Can I study psychology and work in a mental hospital?

Hello, I'm glad to answer your question. Psychology, as its name implies, studies psychology, mainly human psychological phenomena, so as long as people live and work, there is a market for psychological research. Therefore, the research field of psychology is very extensive. There are mainly college teachers, special education institutions, publishing units, scientific research institutes, college teachers, college counselors, primary and secondary school psychology teachers and primary and secondary school psychological counseling teachers, public security bureaus, labor camps, prisons, border checkpoints and other youth social education institutions, advertising companies, news media, market research, marketing planning, information consulting, enterprise units, civil servants and so on. , as well as headhunters (talent agencies) and enterprises. Of course, it is also possible to go to a mental hospital to be a psychologist or a psychotherapist! Well, good luck!

Do you want to ask: can a psychology student go to a mental hospital to be a psychologist?

The answer is: you can't treat mental patients as a psychiatrist.

In addition, when academic qualifications and other conditions meet the requirements of recruiting hospitals, you can apply for other non-clinical treatment positions in psychiatric hospitals to assist rehabilitation nursing and daily health care. With the qualification certificate of psychological consultation, you can do general psychological consultation in the psychological department of the hospital.

In my opinion, working in a mental hospital is not necessarily related to studying psychology.

What do you mean? It means:

Those who study psychology can work in a mental hospital or not. You can work in a mental hospital or not without studying psychology.

The following is a brief analysis of two situations:

A lot, I have no professional psychological education, but one thing is certain: the object of psychological confusion is definitely not the patient, at least not to the degree of "illness".

Psychological problems do not mean mental problems.

Some people may have some psychological obstacles due to long-term work and life, but they are not necessarily diseases.

Perhaps this understanding is not very correct, but according to my own experience, people who receive mental illness treatment because of their mental state often cannot solve the corresponding problems through psychotherapy.

The above is just my own shallow seriousness, and there may be many fallacies for reference only!

I am Chen Ziwen, let me answer this question!

(1) The audiences in mental hospitals basically belong to psychotic problems and neurotic problems, both of which need medication and doctors' diagnosis and treatment. General psychological problems, that is, some emotional troubles of normal people that we usually understand, account for a small proportion.

(2) At present, most mental hospitals belong to the public medical system, and the staff are basically graduates of domestic medical schools and health schools, all of whom have medical-related qualifications and are graduates of clinical psychology and psychiatry.

(3) Psychology is very different from psychiatry. Psychology is generally understood as applied psychology, which belongs to science, while psychiatry belongs to medicine and needs different professional licenses. The former can't practice medicine without systematic medical study.

(1) Mental hospitals will be equipped with some psychological counselors to provide psychological counseling to patients. Clinically, drugs and psychological counseling are usually called combined therapy, and the effect of combined therapy is obviously better than that of drug therapy or psychological counseling alone.

(2) If you just do psychological counseling, you really only need a psychological counselor qualification certificate, and you don't need a doctor's certificate. However, in a mental hospital, because most patients need medicine and standardized medical care, if you only master psychological counseling and don't have psychiatric skills, you can't serve patients well. Therefore, psychological counselors in mental hospitals are basically graduates of clinical psychology in medical colleges. Their job is mainly to cooperate and assist psychiatrists in treatment, and psychological counseling is an auxiliary means of treatment.

Studying psychology doesn't necessarily mean working in a mental hospital. A mental hospital not only treats patients' mental illness, but also treats mental illness. Many people in modern communities are under great pressure, and there are many people with psychological problems, so the psychological consultation room came into being. As long as you have a psychological counselor qualification certificate and excellent professional knowledge, you can work in a psychological counseling room and solve patients' psychological problems professionally.

I thought the same thing.

First of all, let's talk about mental illness. Most mental patients have mental problems because of stimulation. These people are not born fools or have IQ problems.

Psychopaths sympathize with outsiders. In fact, many stressed people envy them. Psychopaths are always happy and seldom worry or sigh. Because mental patients have been living in their dreams, some of them did not become leaders when they were sick, but became great leaders after they got sick, which is envied by many people. After illness, he had no money and became a wealthy businessman. In their own spiritual world, they have achieved their goals in life, so they are very happy.

Psychology can well understand the inner activities of mental patients, and through psychological suggestion and psychological counseling, these people can slowly come out of their own spirit and accept their own reality.

What you think is not necessarily right.

Of course, but you may have some subversive experiences, such as "we are all radishes in the laboratory, we feel like human beings because we fell asleep, we all slept in the pot, but I woke up, and I saw someone eat a radish, and then it died in our dream" and so on.

Of course. But I suggest you do some psychological knowledge sharing or open some columns. Use your skills to help more people, and at the same time you can realize your own value.