is, first of all, guided by the principle “do no harm.” Just like in a doctor's office, strict confidentiality is maintained in the work of a psychologist. The path to recovery from a physical illness may be through physical pain (for example, surgery), also recovery from a psychological illness often lies through the pain of sad, painful experiences. The birth of a new personality is not without psychological pain, just as the birth of a person is not without labor pains. Meeting with heartache(sadness, grief, despair, fear, resentment, guilt) - this is a chance to get rid of it, since only expressed and lived feelings weaken and cease to torment a person.

There is another parallel in the work of a psychologist and a doctor. It is reliably known that the vast majority of diseases are of a psychosomatic nature. They arise not when something is disturbed in the human body, but when the harmony in the human body is disturbed. psychological level. So, against the background of a divorce, a person suddenly develops a stomach ulcer, or a headache begins to ache after a “squashed” conflict, or after a breakup in a relationship with a man, a woman suddenly develops inflammation. The lymph nodes(inflammation also suddenly disappears after working with a psychologist aimed at understanding the painful experiences of parting with a once close person). While the disease has not yet become chronic, when the symptoms have just appeared, the psychologist can effectively help the client realize what traumatic influence from his environment the body responds to with pain. When pain from psychological trauma is suppressed (we were all taught in childhood that we should not worry, show our feelings, should not be angry, offended, envious, and so on), then the body responds with pain, because the body and soul are an inextricable unity, the name to whom - a person.

Discipline: Psychology
Kind of work: Report
Topic: The mission of a psychologist in the education system

