3 Websites Everyone in Psychology Should Know About

When you arrive at College, there’s plenty of option open to you when it’s time to choose your program. If you’re interested in the human brain like me, you might find your career in the field of psychology. I am currently studying Social Science at Montmorency College and I already learned a lot about this field that passionate me. I believe psychology gives you the opportunity to understand the illness or reasons besides a lot of behaviour, feelings, and problems. This field is about mental health and the surrounding concepts. In my opinion, the 3 websites that I will show you besides this are extremely useful to consult if you are a student in psychology, a future student or even someone who already working in this field. My listicle will cover the basic concept around psychology and gives you the opportunity to discover many unknown facts about a good deal of mental health disorder or mental issues. His goal is to deconstruct the prejudice about a lot of psychology concepts too frequently considerate as true in our society. You should read if you want to explore many topics before starting your study or if you want to deepen what you already learned.

1. To learn the basic concepts of psychology

//https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat/behavior#concept-intro

This website named Khan academy is the perfect tool to learn the basics of psychology if you want to pursuit your study in this field. By scrolling through this page, you can grow your knowledge on the nervous system, on the human development, on the behavior and genetic, on the psychological behavior, etc. Each of these topics is separated on many more specific. All of these specific topics are explained on an independent YouTube video. For example, the nervous system is treated with 21 concepts, such as the cerebral cortex. It’s a global view of the effect of the human brain, with all his part, on their mental health, which is basically the principle of psychology. I think it’s a most to discover the physical aspects that affect to understand after the mental aspect. This is the perfect way to know if you’re really into psychology by looking at much information on the physical part of this field.

2. To acknowledge the particularity of many mental disorder

//https://psychcentral.com

The site Psych Central is like a scientific dictionary on some of the most common mental health disorder. The explication on each disorder is written by John M. Grohol. He explains where it can come from, the symptom, sometimes the diagnostic, the treatment, how to live your life with it, how to get help or how to help someone who has it. There’s also image and schema to visualize it. I think it’s primordial to understand and to know the more you can about many mental health disorders as possible if you are a psychologist or a future psychologist. The more you know about each one of them, the more you can help and develop empathy to your patient, which is extremely important. This website even provide quiz on many disorders to find out if you might have them and I think it’s an interesting ting tool to use as someone who studies in this field. By doing them, you can see what kind of questions can be asked in a therapy and how the symptoms can manifest themselves in the quotidian of a person.

3. To understand which treatment work better for each mental issue

https://welldoing.org

The Platform welldoing.org can be used to understand the help offered or proposed for some mental health issues many people can have, such as anxiety, relations ship problems, stress and many others. The symptoms are described, some concepts are explained by video and if some way of getting help are really working, like counseling. They explain that many of this issue, depending on the degree, can be treated by a change of element of your lifestyle. On the other hand, some of the issue due need to be treat by going to therapy for example. I believe it’s important for someone who studies in psychology to know which treatment is better for each illness.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the 3 websites that I have presented are extremely pertinent if you are working, studying or want to study in the field of psychology. As seen before, it’s important to know the basic concept of psychology, the particularity the mental health disorder and to understand what treatment the best is for each one of them. After looking at these websites, have you learned important facts about psychology that you didn’t know? Try to identify some concept and their definition. In my next listicle, I am going to talk about the history of psychiatry and how it’s working nowadays.

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