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What are family influences on choosing a career?

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An understanding about what jobs are out in the world and available based on what your family has done – family of engineers, likely to be interested in engineering/more inclined to follow that career path

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Where to find information on choosing a job and how to find different job characteristics?

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Occupational Outlook Handbook, literature from professional organizations, and people who work in the field already

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considerations that should be taken into account when choosing a career?

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Potential for success in a variety of occupations, success is linked to mobility, be cautious about choosing a job solely based on salary, etc.

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Holland’s person-environment fit model

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A person’s sense of self and personality, when matched with an environment that maximizes their identity – their work will be more meaningful and productive, happier, meaning and purpose increase

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Realistic type

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likes to work with hands - mechanics, landscapers, physical labor with hands

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investigative type

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likes to solve problems, research, likes a good problems, likes to be creative in solving problems

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artistic type

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artists, writers

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social type

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likes to work with people, good with people, NURSES

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enterprising type

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business people, like to be in management and influence people, ceos, etc

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conventional type

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clerks, office workers, “traditional working” environments, bankers

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What specific aptitude is becoming more desirable in the workforce

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Social skills, being able to work with other people = better at your job

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What does an industrialist/organizational psychologist do?

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Study behavior in the workplace - how teams operate, how companies are maximizing their profits based on how the team is operating, will make recommendations to a company based on what they observe

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What is sexual harassment

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Any unwanted sexual advances or sexual comments in a setting such as work/office

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What is burnout?

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When someone is overwhelmed, tired, used to like job but does not anymore, a little cynical, unmotivated, needs a break

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What kind of jobs produce the most stress (high/low psychological demands, high/low control continuum)

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Highest psychological demands (EMTS, trauma nurses) with low decision control create the most amount of stress

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Intrinsic job satisfaction?

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What you get from a job, helping people, being creative, a job that feeds something within you, EXTRINSIC = salary, benefits, etc

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What is the medical model

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Useful to think about psychological disorders as a disease – understanding of diagnosis, differentiation, and base treatment on diagnosis

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Diagnosis

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Ability to differentiation between different symptoms

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Etiology

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where something starts

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prognosis

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course of the syndrome, disease, or issue - the follow-through of the treatment process and duration

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Criteria for abnormal behavior?

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deviance, maladaptive functioning, personal distress

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Deviance

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Antisocial personality disorder – hurting others all the time even though they do not think they are doing anything wrong

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Maladaptive functioning

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Functioning impaired, can’t get out of bed or take care of kids, cant go to work, ability to do life is impaired

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personal distress

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If functioning fine - going to work, taking care of kids, being social, but feel terrible and anxious and depressed, considered abnormal

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anxiety disorders/symptoms
become tense, thoughts racing, panic attacks, autonomic nervous system is activated, very uncomfortable
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OCD
obsessive-compusilve disorder - obsessive thoughts, irrational compulsions - such as a lot of germs --> excessive hand washing
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Panic disorder
overwhelming sense of anxiety, dissociation, rapid heart rate, hyperventilation, tingling in hands an feet, feels like someone is having a heart attack
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Agoraphobia
When someone does not like going outside, often paired with panic disorder, is fearful of going out into the world, typical to isolate, have groceries delivered, do work online, danger associated with the world
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Dissociative identity disorder
multiple personality disorder, coexistance of two or more distinct personalities within the same person
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Major depressive disorder symptoms
low mood, loss of interest, anhedonia, insomnia or hypersomnia, eating too much or too little, psychomotor agitation or retardation, thoughts of death or suicide
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bipolar disorder
the distinction of mani and MDD - hypomania BD 2, mania BD 1
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schizophrenia
psychotic disorder where contact with reality is lost, hallucinations (seeing, hearing, tasting things not there, etc), Delusions (thinking they are God, or that the government is out to get them, etc), paranoia
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positive symptoms
additions of something(s) that are not there --> hallucinations and delusions, thinking things, seeing/hearing/tasting/smelling
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negative symptoms
lack of engaging in behaviors, such as lack on basic personal hygiene, no range of emotion etc
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anorexia
disturbed bodyweight, restricting, binge-purge subtype, low weight
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bulimia
"typical weight" according to BMI, over eating thousands of calories at a time --> purge, whether vomiting, laxatives, excessive exercise, etc
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binge eating disorder
bulimia without the purging
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What is insight therapy?
sorting through a persons life, helping them develop insight so that they can understand where their problems are coming from for better navigation of those problems
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what is behavior therapy
Looking at the behavior itself, difficulties with intimacy and relationships --> Start practicing more self-disclosure. depressed --> behavioral activation, just do things, opposite action
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biomedical therapy
The use of medicine to treat psychological disorders, psychopharmacology, prescription of drugs to ease psychological stress = psychopharmacology
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difference between a psychologist and psychiatrist
Both had doctoral degrees, ONLY a psychiatrist can prescribe medication
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what is group therapy
simultaneous treatment of several people at the same time to help ease stress
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what is positive psychology
discipline within psychology that focuses on th epositive aspects of our lives, counterweight to the fields negatively oriented history -- focusing on what can help us flourish and grow
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What does PERMA stand for
p - positive emotions - joy, happiness, excitement, confidence e - engagement - flow (flow = optimal blend of skill and challenge) r - relationships - positive relationships m - meaning and mattering a - achievement and accomplishment
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Best way to immediately increase positive emotion
Move your body, exercise
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Define growth mindset
Belief system that someone can make changes and grow, abilities are fluid, flexible, changeable, and power of YET
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ways to increase meaning
transcending self, helping others, helping the less fortunate even animals -- construct of helping others thrive allows you to feel meaningful
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How to increase the enjoyment of any activity
Do the activity with someone else, do something outside, reduce distractions as much as you can and be fully immersed in the present moment
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Know why Martin Seligman developed positive psychology
A counterweight to the field's negatively oriented history
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Know what positive psychology’s three lines of inquiry are
positive subjective experiences – how are people feeling in the momet positive individual traits – kindness, etc positive institutions – how are they engaging in positive things, organizations and things
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Know about positive subjective experiences
focused in the present, here and now, tend to be anchored in the present moment but can be about the past and future
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What is flow
Flow is when you are completely engaged in an activity that is appropriately challenging, losing self-consciousness in activity, full immersion into it
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Know what mindfulness is
focus on what is happening around you right now, present moment engagement different from flow in a way that flow is full immersion, mindfulness is just staying present in the here and now
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Know what savoring is
- ability to focus on and increase the enjoyment of any activity, eating slow and focus on texture, temperature, taste, savoring the food - relationship – slow down, savor the moment, increase sense of positivity in that moment
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Know what resilience is
going along with life, ability to bounce back from thing that just happened
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Know about post-traumatic growth
going along life, something bad happens, growth and bounceback occurs due to this happening
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Gratitude
when you are thankful for what you have, you are going to be happier
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how can money make people happy?
When they use it for the betterment of others, giving it away, helping other people
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Different ways to increase positivity in your life
exercise, focus on the present moment
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Humanism...?
Most similar to positive psychology
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Grit?
People who are gritty work harder, they have a good balance of passion and perseverance, important to have a major you are engaged in -- passion and perseverance is grit

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