“Gross National Happiness” is a Bhutan Government plan that evaluates the country progress not considering the gross enhancement, supposing that earning more money will make people happier –in the whole sense of the word-, but according to the Psychological Well-being that people have in their lives. So, they propose to replace “Gross National Product” for “Gross National Happiness”, as a real, effective and representative way for making public policies, and making a better country.
To achieve this objective, they’ve made many researches in Bhutan people, assisted for Harvard and other universities researchers, obtaining results as the next ones I’ll comment:
- “Social support available when having problems”: This indicator evaluates the grade by which people, when have any kind of problematic situations -so they feel sad, worried and eager, and because of that they need a person near to help them-, they feel these person (or those people) are there. In this graph, most of those polled declared to feel social support available “some of the time” (57, 86%), meanwhile almost one third (30, 89%) of the sample said to feel it “most of the time (the happiest or even healthiest people, and just an 11, 25% of the polled ones answered “none of the time".
“Frustration”: This variable describes when people feel unable to reach the goal they’ve proposed their selves and for which they’ve made an effort. In this case, surprisingly a 40 % of the polled ones said they “never” felt frustrated (almost half of the sample), and just a 5% answered to feel frustrated “often”. On the other hand, most of people admitted to have feelings of frustration “sometimes” (56%).
viernes, 25 de septiembre de 2009
jueves, 3 de septiembre de 2009
Article: "My mother doesn't seem to believe that my brother sexually abused me"
Taken from http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/03/private-lives-sexual-abuse
In this article, we're talked about a real -and absolutely terrible- case in which a woman, who's now about to have her first friend, was sexual abused by his older brother seven years ago, and to make it worst, she was also abused by her father. She hasn't wanted to tell us her name for protecting her privacy. When 7 years ago, her father died, she told her mather what her dad did her, but hid her mother the truth about her brother. In that time, the mather became very upset and did not react very well. Now, as she's married, she's got the courage to tell her mother her most terrible secret, but she -the mother- didn't react as the daughter expected, and constantly asks her about dates, etc., in a process in which she's had to remember again her trauma, something very distressing obviusly, and insulting too. Although she understands her mother's position, she feels too bad, and doesn't now where it is going to finish.
This singular and horrible case is too much interesting to me, because gets me close to the Clinical Psychology -the Psychology area which I'm interested in the most-, and allows me think about the strategies to help this woman, thinking of those people's special characteristics that have made the events to happen. The main reason why I chose the career of Psychology was my aspiration to use these knowledge as a tool for helping people, to understand and to explain people's behaviors -and strange behaviors-, and surely when I work in a Clinic I'll see some cases like which I've told about here.
In this article, we're talked about a real -and absolutely terrible- case in which a woman, who's now about to have her first friend, was sexual abused by his older brother seven years ago, and to make it worst, she was also abused by her father. She hasn't wanted to tell us her name for protecting her privacy. When 7 years ago, her father died, she told her mather what her dad did her, but hid her mother the truth about her brother. In that time, the mather became very upset and did not react very well. Now, as she's married, she's got the courage to tell her mother her most terrible secret, but she -the mother- didn't react as the daughter expected, and constantly asks her about dates, etc., in a process in which she's had to remember again her trauma, something very distressing obviusly, and insulting too. Although she understands her mother's position, she feels too bad, and doesn't now where it is going to finish.
This singular and horrible case is too much interesting to me, because gets me close to the Clinical Psychology -the Psychology area which I'm interested in the most-, and allows me think about the strategies to help this woman, thinking of those people's special characteristics that have made the events to happen. The main reason why I chose the career of Psychology was my aspiration to use these knowledge as a tool for helping people, to understand and to explain people's behaviors -and strange behaviors-, and surely when I work in a Clinic I'll see some cases like which I've told about here.
sábado, 29 de agosto de 2009
Starting the second semester.
Hello! So, at the beginning of this new semester –the shortest of the year- we’re asked about what topics we’d like to write about, and I don’t really know what to answer, because I’ve got many. Last semester, we had to write –and discuss- about: “who’s your best friend?”, “why did you choose your career?”, “the best in my area”, and “my favourite subject”, etc.; the commonest matters were already written by me and my classmates in the 3rd level. Anyway, I’d love to go into some of them in depth, for example “your ideal job”, because personally when I wrote about it I’d been just 2 months in the University, and now that I finished the first semester and 1 month of the 2nd one, I’m able to talk about that in a better way.
However, of course, I’d like to propose some topics, so we analyse and discuss them, such as: “what would you change to the University?”, “if you were President of Chile, what would you do?”, “what would you buy with 1 million of dollars?”, “which country would you like to know?”, “will you make a postgraduate?”, “what do you think about Transantiago?”, “would you like to make some investigations after graduated?” , and “your ideal world”, etc. So, definitively, there are many topics we might write about, and I hope so we’ll analyse some of the topics I suggested. Bye!
However, of course, I’d like to propose some topics, so we analyse and discuss them, such as: “what would you change to the University?”, “if you were President of Chile, what would you do?”, “what would you buy with 1 million of dollars?”, “which country would you like to know?”, “will you make a postgraduate?”, “what do you think about Transantiago?”, “would you like to make some investigations after graduated?” , and “your ideal world”, etc. So, definitively, there are many topics we might write about, and I hope so we’ll analyse some of the topics I suggested. Bye!
lunes, 22 de junio de 2009
My Ideal Job
My ideal job, in the Psychology field, it would be to help people overcome their traumas, it can be either working in a clinic or in a "field working", though this last one might mean to approach to the Social Psychology (not just the Clinical one),and helping people that feels to have fallen into the deepest hole, to go out from there so they can find the way to sort every damaging relationship out they've hade and made.
