Week 12 Diversity in Psychology
Part 1:
A. Topic: Diversity in Psychology.
B. Purpose: To encourage people to become informed and to join any psychology organization to help change the views in psychology.
Audience: People who are interested in pursuing psychology as a career, they can rage from high schoolers and up to professionals already in their respected fields of psychology. But also the audience can include anyone that may need psychological help.
Solution: To get students who are studying psychology to get more involved in their filed and also encourage others to get educated on what psychology can do to help people.
Part 2: Solution
The solution for the issue is to get the audience informed about the field of psychology. In order to make the field of psychology more diverse we need to encourage psychology students to get more involved in their field. They can go to conferences, and join clubs that is mainly focused on psychology. By getting psychology students involved in their field it helps build a community that can become diverse as it grows.
As the field of psychology becomes diverse so does their patients. In other for people that are in need of psychological help to have trust in psychologists they need to feel comfortable. By increasing the diversity of the patients there is an open door that can help increase diversity in the field of psychology. There needs to be more diverse people in the field of psychology that are from different races, religions, sexualities and genders.
Many organizations that can help provide information and support are:
American Psychological Association
International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology
National Register of Health Service Psychologists
Society for Health Psychology
Many conferences are held every year by these organizations and many more that can be very helpful for students that are in the psychology field.