...Marc DiSilvio ADP 664 School Psychologist Interview February 4, 2015 In order to complete this assignment I interviewed Carly Wise, the Psychologist for all of McGuffey School District. I asked her a number of questions about her role, and she provided me with thorough answers. • In what ways do you work with students? She assists the students of McGuffey in various capacities. She works with emotional needs students, learning disabled and with the gifted program. She works closely with classroom teachers through observation, consultations with behavior and academic issues, crisis prevention and in the creation of Functional Behavior Assessments. She works with outside agencies as needed. • In what ways are families involved in the process?...
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...INTERVIEW A PROFESSIONAL IN THE FIELD Matthew J. Rick Senior Seminar in Psychology American Military University 09/17/13 Abstract For my interview I came up with several questions pertaining to becoming a Military Psychologist and what the job entails. My goal was to find out what a Military Psychologist does and if it is better to be an active duty Psychologist or a civilian. Throughout the interview I got the impression from the Psychologist that I interview that she loved what she is doing. She mentioned that there isn’t anything else that she would want to do. Over the course of this interview I was able to get all my questions answered and felt that I received strait forward answers and not just what I wanted to hear. Being a military Psychologist entails a lot more than I thought it did however it is still a very intriguing career field. I have listed all the questions that were asked during this interview along with the answers that where given by the interviewee. Where can you apply for a military psychologist job? To become a Psychologist in the Military there are multiple ways to go about it first you can become a Psychologist in the Military by talking to a medical officer recruiter to find out the requirements and to get you started. If you are interested in becoming a civilian Psychologist with the military and already possess a license to practice in the state where the base is located you can apply for jobs on USA jobs website. (Dr...
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...Psychological Autopsies Jessica Foster December 19, 2012 Kaplan University As a police psychologist, you are part of an investigation into the homicide of a high profile community member, the mayor. The information you received from the department is that the victim was found with a single gunshot wound to the head. He was last seen with another notable figure at a nearby restaurant. You learn that before becoming the mayor, the deceased was the chief of your department and was very close to many administrators and officers. Psychologists play many different roles in a law enforcement agency. A psychologist can perform as a consultant for the agency or conduct fitness for duty evaluations. In this paper though, we will be looking at the role the psychologist will play in a murder investigation. The psychological autopsies are becoming popular for psychologists. This paper will go over what an autopsy is, how to do one, what you will put in a report, and the psychological issues that the close members will go through during this time. A psychologist may participate in the debriefing process in an investigation (Kurke & Scrivner, 2007). They will help interview witnesses and can conduct the psychological autopsy (Kurke & Scrivner, 2007). An officer will experience situation that could lead to issues that include the inability to cope or develop post traumatic stress disorder (Kurke & Scrivner, 2007). An officer may witness the death of...
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...Thousands of children each year are traumatized by physical, sexual, and emotional abusers or by caregivers who neglect them. The abuse has a profound effect on the child. With the special nature of these cases, forensic psychologists must use special techniques to take care of the child and case. Section 1: The Forensic Interview and Why it should be used The interview process consists of four steps. The first step is to establish a rapport with the victim through a few methods. Firstly, introduce yourself and provide some basic info about yourself as an icebreaker of sorts and get the victim more comfortable. After introductions, ask some info about the victim in simple terms that the victim can understand. The child is more than likely going to be nervous in an unknown environment talking to an unfamiliar person. The next method is to empathize with the victim. Not only will it make the child more comfortable, the child will open up and provide more information. The interview is more than likely going to be electronically recorded for protection of the victim. The third method is to not ask any coercive questions and ask open questions to expand conversation. (Cheung, 2003). The second step is to get the child’s official statement via open narrative. This is when the child should tell the interviewer what happened in his or her own words. Once this narrative is given, the third step immediately occurs. This step involves questioning the child. There are a variety of questions...
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...The uniqueness we all have is very complex as well as interesting. Psychologists have different techniques for the understanding and explaining the way an individual thinks and acts for each situation in one’s life. The four methods a psychologist use to test our personality. The four are personal interviews, direct observations of behavior, projective testing and objective testing may be used to calculate and explain our personality. The Personal interview is the Psychodynamic Humanistic and Social Learning theory. Psychologists use the test by obtaining information in ways such as conversation, some structured and some unstructured interviews are given. The information obtained is used to evaluate how a person is structured individually. The unstructured interview is more of a spontaneous nature where as the structured interview is a more focused on more structured and specialized material. The structure interview will hence lead the direction of the interview between client and psychologists. Direct observation is the second method used to gather information. The direct observation is conducted thru observing a client. This method is preferred by the Social Learning theory; numerous drawbacks are also a negative draw an individual’s action may could be completely different for everyday life while not being under observation by others. This would not give a true observation for the psychologist to obtain correct observation. The Psychodynamic theory uses...
