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17-12-2018, 09:59 PM

cgtweb Wrote: you might no my brother in law kyle northey he has problems and is struggling in college, he is doing a mixture of 3 courses to help him decide which one he wants to do full time, wow man such a rewarding career, I done psychology as part of my access to nursing but I imagine not as deep as yourself

I know many people who took on the AtN course. To my understanding, it had a relatively detailed module on psychology - of course not as in-depth as a full psychology course, but interesting nonetheless

Sadly I don't know your brother. I mainly assist those going through with Math, English, Science etc.; mainly the core/mandatory subjects of the choices given in HS.

17-12-2018, 10:04 PM

Swine Wrote: I know many people who took on the AtN course. To my understanding, it had a relatively detailed module on psychology - of course not as in-depth as a full psychology course, but interesting nonetheless

Sadly I don't know your brother. I mainly assist those going through with Math, English, Science etc.; mainly the core/mandatory subjects of the choices given in HS.

It was pretty intense, I passed tough but must admit I did not expect it to be so hard when I applied, I might as well of gone straight to university lol, Cardiff met did not do the paramedic science course I wanted to study afterwards and I would of had to go to Swansea, unfortunately I had a heart attack and was basically told there was no way I would be able to be a paramedic due to occupational health.. that was a bummer.

Why psychology? Do you plan on going in to the mental health services with the national health service?

I'm from the United Kingdom

Always cold and wet here

17-12-2018, 10:10 PM

cgtweb Wrote: It was pretty intense, I passed tough but must admit I did not expect it to be so hard when I applied, I might as well of gone straight to university lol, Cardiff met did not do the paramedic science course I wanted to study afterwards and I would of had to go to Swansea, unfortunately I had a heart attack and was basically told there was no way I would be able to be a paramedic due to occupational health.. that was a bummer.

Why psychology? Do you plan on going in to the mental health services with the national health service?

That really does suck, but did you enioy the course and did it do you any good? What are you doing now?

I plan on going into Educational Psychology. It honestly seems like the perfect little role for me, it involves everything that I love to do into one little niche. It's perfect.

I'm from west coast U.S. It's a pretty nice area to live in.

18-12-2018, 01:53 AM

Swine Wrote: That really does suck, but did you enioy the course and did it do you any good? What are you doing now?

I plan on going into Educational Psychology. It honestly seems like the perfect little role for me, it involves everything that I love to do into one little niche. It's perfect.

At the moment I am training to be a floor layer in an apprenticeship wit a guarenteed jobafterwards, complete career turn but I enjoy it, I did enjoy the course, stressful but learnt so much, I also now volunteer for the British heart foundations support team, so I go to speak to young people with heart problems in the cardiac care unit in heath hospital and also the noahs ark unit, so I use some experience but also personal experience from what happened.

I am not familiar with the term educational psychology, not something I covered but if it is what makes you happy you should totally go all in.

18-12-2018, 11:51 AM

cgtweb Wrote: At the moment I am training to be a floor layer in an apprenticeship wit a guarenteed jobafterwards, complete career turn but I enjoy it, I did enjoy the course, stressful but learnt so much, I also now volunteer for the British heart foundations support team, so I go to speak to young people with heart problems in the cardiac care unit in heath hospital and also the noahs ark unit, so I use some experience but also personal experience from what happened.

I am not familiar with the term educational psychology, not something I covered but if it is what makes you happy you should totally go all in.

That's quite a large turn, pretty interesting. I respect that you contribute to such organisations, I used to help at Noah's quite a while back myself.
Apprenticeships are usually pretty great as they do prepare you pretty well for specific fields of work; can't fault you there, good luck to you.

Yeah, doesn't seem like many people are familiar with Educational Psychology, but once explained it's really easy to understand.
It's just working with youths who're struggling through education, at home or socially to make situations more bearable and for them to gain more practical help regarding such. It'd help those with actual mental or social difficulties that would effect their lives within these areas, as well as those who're going through troubles at home or certain people within their environments.

18-12-2018, 02:37 PM

Swine Wrote: That's quite a large turn, pretty interesting. I respect that you contribute to such organisations, I used to help at Noah's quite a while back myself.
Apprenticeships are usually pretty great as they do prepare you pretty well for specific fields of work; can't fault you there, good luck to you.

Yeah, doesn't seem like many people are familiar with Educational Psychology, but once explained it's really easy to understand.
It's just working with youths who're struggling through education, at home or socially to make situations more bearable and for them to gain more practical help regarding such. It'd help those with actual mental or social difficulties that would effect their lives within these areas, as well as those who're going through troubles at home or certain people within their environments.

My interest in the health field is still pretty alive and kicking but occupational health blah blah blah.. so I contribute in what way I can and it helps for young people to talk to someone who has gone through something similar, it helps put the youths and parents mind at ease.

