Trident of Knowing, Questioning, and Disproving. RAWR!

1. What is accurate?

• There is a lot of professionalism in the field.
• Lots of private practice.
• There seems to be a lot of cooperation among other healthcare professions.

2. What is false?

• I will not sit in a chair and have patients on a couch.
• I will not be working with children.
• I do not plan to work in or for the military.

3. What am I unsure of?

• Why there are kids always involved in the perception of my profession.
• Why are there all these group sessions?
• Will I have to wear a suit everyday?
• I hope that people don't label me as "soft" or "coddling". I am serious about this business. I am not a buddy, or a friend. I am a scientist that is practicing within the field to make the study of illness and psychology more complete. If people want a "friend" they go to a therapist. I am not a counselor nor am I therapist.
• Making my job separate from my personal life is something I think I will struggle with.

Created vs. Reflected

If anything is created, it is a reflection of another's reality. All created things originate from an idea, and all ideas can be traced back as far as the longest living member of a society. Ideas can be spontaneous, but they originate from fragmented memories that are looking for a way to fit together. Sometimes this assembles itself as a "new idea". If God made man in His image, all of man's actions are influenced down a chain of impossibly long proportions. It cannot be traced, but if one thought about their ideas, and what situations caused cognition, they may find that everything they write, create, or wonder is influenced by direct action within existence. And, in turn, the created products are reflections of the individual's reality, or what they long for. And these images inspire others in their own differing ways. Why is something romantic? Why is giving a bunch of plant sex organs to a woman sweet? Why was cutting off 200 foreskins considered a labor of love to secure a wife for David? These ideas must come from somewhere, vanity, lust, greed, sorrow, and happiness secured through what we know already works.

How have I....Today?

Constructivist

• I enhanced my understanding of media representation in regards to my chosen profession.
• I have assimilated knowledge of what is available into my frame of thinking, while simultaneously accommodating the fact that there is little information from a media point of view, so I must search deeper and more thoroughly for answers.

Feminist

• Women saturate the mental health field, but are under represented in what media that is available.
• I really would be excited to find a woman with similar interests as mine. Being able to discuss the same issues from differing perspectives excites me.
• Women, I believe, are much more nurturing by default, and I could take a lesson from that.
• Knowing how to identify with women, and speak candidly about gender roles/issues would be a valuable asset to my practice.

Themes from Youtube Videos

• There is a real lack of videos pertaining to Clinical Health Psychology
• Psychology is viewed as calm and maybe even coddling
• There is a lot of fun poked at how people are treated
• Men seem to fill the field, but my own experience tells me otherwise
• Interactions are very unorthodox
• All seem to keep cool in stressful situations
• Definite delight in research and finding out new things

The trends are difficult, because of how new the field is. This is a young marriage between medicine and psychology, and they are just now defining themselves.

Pray for the Dead and the Dead Will Pray for You

Behavioral Medicine

Calm, Respected, Understanding, Passionate

Offspring of Medicine and Psychology

Lover of Disease, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Psychoneuroimmunology

Who feels Depressed in a Hospital, Happy at Patient Discharge, Thrilled in the Research Lab

Who gives a comfortable end, a listening ear, and advocacy for the dying.

Who fears losing a patient early, working with over-eager medical doctors, and lawsuits.

Who would like to see thanatology become more widespread, medical school curriculum to include death and dying procedure, and hospice provided through government programs with more quality of life intact.

Who lives alone, with a wife, or with his dog, Blitz.

Clinical Health Psychology

How others view my profession

It is hard to draw something that is obscure to begin with, and the field being new adds another dimension of difficulty to this task. The pictures I received were very spot on for a counseling psychologist, but there was no picture that contained my idea of my profession. I think the individuals did the best they could with what they had.

In every picture, I'm sitting down, most of them had me behind a desk. I can see they understood my desire to help others, but it was in which manner that they didn't know. I do not blame them in the least, because my focus is so very specialized in this choice of calling. Was I offended? I was not. I did see that the stereotype of anything labeled "Psychologist" shone through quite strongly, but it isn't offensive. I appreciate the effort of my peers.

LIII-TUR-A-SEE

Literacy is the ability to understand written, visual, auditory, emotional information. The ability to gain new ideas, and shared common learning. It may be the most important skill to have in this age of technology and communication, seeing as how much of our learning and contact is based upon written text. How literate you are determines how available you can be for acquiring knowledge, and even respect you gain from a society that expects it.