Challenges in psychology

To talk about challenges is always something difficult, because it depends on where you are seeing the thing that you want to analize. In psychology this point is so important because its has many development areas, so you can see for example, that the research areas as neuropsychology, biofeedback, cognitive sciences or basic research on behavior face continuous challenges about the technology that they need for to get safe results or how the researchers are elaborating the points to be studies.

In relation to the topic previously treated, is necesary to research in so many others areas than hasn’t empirical bases, or than so much times are thinked as if they would be true only because theory says that it is. In psychotherapy that point takes more importances because there are many therapeutic interventions that aren’t empirical validation, so sometimes one technique or procedure isn’t the most correct as treatment for a specifically mental disorder or symptom, that includes a serious ethic problem at moment to be attending to a patient.

I think that the previous problem is currently the most important to clinical psychology, because it has also a great social relevance, because the public services about mental health have not any idea about what thing is useful for what sindrome, symptom or specific problem, that produce that so much public money are spend on unuseful procedures that finally doesn’t help to give efficacies solution to a lot of people that is needing effectivness responses to their problems.

All those problems are relationed a lot finally with the education in psychology to the futures professionals, because if the universities will be dedicated to put attention to do more and better research, and to be worried to teach to the students to analize in a critic way the literature about each topic than they are obtaining -that is to learn to doesn’t believe all that they are reading, and asking all about how the researchs were did- I’m sure that so much of this problems would be a better future, in this country the problem is that there are only seven universities that really are doing continuous research about all of themes that to psychology has applications.

Well, I hope your comments! And good luck with the end of semester!
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