It must be a very rewarding career, I think alot of youth in education who suffer from such difficulties often get mistreated, misunderstood and have very little support from the school themselves as they simple do not understand or know how to approach these difficulties, so what you aim to do is very important and can often mean the difference between failing or doing well at school, so good on you buddy, we need more people like you in the world.

18-12-2018, 02:44 PM

cgtweb Wrote: My interest in the health field is still pretty alive and kicking but occupational health blah blah blah.. so I contribute in what way I can and it helps for young people to talk to someone who has gone through something similar, it helps put the youths and parents mind at ease.

It must be a very rewarding career, I think alot of youth in education who suffer from such difficulties often get mistreated, misunderstood and have very little support from the school themselves as they simple do not understand or know how to approach these difficulties, so what you aim to do is very important and can often mean the difference between failing or doing well at school, so good on you buddy, we need more people like you in the world.

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I definitely agree with you here. People who who are struggling or dont get on well in education usually have an underlying reason as to why this has happened; whether that be at home, school or just cognitively. However, there are major issues in actually trying to get the best performance out of them. Many people push them to the side to only then see them act up more and they dont get that support theg need. You can see this done in, for example, class sets - usually the bottom set is "negative behaviour", but then the teachers of their classes lack effort in trying to acyually influence that or find any sort of route to it. I'm not saying it is or should be the teacher's job to mediate such problems, but there should always be systems in place to actually support this type of change.
People just label these as misfits or careless, when a lot of the time that is simply not true.

Then you have people who are in care, for example. They typically have struggles cognitively and at home, which is completely understandable. However, even teachers cause them to feel different and like outcasts - giving special treatment when it isn't entirely necessary for everyone. Sure, if it's necessary to assist in their learning and will really benefit them, I'm all for it - it's one of the reasons why people choose this career; this is included. But it isn't always necessary and just causes anxiety and gives people more labels for themselves.

Then there's people who have genuine mental disabilities who do really require that extra level of attention and help, especially in education and socialisation. They do have the capability to get what they want, and a lot of them know that. It can just be a real struggle for them to grasp certain concepts and learn to express themselves in certain ways. They're actually usually a delight to work with and when they get it, they just seem so amazed by even the things that would seem basic to us.
If I give an example of someone aith autism, they're usually blasting through education, but then find it really difficult to develop friendships and understand other people's emotions and such. They can get things like social studies, which allows them to identify patterns to see how people respojd. This then allows tjem to develop more empathy and understanding for people. It's actually brilliant.

These are literally just some few examples, there's so much more to it. The area involves pretty much everything that I value to be important for development and understanding. Just seems perfect to me


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18-12-2018, 06:35 PM

Swine Wrote: This is actually the third time I'm writing this out now, because my page just decides to randomly referesh

I definitely agree with you here. People who who are struggling or dont get on well in education usually have an underlying reason as to why this has happened; whether that be at home, school or just cognitively. However, there are major issues in actually trying to get the best performance out of them. Many people push them to the side to only then see them act up more and they dont get that support theg need. You can see this done in, for example, class sets - usually the bottom set is "negative behaviour", but then the teachers of their classes lack effort in trying to acyually influence that or find any sort of route to it. I'm not saying it is or should be the teacher's job to mediate such problems, but there should always be systems in place to actually support this type of change.
People just label these as misfits or careless, when a lot of the time that is simply not true.

Then you have people who are in care, for example. They typically have struggles cognitively and at home, which is completely understandable. However, even teachers cause them to feel different and like outcasts - giving special treatment when it isn't entirely necessary for everyone. Sure, if it's necessary to assist in their learning and will really benefit them, I'm all for it - it's one of the reasons why people choose this career; this is included. But it isn't always necessary and just causes anxiety and gives people more labels for themselves.

Then there's people who have genuine mental disabilities who do really require that extra level of attention and help, especially in education and socialisation. They do have the capability to get what they want, and a lot of them know that. It can just be a real struggle for them to grasp certain concepts and learn to express themselves in certain ways. They're actually usually a delight to work with and when they get it, they just seem so amazed by even the things that would seem basic to us.
If I give an example of someone aith autism, they're usually blasting through education, but then find it really difficult to develop friendships and understand other people's emotions and such. They can get things like social studies, which allows them to identify patterns to see how people respojd. This then allows tjem to develop more empathy and understanding for people. It's actually brilliant.

These are literally just some few examples, there's so much more to it. The area involves pretty much everything that I value to be important for development and understanding. Just seems perfect to me


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I actually know what you mean as I grew up in care and suffered from ADHD as a child and also depression since an extremely young age.

In my GCSE's I had all F and U grades after I left care I went straight to college to gain qualifications that I needed for my dream job at the time which was a social worker (wanted to help kids like the staff at the care home helped me)

However I never had any help in school at all so I think what you want to do will be beneficial to so many many young people and I speak from experience there