Hey all,
On November 6th&19th Queens College is hosting an open house for a graduate program in School Psychology. This program is looking to select 15 students for a grant supported program.
I’ve attached the information from the flyers for this event, hope you check it out
Hi Everyone,
I am going with another member of my lab tomorrow to the St. Francis College for the 25th Greater New York Conference on Behavioral Research (10’/26). If anyone is going and wants to join us feel free to call or text me [number was removed].
Rachel
I found an interesting article in the NYT that can applicable to all students. The effects of social factors on intelligence. Here’s the link:
I will be at a conference in a southern city in a couple of weeks, and since I had interest in the clinical psychology PhD program at a major university in that city I decided to contact the program to see if I would be able to meet a student from their program who could tell me details about the program that are not found online. I did not know how to go about this and whom to contact, but a friend who is in (non-psychology) grad school suggested that I contact the program head. So I did, I contacted the department head who immediately responded, however she quizzed me about the program’s Student Handbook and said that it is expected that I read it thoroughly before meeting anyone in the program. I had skimmed some of the Handbook; however I did not read all 70 pages of it thoroughly.
Through this experience I learned that most grad programs have a “Student’s Handbook” that explains the program thoroughly at-length, and that many programs expect you to have read it and to know it well when they are contacted. I have found that these handbooks are sometimes not so visible on the program’s websites; however they can be more easily located through a Google search.
I’m not sure if anyone else has seen this article published back in September by the New York Times, called “Psychotherapy’s Image Problem.” I thought it was a really interesting, worthwhile piece because it highlighted how people nowadays (especially insurance companies) are so eager to dismiss “the talking cure,” and label it as something that is unhelpful and unimportant. However, research has shown that psychotherapy, also undertaken in conjunction with medication depending on what’s being treated, has provided patients with huge benefits and long-term effects.
Here is the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/psychotherapys-image-problem.html?_r=0