English language challenges

Learning English at the University has been very useful for me, since I came with a terrible base from my school, although I really liked the language, so I only learned by listening and singing music in English, as well as watching movies and videos also in the same language, so I found it necessary to be able to learn more theoretically in the university.

The aspects of my English that should be improved I think are the pronunciation and the choice and proper use of the lexical resources of English. I think the best way to improve these points is in practice and speaking in everyday life in English, since currently I did not do much except to watch movies, songs and videos.

My experience doing weekly blogs has been very good because I have been so surprised by my creative writing abilities, like those of my colleagues, and this is what I like about the blogs, the great ideas that I can, and we have been able to reach to have to then add into our websites, with funny stories, sad, reflective etc, which was nice to get to read every Monday, to make comments (although a little stereotyped), which by the way i always read and tried to answer. It is for this last that the "concept" behind the blogs was quite "cute" for the highly positive comments that we all received from each other.

I had never written post in English before, but it seems to me something very creative to put into practice our skills, it is a good way to teach English, so that besides learning about this language we can interact with each other in a way closer to the current reality , although to make it more realistic I would allow all kinds of comments on blogs, of those that one does with friends, if you know what I mean 😉

This will be my last blog, and, although it is not the best I have done, I see it with a lot of affection since it is the last time that I will express myself through this platform. Goodbye audience 😊

Changes to my study programme

Hello classmates, today's class I talk you about my opinion of my career, psychology, among the points I would like to touch are: the curricular Maya, the work and duration of studies, use of technology and teaching methods.

In the first place, regarding the curricular Maya, I believe that I find it appropriate, and that the academic load is well organized with respect to which order we should learn each subjet, as what philosophy should be before epistemology, and these two before theory and systems. The only problem that I believe has the curricular may of my career is that I think that the professional practice should be before the 5th year, since this year is very overloaded with the examination of title and thesis.

The second point, regarding the work and the duration of the studies I think they are at a very adequate level to be able to train as professionals; their requirement is rather necessary and not excessive.

Regarding the use of technology in the psychology degree, I think it is a little low, since we do not have so many technological tools for studying, and could go deeper to teach us about the existence of technological mechanisms for various experiments that occur abroad

With regard to teaching methods I think that if it is correct, although it could be much better in some cases, since it can happen that teachers are not motivators and give classes that are usually less encouraging than they really are.

Despite all this I want to add that I love my career and I do not regret anything that I chose, since I fall in love every day and with every reading for my university education.

Personal Opinions

Hello colleagues, today I will give you my opinion as argued as possible regarding several contingent issues of our society.

What is my opinion about child labor? Today, when we all believed that slavery had been definitively eradicated from the world we inhabit, we can see that millions of children every day perform tasks that are even dangerous for their health and for their lives for which neither rights nor freedoms exist, they are in an absolute situation of slavery. In this sense, it seems terrible to me that in so many countries, whole generations of cheap labor are being used, very cheap, silent and silenced. Children who work not only in illegal situations, but also unhealthy and degrading that dynamit their options for the future and their dignity.

What is my opinion about violence on television? I believe that television can be a very powerful influence in the development of children in the formation of character and behavior, since many of the television programs contain a high degree of violence, and can be imitated, introjected, generating a kind of "immunity" to the horror of violence; and Gradually generating an acceptance of violence as a way to solve problems.

What is my opinion about legalizing marihuana? Personally I think that marijuana itself is a substance that must be approved for legal consumption, both in a therapeutic way since it has been demonstrated and recognized its effectiveness and improvement of health in some diseases, as well as recreationally, which is where there is more controversy because the prohibition of marketing and cultivation of marijuana, this produces a black market (or drug trafficking) which generates a greater expense of the state in persecuting these producers of the "soft drug", that all this to Unlike the nicotine-containing cigarette, marihuana does not generate high levels of dependence.

What is my opinion about legalizing abortion in some cases? I believe that penalizing abortion affects, restricts and violates the fundamental human rights of girls, adolescents and women, since it induces them to resort to unsafe and risky abortion methods for their integrity, has a differentiated impact on poor and young women, exposes them to institutional violence, and it feeds a millionaire and clandestine market of abortions, that is why I am in favor of the legalization of abortion in all cases.