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...The Function of Psychotherapy in Italian Mental Health Services Rivista di Psicologia Clinica n.2 – 2011 114 Let’ s look back at Giovanna’s Case 2. Here, early diagnosis of depression, first assumed as a problem to be dealt with by a single psychologist, converted later into a relational dynamic involving SPDC and two psychiatrists from CMH. An interesting aspect is that the service tried different ways to keep up the relationship with the patient despite her frequent attacks, and did it by reorganizing its early plans. This aspect can be further explored by revisiting the different phases of the intervention starting from the admission. As we have already said, Giovanna is 31 years old and approaches a CMH following her aunt’s advice, who has noticed she's depressed. The nurse notes down that the reasons why this intervention is requested for are bereavement and weight loss. Ten days later, during her first interview with the trainee psychologist, Giovanna talks about her malaise as a result of breaking up with her boyfriend Roberto. He doesn't accept anymore Giovanna’s behaviours such as her continuous requests on assuring her about their relationship. The loss of both her parents adds to the problem of breaking up, her mother died three months before after a long illness and her father died six years ago by a stroke. Giovanna says that Roberto has supported her to get through and out of her losses and encouraged her to go out and get some distraction. She says she...
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...Running Head: INTERVIEW PAPER Interview Paper Stephanie K. Jones Capella University Abstract This paper is a brief summation of an informational interview conducted with Dr. John Arnold, Director, of the Applied Psychology and Organizational Research Group at Wayne State University; President, Polaris Assessment Systems. Through the interview and some extensive research this summation will provide understanding of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology Specialization and what makes a person successful in the field. Indusial Organizational Psychology Dr. John Arnold Dr. Arnold has over 20 years of consulting experience, primarily in the areas of personnel selection and classification, assessment center design and development, and organizational research. Having directed numerous projects with a U.S., as well as international scope, Dr. Arnold is a recognized expert by many of the Fortune 500. A sample of private-sector clients include: Abbott Laboratories, AT&T, Chrysler, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Harley Davidson, Motorola, Pizza Hut, Spherion Corporation, Starwood Hotels and Resorts (Westins, Sheratons, etc.), and Taco Bell. More recently, Dr. Arnold has focused his expertise developed in the private sector on issues involved in pre-employment in the educational arena. Dr. Arnold holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Bowling Green StateUniversity. He is an active member of the American Psychological Association, the Society...
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...The author will conduct her research method with a survey. The instrument that will be used will be an interview with Zmira King-Elbaz, a psychologist at the Lester B. Pearson School Board. This school board has a fairly large faculty and staff (N= 1000-5000), where the author will have a sample of one psychologist (n=1). It is to be expected that she will be in favour of having the street name changed to Doctor Penfield Avenue, taking into account his contributions to McGill University and more specifically, psychology and neuroscience. Literature Review Wilder Penfield is one of the most famous doctors, let alone neurosurgeons in the world. According to McGill University, the Montreal Neurological Institute was founded in 1934 by Dr....
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...effect on the individual and the society together. The author of this article, John Ruscio is a psychologist who examined a few cases to show how labeling is a challenge for others. Do the mentally ill suffer from social rejection from stigmatization? These case studies give a few examples on the few from both perspectives. He makes good points from his examples, and then in the end shows his perceptions and his advice on how to change this social problem. Pseudo patients and Pseudoscience There were eight mentally stable patients that pretended to act insane and fake their symptoms to be checked into a mental hospital. After diagnosed with schizophrenia, the patients stopped faking their symptoms. When the hospital staff could see the patients “sanity”, they were discharged after a 19 day stay from the mental hospital. The observations from inside of the hospital showed that the labels from the psychologist will remain with the patient for the rest of their life. The “insane are not always insane”, and occasional behavior, will still receive a label of illness in mental hospitals. Patients, Job Applications, and Psychological Disturbance A group of psychologists were asked to watch a muted video tape of an interview occurring. One group was told that the interviewee was a mental illness patient, as the other group was told that the interviewee was a job applicant. When the interview was done, the group with the patient had much more negative responses, then the group with the...
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...Case Study Method by Saul McLeod email icon published 2008 Case studies are in-depth investigations of a single person, group, event or community. Typically data are gathered from a variety of sources and by using several different methods (e.g. observations & interviews). The case study research method originated in clinical medicine (the case history, i.e. the patient’s personal history). The case study method often involves simply observing what happens to, or reconstructing ‘the case history’ of a single participant or group of individuals (such as a school class or a specific social group), i.e. the idiographic approach. Case studies allow a researcher to investigate a topic in far more detail than might be possible if they were trying to deal with a large number of research participants (nomothetic approach) with the aim of ‘averaging’. The case study is not itself a research method, but researchers select methods of data collection and analysis that will generate material suitable for case studies such as qualitative techniques (unstructured interviews, participant observation, diaries), personal notes (e.g. letters, photographs, notes) or official document (e.g. case notes, clinical notes, appraisal reports). The data collected can be analyzed using different theories (e.g. grounded theory, interpretative phenomenological analysis, text interpretation (e.g. thematic coding) etc. All the approaches mentioned here use preconceived categories in the...
