I’ve always been intrigued by psychology. It is all around us in our everyday lives whether we realize it or not, or ever really think about it. Most people tend to think of psychology as being a therapist, or having to go to therapy, or as someone who has a mental illness and need to go see someone to help with it. Therapy is only a small percentage of what psychology really is, and therapy is only a subcategory under an extensive list of several types of psychology. We even did an entire blog on the different subfields of psychology that we as individuals thought we would most like to have a career in. This was a fun assignment because we really had to think about ourselves and what aspects of ourselves could we use in the field of psychology. I kept going back and forth between a few, but the more I assessed myself, which is another part of psychology is self-assessment, the more I realized what I would love to do if I was in the psychology field, and what I thought I would be abl...
This past week I got to experience a lot of active listening, and it wasn’t even for the assignment, but I used the techniques described to us in all of those conversations that I had. I had to do a lot of listening this week because I got put in between two friends who were having a dispute and didn’t want to directly talk to each other so I became their “owl.”🦉 I learned a lot about being an active listener in this situation because not only did I have to understand what they were saying and feeling because that’s what you should do when you are listening to someone and trying to be an active listener, but I also had to take this information pull out the parts the other person needed to receive and give it to them. I had about 3 conversations with each of them that were back and forth, I also had other one on one conversations with them, but not about this situation. I always try to be an active listener, because if I'm talking to someone I would want that from them as well....