Future psychologists should read this article because they need to know all the answers of these questions to be able to know if they really are interested in this profession. There are good sides and downsides in this profession.
Being a psychologist is having to constantly learn new things about the human mind. You always have to be up to date to be able to help all kind of people and all kind of new mental health problems. You have to be able to have an approach with different types of personalities to be able to help them.
Psychologists are there to advise and help a person maintain and improve their psychological functioning. Psychologists study human behaviour. To be able to study they observe, interview and examine individual.
In a typical day, a psychologist will speak to his patients and will do report of the appointment that they had.
Psychologists can work in a lot of places. They can work in an office with patients. They can work in school and help students and parents. They can also work in hospitals.
To become a psychologist, you have to go to CEGEP and then go to university. In CEGEP, you have to do a program in Social Sciences. Then, you have to go to university and do a bachelor in psychology. After, you have to do a doctoral degree in psychology. When you graduate from university, you have to be part of the "Ordre des psychologues du Québec".
Psychologists do approximately between $36.92 the hour and $48.08 the hour.
You always have to learn new things about mental health because we discover everyday new things about the human mind. They need to have clinical training or research training.
The dangers and downsides of being a psychology is that it can affect you mentally because you spend the day with individual with mental illness. Hearing to bad things all day can lead you to be a negative person.
I don't think psychologist will be replaced by robots soon because psychologist have a human side that only human can have. Robots will not be able to help other human.
In Québec, the age of retirement is 65 years old. At that age, you will have learned a lot about the human mind and you will have enough experience to continue helping your relatives and friends.
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