I am a psychology major, and my school ranks among the top five in China. None of the teachers who have taught us encourages us to do so. Many professors say that they would rather talk for eight hours now than do an hour of psychological counseling. It's too painful! ! ! ! Even mental torture!
First of all, consulting ability is very, very difficult to cultivate! Those professional knowledge can be mastered with normal IQ, but more importantly, others! Nowadays, many people become consultants as soon as they graduate or take exams. I'm in my twenties, never married, never had children, never got married, I've been in contact with the intrigue of the unit, and I've been in contact with many types of people, whether trained or not. Isn't it just a bluff or something? Go and consult. People who come to consult can have all kinds of questions. Can a young man solve other people's mother-in-law problems? Can a little girl teach her stepmother how to get along with her stepson correctly? Counseling needs to be based on enough social and emotional experience! It can be said that 90% of them are unqualified now, and you can earn hundreds of dollars by fooling people into saying some useless nonsense. If someone comes once, they won't come again! There are many free consultants in the school. What are they? Just chatting with students, and some even engage in ideological and political education, which is quite different from psychology! What's more, at present, this aspect in China is very immature, and Chinese people are also skeptical about psychological counseling. Without the expected effect, it is difficult to have a real therapeutic effect! What's more, foreign real consultants have a medical foundation, are capable of prescribing, and are qualified to master a large number of "drugs" and "drugs necessary for suicide". Can anyone do this?
Then there is psychological ability! Don't think that you have a strong psychological endurance after studying psychology. Just be an amateur consultant outside, and the people who come to see you won't have much problem. As long as you are thick-skinned, you should know that consultation is face to face. You can see the reaction of the other person's eyes to what you say, and you should also have the ability to selectively forget and quickly put the negative emotions from others behind you. I haven't consulted before, and people around me say it's useless, because the result is that the consultant only understands the other person's problems and then says a few words to enlighten him. It's better to have dinner with some friends and get drunk!
If you are a professional consultant with academic qualifications and fame, then not only people with ordinary problems, but also people with serious problems will come to you and pass on all their misery, pain and depression to you. If you have a high professional quality, you must first understand each other's psychology and feel the same. You will encounter negative emotions at the end of the day. Who can stand it every day? So many professors say not to engage in this occupation that is harmful to physical and mental health and lose your life! ! !
Therefore, becoming a real psychological counselor is long and arduous, and if you do, you are eligible to charge thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan an hour! !
Psychological career is not just a consultant. If you read a few books, you will find how widely psychology is used! Psychology and Life is recommended as a classic textbook designated by famous American schools, which is a must-see for getting started! ! Very good, vivid, rich, easy to understand, divergent thinking mode is very strong! Look at this first, and then consider whether to develop in the direction of psychology!
As for the domestic textbooks, the exam-oriented education is very strong, which is too suitable for reviewing materials in exams, but ignores the cultivation of readers' critical ability, divergent thinking and innovative logic interest. Beginners had better look at American textbooks first. If you are self-taught, you must first understand the general psychology and the history of psychology (mainly the theoretical ideas of several famous schools)! ) These two are the foundations of other development, such as personality, metamorphosis and social psychology. You need to learn mathematical statistics, first master psychological statistics, then study experimental psychology, and then psychological measurement, and psychological counseling and therapy is usually the last course of college professional courses. If you really want to do this, you must learn everything in front of you in a down-to-earth manner, and you can't go far!
Of course, it doesn't matter just for textual research.
In short, I suggest that you don't decide your development direction easily because you don't know your interests and likes, because this is not necessarily what you really want, or even what you think. I know that psychology is interesting and even mysterious to outsiders. Many people like it, but most of them don't understand or even misunderstand it. So take more time to know yourself and other considerations in this respect, so as not to start blindly and waste time and money by detours!
Above: Original and true.