Sunday, February 4, 2007

PSYCHOLOGIST IN A SHELTER

Taking a look into the life of a psychologist who works in a shelter for the downtrodden in society.The shelter is made up of people of all walks of life from the abused woman,a drug addict through abandoned elderly people.

A typical day in the life of a psychologist would cover the different people who this psychologist deal with.The interesting part of this is that all these people have different stories to tell about how they ended up overthere at the shelter either throgh their fault or other people's making.

The effects of such social cankers in society as drug abuse, wife battery,child neglect early teenage pregnancy and political and economic neglect and discrimation for political and economic instutions in government or private entities are all factors I would consider in looking at a typical day of a shelter psychologist.

The personal life of the psychologist would be very important to consider in terms of how they see themselves in society.A lot of the times people are easily able to detach themselves from the jobs they do which makes them more capable of being objective.I wonder however that the life of the psychologist and the people they deal with seems to have the tendandy to wear off the "professionalism" and rather look at their jobs with subjectivity.

It has to do with the personal stories of other people which is not very easy to detach from so much unlike working for marketing company in which your goal is to sell and make money and nothing else.

Individual lives of such workers like their families spouses brothers and sisters and parents for example would to interesting to cover because it will go a long way to show that the qualities required to be a mental psychologist or any other kind of pychologist may be easy to apply to clients in a shelter but is it easy when it comes to applying the same principles to their own personal lives.

1 comment:

BreannaVogt said...

During the brainstorming process I too was contemplating doing my observational essay on a psychologist. Do you know a psychologist? Are you taking any courses in psychology right now? I think that wife battery, child neglect, and the other topics that you listed in your blog will be interesting and attention grabbing topic to have in your observational essay. Depending on the situation maybe you can talk to some one who has been charged with child neglect and get their point of view on why they did it. Maybe drugs, maybe they were too young when they had kids and couldn't handle it, or maybe they just didn't want the responsibility.