What qualities and skills are needed for this job? Well, I'd really need to be an open-minded person, an analytic skill and the willingness for listening people problems. And, of course, an authentic wish to improve this world, by making people's lives better.
I think I'd really be good at this job, because I usually think of the ways by which living together problems may be solved, and I'd love to be able for, some day, making a big national -and why not- or worldwide change, so it decreases the lots of suffering people (so they realize the clue is in them!).
At least, finding this job isn't really supposed to be difficult, or maybe a little, because the field of the Clinical Psychology is a bit full, but anyway I'm expecting I will in the future, because I'm sure I'll be capable.
What qualities and skills are needed for this job? Well, I'd really need to be an open-minded person, an analytic skill and the willingness for listening people problems. And, of course, an authentic wish to improve this world, by making people's lives better.
I think I'd really be good at this job, because I usually think of the ways by which living together problems may be solved, and I'd love to be able for, some day, making a big national -and why not- or worldwide change, so it decreases the lots of suffering people (so they realize the clue is in them!).
At least, finding this job isn't really supposed to be difficult, or maybe a little, because the field of the Clinical Psychology is a bit full, but anyway I'm expecting I will in the future, because I'm sure I'll be capable.
jueves, 18 de junio de 2009
My Favorite Subject
My favorite subject -and it's not really strange at all- is (General) Psychology, which it's taught by Mr. Wilson.
Why do I like it? Well..., aswering this question it's not so difficult, if that's the career I chose. Anyway, my another subjects are very interesting too (some more than others): Antropology, Psicobiology, etc., but none so much like the first one I said. But what makes Psychology better than the other subjects is the analysis that we make in people, understanding how complex people are, the reasons that might explain their behaviors, and many interesting things, and also the teacher makes a very funny class, in which we can talk about what we're studying, and he's always willing to clear our doubts up.
This semester, we've really learnt too many things, about the following topics: psychological currents, psychological investigation, the human vital cycle development, emotions, etc.
Why do I like it? Well..., aswering this question it's not so difficult, if that's the career I chose. Anyway, my another subjects are very interesting too (some more than others): Antropology, Psicobiology, etc., but none so much like the first one I said. But what makes Psychology better than the other subjects is the analysis that we make in people, understanding how complex people are, the reasons that might explain their behaviors, and many interesting things, and also the teacher makes a very funny class, in which we can talk about what we're studying, and he's always willing to clear our doubts up.
This semester, we've really learnt too many things, about the following topics: psychological currents, psychological investigation, the human vital cycle development, emotions, etc.
viernes, 12 de junio de 2009
So, about the video “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”, in which Sir Ken Robinson talks us about how children’s creativity is killed by the schools (and the society at all), I just can say that I completely agree with him.
I think it's really true the fact that some children (maybe it'd be better to say "many"), who are really able, creative and smart people, are rejected because their intelligence way is not the "standard" or the "winners" one, above all by their school - but more sadly by their own parents-, and anyway by the society, because this is a system problem. In that way, many children (and after teenagers and adults), who might be amazing actors and actress, dancers, singers, composers, sculptors, painters; in short, all the ways by which someone can become an artist, finally can't carry their real vocations out because that's not "allowed" or "correct", and not "profitable" either. And after, when they must choose the career they'll study, they're said "you have to study Comercial Enginnering, Laws, Medicine, etc.", and not Theatre, Dancing, etc. But I really think those activities uplift the soul.
At least, it was a fantastic presentation.
I think it's really true the fact that some children (maybe it'd be better to say "many"), who are really able, creative and smart people, are rejected because their intelligence way is not the "standard" or the "winners" one, above all by their school - but more sadly by their own parents-, and anyway by the society, because this is a system problem. In that way, many children (and after teenagers and adults), who might be amazing actors and actress, dancers, singers, composers, sculptors, painters; in short, all the ways by which someone can become an artist, finally can't carry their real vocations out because that's not "allowed" or "correct", and not "profitable" either. And after, when they must choose the career they'll study, they're said "you have to study Comercial Enginnering, Laws, Medicine, etc.", and not Theatre, Dancing, etc. But I really think those activities uplift the soul.
At least, it was a fantastic presentation.
lunes, 1 de junio de 2009
My Ideal Future
This a topic in which I really think oftenly. In 5 years from today (2014), I'll be recently graduated of Psychology, and I'll have made that last year (2013) my professional practice, so I hope to be working, according with the area in which I'll especialize. Now, I don't know yet which area to choose, but probably I'll select between Clinical or Industrial Psychology, and because of that surely I'll be working in an hospital/psychological center or in an enterprise, but having always as main personal goal to help people for making their life quality better, because that's why I'm studying this career.
Anyway, I want to continue postgraduate studies, becaming, as time spend (why not) even a Doctor in Psychology. Well, as it's a long time until that might happen, I'll say that in 5 years in the future I want to have a very pretty girlfriend -not more than that, I'll be quite young to get marry-, and I'll be living in my current house, but plannig to buy my own car, and I won't lose the contact with my new and old friends. All that will defintively make me happy enough.
Anyway, I want to continue postgraduate studies, becaming, as time spend (why not) even a Doctor in Psychology. Well, as it's a long time until that might happen, I'll say that in 5 years in the future I want to have a very pretty girlfriend -not more than that, I'll be quite young to get marry-, and I'll be living in my current house, but plannig to buy my own car, and I won't lose the contact with my new and old friends. All that will defintively make me happy enough.
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