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Exploring Psychology Careers
Tasha Houston
April 25, 2016 PSY305
April 25, 2016 PSY305

Exploring Psychology Careers
Psychology is one of those majors that you gravitate towards if you plan on having a career working with individuals analyzing the brain and human behaviors such as a psychologist. For individuals who study psychology; they incline interest in the human brain and is looking to gain skills that helps understand human behavior. For myself, it was working individuals who suffer from mental illness and helping them achieve a better quality of life by allowing them to be more productive in their community. Psychology is one of those majors that can be very diverse and you can utilize it in just about any career. We are constantly dealing with human behavior on a daily basis.
Majoring in psychology comes with a lot of perks and benefits. For instance, you gain a lot of resourceful skills. These skills can be designed so that you are able to transcend these skills over to many different career choices. While majoring in psychology you become more successful in using social and personal skills. You also gain stronger conflict resolution skills as well. You are more inclined to use these skills to handle conflict and adept to any situation and how might a person respond to certain conflicts. You also become a more strategic thinker which is a positive because depending on the situation; you can pick out the critical aspects of anything. In addition; you may also gain your own personal development meaning; you develop your own effective strategies for self-management and self-improvement. All of these trained skills benefits you; making you successful possibly in your career field and being that of a great asset in almost any line of work. The list of skills that you gain