mardi 23 février 2016

How to use cmha

http://www.cmha.ca

How to use www.cmha.ca to search topics related to psychology and mental health?

Cmha.ca

The Canadian Mental Health Association was founded in 1918 by Dr. Clarence, M. Hincks and Clifford W. Beers and it is one of the oldest voluntary organizations in Canada. They promote the mental health of all and supports the resilience and recovery of people experiencing mental illness. This website could be helpful for students because it's going to help them with their mental health. It is not as simple to do as measuring our physical health. This website identify areas where your level of mental fitness could be improved to help you cope with all of life's up and downs.  

How to use www.cmha.ca to achieve a psychology test

In this video, I will do a walkthrough demonstrating how to do a psychology test on www.cmha.ca.



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jeudi 4 février 2016

3 reasons to study in psychology

3 Reasons to Study in Psychology


There's a lot of very interesting programs in my college. I am a student from Ahuntsic College and my program is psychology in Social Science. I choose psychology because since I was a little girl, I love to analyze people to understand what are in their mind. I can't say that everyone like psychology, but I think that every person should study a minimum about psychology. Why is that so? There are 3 reasons I would suggest studying in my program : you will know a lot more about yourself, it can help you with people and you can help others.

1. You will know a lot more about yourself

First of all, psychology is the study of mind and behavior. Psychology search to understand individuals and groups with principles. Lucky us, we are humain and psychology study how people works ! How wonderful. If you are following me, you can now understand that with my field of study, you can know more about yourself. It can help you personally to understand yourself. For example, you can control some things in your life by understand it and then find a way to solve the problem!

2. Help with people

Second of all, if psychology helps you to know you better, it can help you with other people! If it works on you, it works on everyone. Psychology explore concept like interpersonal relationships, with that you can know more about how to communicate better with others. For example, if you are a shy person, and you don't have a lot of friends, with the psychology you can manipulate people to become your friend! How magic is that? For another example more serious, it happens that we don't understand some reaction of our friends or family, psychology will help you to understand those attitudes.

3. Help others

Third of all, you can help people and we all know that being kind makes others happy. Depending on your interest, you can become a psychologist! There are a lot of choices in psychology, you can help a lot of type of people, people with mental health problems like relationship problems, addiction, learning disabilities, mood disorders. Also, you can help children, teenager, old person and even animal. You can help those king of people with treatments such as therapy, counseling, or medication.

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Conclusion

In conclusion, if this blog post convince you to join my field of study you should talk about psychology and give back to others (donner au suivant). Psychology will help you to develop a critical mind and maybe see the world with another view.