The mission of a psychologist in the education system.
IN modern conditions the state does not take over functions spiritual development youth. That's why the school sometimes can't
get involved in this. This is where many psychological problems come from. Therefore, parents need someone who will give answers to questions of spiritual direction in raising children. At school
This is a psychologist.
Who needs us at school and why?
The fact that the school needs a psychologist is accepted as a postulate. At the same time, meetings and conversations with colleagues, the turnover of psychological personnel in education force us to ask two questions:
simple questions: “Why do we need a psychologist at school?” and “Who needs him there?” The topic is not new. IN different time there were articles
Bityanova,
Beglova,
Sartan, Stepanova and other authors. Let's start with the fact that, although psychological services in schools appeared almost twenty years ago, to this day there are no clear
ideas about its tasks and goals. This is well illustrated by the answers of students of the psychology department of one of the Moscow universities to the question of why there is a psychologist at school. The most
Frequent of them - “the child’s lawyer”, “well, to help” - who to \"help\" - do not exactly answer, it seems, to children. Please note that this is what future school psychologists say,
who will start working in a year or two, but whose school experience is still fresh.
School directors and head teachers also have a vague idea of ​​what kind of order can be formulated for the psychological service. Those who are ashamed to admit are quoted phrases about psychological
accompaniment, but when clarifying the request, you are usually faced with the fact that they expect a miracle from you: either you know which button to press so that Vasya turns from a tomboy into an ideal one, or
You can give an indulgence for pedagogical failure.
At the same time, it is adequate if the initiator of contact with a psychologist is the family. And although in content such communication is not much different from
advisory (both in genre and in the sense of an advisory center), but, in the case of mutual understanding between the interlocutors, it is possible to predict good result, since a psychologist
the possibilities are expanded – the child is always before your eyes.
It should be noted that psychologists themselves also have a poor understanding of their role. How the psychological service at school will develop depends entirely on what you are like as a person.
psychologist, what ideas about psychology do the school administration have and how the psychologist and the administration will come to an agreement.
A subject teacher has the right to teach from any existing textbook in his subject, having agreed with the administration, but everyone knows what to expect from him, how can this be
look like what the result should be. A school psychologist can also choose one of the accepted concepts: scientific and methodological guidance of educational
process, providing assistance to children experiencing difficulties or psychological and pedagogical support for the child. So - absolute freedom. And it would be great if it weren't for
gave rise to unjustified hopes among those around him.
So, let’s assume that a child needs a psychologist at school. What can we offer? Our diagnostic tools allow us to identify emotional, personal, intellectual
characteristics of each student and offer recommendations for the optimal development of each student, maximum disclosure, and use of his potential. Only this is necessary, rather,
adults - teachers, parents - know what to do. The child needs more respect, he needs to be accepted for who he is, and not pry into his soul without asking. Survey situation in
school is not always safe for the child and is almost always alarming. If testing is planned, it is almost impossible to refuse it. To whom and how will the results be reported - children too
they don’t always know (this fully applies to services that comply with all confidentiality requirements - test takers do not always know the fate of the result).
In the process of developmental activities, trainings, psychology lessons, we can help students learn more about their inner world, about the characteristics of people, about the relationships between
people and learn to use this knowledge. I think that psychological knowledge, the ability to develop cognitive qualities, communication skills are really what we
we can give it to children. Just how would it turn out to be “Demyan’s fish soup” - this is additional lessons with a fairly large teaching load Do teachers need us? As noted above,
school psychologists are often viewed as some kind of wizards who know “where the button is.” And this expectation is ours Trojan horse. It flatters the professional pride of the psychologist, creates
the trap of realizing one's usefulness can provide a sense of power or hope for cooperation. In such a situation, the teacher unjustifiably takes a childish position, and, like a child, expects that
The psychologist will do everything now, solve all the problems. And - just like a child, he gets offended if he doesn’t see the desired result. If, nevertheless, the result was achieved, then sometimes, as
child, attributes all the credit to himself. A situation in which cooperation is impossible.
At the same time, a psychologist can be useful to a teacher in many ways. Teacher achieves results, psychologist point
interruption of teacher contact with the class or individual students, analyze the reasons and help restore productive relationships.
No matter how true all of the above is, it describes only private areas psychological activity. The problem seems to be that there is no educational
community ideas about the mission of a school psychologist. That is why it is not clear at what time to take the child for examination, when to conduct training with the class, when to study
developmental activities, when to provide psychotherapeutic assistance. That is why we catch him in the hallway, ask the head teacher, negotiate with the teachers to appoint him, to let him go,
so that they give it, etc. The very beautiful and fair task of ensuring psychological health sounds vague, it is difficult to rely on it, because there are no boundaries in sight. That's why everyone
the specialist in his place agrees with the administration what he will do and why.
In addition, the specifics of our work require “following the client”, and the need to take into account the specific needs of specific children’s and pedagogical
collectives will leave room for freedom
You need to discuss this problem with your colleagues: what they see as their mission. Now that enough material has been accumulated, there is great technology and it’s clear what to do and how,
It would be good to return to the question “why?” Determine our place (or his possible options) in the structure of education.
Probably, each of the Russian school psychologists felt their dual (at least) position.
On the one hand, there is an almost explicitly formulated mission: to help every child become the author of his own life.
Therefore, everyone who is engaged in psychological support must first of all be aware of the ultimate goal of their work. And this is closely related to the understanding of the mission
school psychologist. We see it in the organization of an educational environment aimed at the most complete...

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Psychology is a science that helps you be happy. In addition to the tasks and goals of psychology, it has a high mission. What is the main task and mission of psychology as a science?

Psychology is a relatively young science, only a century and a half old. Although the roots of psychology go deep into the past, it was officially recognized as a separate science only at the end of the 19th century, when 1879 year, the German physiologist W. Wundt founded the world's first psychological experimental laboratory. Since then, psychological knowledge has not just been speculative, it has become experimentally provable and confirmed by research.

The very name of science psychology"translated from ancient Greek as "the science of the soul." Ψυχή - “soul”, λόγος - “teaching”.

More than two thousand years ago, Aristotle wrote his treatise “On the Soul”. So the soul became the subject of study of psychology, which was then still part of philosophy. In the 17th century, the concept of “soul” was transformed into “consciousness”. Up to late XIX centuries, scientists were mainly interested in how a person knows and understands the world and himself. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the subject of study by psychologists changed again. Now scientists are interested not in the ephemeral concept of the soul, nor in consciousness, but in the behavior of the individual. Numerous experiments conducted at that time were aimed at identifying the patterns of reflexes, reactions, actions and behavior of the individual.