In what area would I want to specialize

Hello colleagues, this week I will talk about the specialty I want to devote myself as a psychologist and which is the area that interests me the most.

The specialty to which I want to dedicate myself is clinical psychology, since I think that with the clinical psychologist, it is somewhat easier to find solutions to discomforts and difficulties since it gathers the characteristics of all the other areas to be able to give an adequate response according to the case.

In this way, clinical psychology will not ignore the valuable knowledge of other theories such as psychoanalysis, deep psychology that analyzes the unconscious motivations of our behavior; Cognitive Theories that study the phenomena of perception, Behaviorism with its learning techniques and its formulas to eradicate bad habits, Experimental Psychology, which studies behavior, nor the psychological tests that measure human behavior, and modern postures such as Transpersonal theory, one of the last contributions.

Not ignoring any psychological theory is desirable so that every psychologist can be guided in a coherent way towards the most operational way of treating each patient as a unique person.

Experience is the only thing that allows a psychologist to perform the necessary synthesis and understand that the only theory is that there is no theory, because the important thing is to grasp the essential that each one has and apply appropriately according to the needs of each person.

And this is why I would like to specialize in Clinic and ideally be able to practice it in my own practice.

Postgraduates

Magister, doctorate and postdoctoral students are persons made up of women and men who dedicate a large part of their lives to study, and that is why they were called to promote the development of Chile in all areas of human knowledge. That is why I have always wanted to be part of this group of students, I am very fond of the idea of ​​being able to help with my knowledge to society, providing all the tools I can get from the study.

My options for postgraduate studies that could be taken in Chile, first in Magister in Clinical Psychology of Adults in the University of Chile, since clinical psychology calls me a lot and especially because I would like to specialize in psychoanalysis, in the same way that I could also take the Master in Intersubjective Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the Catholic University. With respect to the higher grades, my two options are in the Catholic University, finding as a first option the doctorate in psychology and in second option the doctorate in psychotherapy.

In the same way, I would like to study outside of Chile and specialize, as I mentioned earlier, in clinical psychology, psychoanalysis or psychotherapy.

Being very realistic and having this information to write this post, I realized that it is very expensive and difficult to achieve these objectives, but I believe that with perseverance, studying and working hard could achieve my goal of studying postgraduate courses in Chile, or even better out from here.

My pets

Currently, in my house, there are 4 pets, two dogs and two cats, the dogs: Kenay and Diango are the pets of my cousins (since I live with them), while the two cats: Neo and Mel, are mine and my mother

With respect to the dogs of the house, Kenay, who is of labrador race, is the oldest, who arrived in 2007 at home when he was a baby. Kenay is a very calm dog, tender and is very loved by the family. The other dog, Diango, my uncle adopted him in 2014, because a year earlier he lived on our street and was fed by my uncle when he could, until one day we decided to adopted it.

My cats are what I love most in life, because Neo, its my first pet, and I adopted it when I went through a bad time, it keep me company and we give each other love <3. My cat Neo is a black cat that we rescued from the street in May of last year, when it was roughly 1 month and a half, so it is currently more than a year old.

Mel is the last pet that came to our house, is a cat that was my mother found in a trapped tree, and which my mother decided to adopt in the summer of this year. Mel is a gray cat and yellow eyes very tender and playful. Like all the pets in this house, day and day receive a lot of love for the part of all those who live here.

My favorite food is Chinese food.

First of all, I love the Chinese food because I like noodles, and they are soft and have a delicious soup on it, as well as in the noodle, you can put a spicy sauce to add flavor. There are different kinds of noodles such as chicken chow mein witch is my favorite. I like to eat it because it is soft and I like soy sauce with chicken and noodles. Another one of my favorite Chinese food is fried rice, I like it steamed and with carrots, peas, and shrimp. I like chow fun too because it is very oily and is fun to eat because you can stack it up and stab it with your chopstick. Shrimp balls are good too, because are crunchy and I REALLY LOVE SHRIMP. I like egg rolls too because there are vegetables, meat, and you can dip it in a sauce (it’s so tasty when you dip it in sweet and sour sauce).

One of the most important reasons why Chinese food is my favorite is because they remind me of my childhood and those nice lunches and dinners that I shared with my mother in the restaurant that was located in front of her work.