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...bumps in the road that may need to help of an organizational psychologist to help put things into a different perspective to the organization. The role of an organizational psychologist is extremely important if an organization or agency desires to look at their workplace environment. Organizational psychology is defined as a field that utilizes scientific methodology to better understand the behavior of individuals working in organizational setting (Jex & Britt, 2008). The organization may seek the assistance from a organizational psychologist to use a systematic, data-based approach by using a variety of forms, such as surveys, interviews, observations, and organizational records to help create a better environment for both the management and the staff to create a better working environment for everyone. Organizational psychology also focuses on the behaviors of individuals within the workplace. Within any workplace there are different types of individuals, personalities and perspectives that may dictate the behaviors of individuals. Individuals have to follow the policies and procedures of that particular organization but each individual still has their own personal views and opinions that may dictate how they behave within the workplace. This may be where the organizational psychologist comes into the organization to help individuals focus on their interactions with one another. An organizational psychologist can help...
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...effectively. Historically, science has enquired as to what makes one person commit a series of criminal acts, whilst others with seemingly similar backgrounds, chose to live their lives within the bounds of legality. McGuire asserts that the psychologist is the best placed to delve into the individual behaviours of criminals and to understand the underlying reasoning to their behaviour, “criminal psychology is the study of behaviours, by analysing it, understanding and sometimes controlling it.” (McGuire 2004) The study of forensic and investigative psychology are devoted to an individual’s behaviour and to the effects that crime and individual criminals have upon the community, not that which involves the law and it’s process. (Popper 1968) James Cattell (1895) chose to experiment on the validity of giving, and the accuracy of testimony, which gave arguably the first empirical data. From this initial study others followed and discovered that witnesses could be greatly influenced by the conditions and suggestibility of the interrogators who took their statements. Both Binet (1900) and Stern (1910) demonstrated that eye witness reports were not infallible and could be influenced. (Gisili and Gudjonsson 1991) Criminal psychologists are significant in eyewitness testimony;...
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...Centre Number | | | | | | Candidate Number | | | | | Surname | | Other Names | | Candidate Signature | | For Examiner’s Use | Examiner’s Initials | Question | Mark | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | | 7 | | TOTAL | | For Examiner’s Use | Examiner’s Initials | Question | Mark | 1 | | 2 | | 3 | | 4 | | 5 | | 6 | | 7 | | TOTAL | | General Certificate of Education Advanced Subsidiary Examination January 2013 Psychology (Specification A) PSYA1 Unit 1 Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods Thursday 10 January 2013 1.30 pm to 3.00 pm You will need no other materials. Time allowed 1 hour 30 minutes Instructions Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Fill in the boxes at the top of this page. Answer all questions. You must answer the questions in the spaces provided. Do not write outside the box around each page or on blank pages. Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want to be marked. Information The marks for questions are shown in brackets. The maximum mark for this paper is 72. Question 7 should be answered in continuous prose. You may use the space provided to plan your answer. In Question 7, you will be assessed on your ability to: – use good English – organise information clearly – use specialist vocabulary where appropriate. (JAn13psyA101) G/T87042 6/6/6/ ...
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...Psychologists use many types of correlation methods of research. These methods are able to help psychologists understand relationships between people and their actions or ways of thinking. Descriptive methods have the purpose of observing and recording behavior and include observation, surveys and interviews, standardized tests, and case studies. Naturalistic observation means observing behaviors in real-world settings. However, much psychological research is conducted in a laboratory, a controlled setting that removes many complex real world factors. Laboratory research has some drawbacks: participants are likely to know they are being studied; the laboratory setting is unnatural; and participants in university laboratory research are unlikely to represent diverse cultural backgrounds. In an interview, a person is asked face-to-face questions about experiences and attitudes. A shortcoming of interviews occurs where participants are not willing to disclose socially unfavorable information about them. In a survey, the respondents read the questions and mark their answers on paper. Tests used to measure an aspect of a person’s psychology and compare the individual’s score with the scores of others are referred to as standardized tests. An in-depth look at a single individual is called a case study. The goal of correlation research is to describe how strongly two or more events or characteristics are related. Just because two events may be correlated, it does not prove that one...
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...Final Exam Social Psychology Professor Anderson-Woodard Alfreda Leonard June 17, 2011 Cognitive dissonance - was originally based on the concept of cognitive consistency, but is now more related to self-concept theory. When people do something that violates their view of themselves, this causes an uncomfortable state of dissonance that motivates a change in either attitudes or behavior. Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding conflicting ideas simultaneously. The theory of cognitive dissonance proposes that people have a motivational drive to reduce dissonance. They do this by changing their attitudes, beliefs, and actions.[2] Dissonance is also reduced by justifying, blaming, and denying. It is one of the most influential and extensively studied theories in social psychology. Observational learning (social learning) - suggests that behavior can be acquired by observation and imitation of others, unlike traditional learning theories which require reinforcement or punishment for learning to occur. Self-perception theory - emphasizes that we observe ourselves in the same manner that we observe others, and draw conclusions about our likes and dislikes. Extrinsic self-perceptions can lead to the overjustification effect. Self-verification theory - focuses on people’s desire to be known and understood by others. The key assumption is that once people develop firmly held beliefs about themselves, they come to prefer that others see them as they...
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