Today psychology is a science that studies the laws and patterns of development and functioning of the psyche.

Psyche- a function of the brain that consists in actively reflecting the objective world, allowing you to regulate and organize life activities.

Psyche– a subjective image of the objective world. Subjective, that is, belonging to the subject, depending on him, his life experience, worldview, goals. That's why inner world Every person is unique, he is “ mirror”, in which the outside world is reflected and is reflected differently for everyone, depending on how a person sets up his “mirror”.

If the only tool for cognition of the psyche is psyche(after all, even the most accurate instrument readings are still interpreted by a living person), and the only tool for knowing the personality of another person is one’s own personality, It’s not difficult to guess why it can be difficult to understand not only “someone else’s soul,” but also your own inner world.

It’s not for nothing that the ancient Greeks placed a sign above the entrance to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi with the inscription “Know yourself!” Working on yourself is the most difficult, but the most necessary work.

Psychology's mission

Psychology is a complex science, it has many schools and directions. Some of them:

• psychoanalysis
• Freudianism
• behaviorism
• Gestalt psychology
• humanistic psychology
• transactional analysis
• neurolinguistic programming
• transpersonal psychology
• system-vector psychology,
• cognitive and many others.

They all have different approaches to the study of the mental nature of man, define the subject and object of their study differently, and use different methods and methods of working with clients. But together, these teachings form an incredible “mosaic” of psychological knowledge.

In addition to theoretical, fundamental psychology, there is applied and practical psychology, which deals with the application of theoretical knowledge in practice.

Thus, in our time, psychology not only deals with the study and research of the psyche, but also puts the acquired knowledge into practice. There is a theory and practice of psychology that closely interact with each other.

Mission psychology as a science could be defined as the unification of all spheres of human knowledge into a single concept.

The psychology of dough is associated with social, natural, philosophical and even technical sciences.

Knowledge of human psychology is necessary and taken into account everywhere, which is why there are so many branches of psychology:

• general
• pedagogical
• children's
• differential
• social
• age
• clinical
• engineering
• space
• legal
• military
• special
• work psychology
• psychology of power
• organizational
• psychopathology
• psychophysiology and others.

Each of them has its own object and subject of study, goals and objectives, but they all serve for the benefit of one or another sphere of human activity.

Practical psychologists provide psychological counseling, correction, prevention, rehabilitation, education, psychotherapy, and also conduct psychological training.

Mission practical psychologist - Creation optimal conditions to reveal the personal potential of the individual. The calling of a psychologist is to help people.

Problems of psychology

The main task Psychology as a science is the study of general laws and patterns of formation, development and functioning:

• mental cognitive processes(sensation, perception, attention, memory, imagination, thinking, speech),
• states (emotions, feelings, attitudes),
• properties (abilities, temperament, character, motives, goals, will).

It is necessary to study the characteristics of the psyche in order to better understand its nature and learn to manage mental phenomena.

Also as problems of psychology defined:

• studying physiological mechanisms, underlying the functioning of the psyche;
• study of the dependence of the psyche on objective living conditions;
• studying the influence of features mental activity for optimal personality formation and effective interaction between people;
• implementation of acquired psychological knowledge into life in order to increase the effectiveness of various areas of practice;
• improvement mental health people and their overall life satisfaction.

Tasks practical The psychologist working with clients is determined by him independently, and differs in each specific case.

Applied tasks practical psychology are determined by the specifics of the institution in which the psychologist works, most often they include: psychological support for the optimal functioning of the organization, the work of employees, the preparation of training programs, manuals, training and retraining programs, conflict resolution, improvement of the psychological climate, etc.

Both theorists and practitioners of psychology help people resolve various psychological problems, improve personally and improve the quality of life.