Diverse Nature of Psychology
Psychology has not been around a terribly long amount of time, dating back only a century or two. However, the diverse outgrowths and subsets of psychology that have emerged and flourished in the years since is nothing short of extremely wide-ranging and fascinating all at the same time. Just a few examples would include health psychology, forensic psychology and educational psychology. Those three spheres are commonly used for cardiac rehabilitation, child custody evaluation and IQ testing, respectively. Broadly, the diversity and depth of psychology will be evaluated in terms of their impact on motivation, behavior and cognition. How and whether new disciplines (and what they are) should be applied to society will be posed by the author of this report. Finally, the sub-disciplines noted in this report will be related to the theoretical perspective in play. The author will also offer personal contributions to the psychology sphere. While psychology should typically be supportive and empathetic, there are situations where a little reality and "tough love" need to be taught.
Analysis
Two examples of psychology that were not offered by the assignment would include counseling for mental health disorders like anxiety, depression and so forth. While many interventions for these disorders are pharmacological in nature, drugs can only do so much. The rest of the work has to be done through cognitive behavioral therapy or something else along those lines. Another realm of psychology that is commonplace nowadays is couples counseling for married people, engaged couples or even people in committed...
As for what new realms of psychology could be created or used to help better society, the author of this report has a few ideas that are very much worth supporting and looking at.
When it comes to addressing social problems, there are a lot of sad stories to tell and see. Indeed, it is hard to see people in poverty, people that are homeless and children that suffer due to any number maladies, both created and thrust upon them, forced upon their parents. However, what seems to be passed over a lot is the human motive and behavior that is leading to these problems. For example, nearly half of all children born in the United States right now are born out of wedlock. This is stratospherically high as compared to what it used to be in prior years and generations. One need not thump a Bible to make the point that this is an alarming trend that needs to be reversed. Indeed, if one looks at minority children, the rates are even higher. With black mothers, the rate is three out of every four births being out of wedlock. Further, many of the people that are having children are having them too early or they are otherwise not ready for the financial and psychological burdens that parenthood will force upon them (Hayford, Guzzo & Smock, 2014).
Certainly, the government and social service agencies should not get into a game of who should have kids and who should not. However, just like community and other educational services are geared towards social/medical problems like obesity, diabetes management and so forth, the same thing should be done…
