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What type of position is it (academic, nonacademic, postdoctoral fellowship)?
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender issues in sport
Smoking, alcohol use, and drug use
Eating, dieting, and exercise/physical activity
The impact of culture on health
3. Using an article from one of the exercise and sport psychology publications noted in the chapter, answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the article?b. Who are the authors?c. What are their affiliations?/Where do they work?d. In 3 or 4 sentences describe the article’s findings.
2. Using the consultant finder on the AASP website, find a certified consultant in your general geographic area. Answer the following questions based on his or her profile:a. Where is the person employed?b. What is the person’s job title?c. What is the person’s contact information?d. In what
1. Using your college’s course catalog, identify courses that are related to exercise and sport psychology. Answer the following questions for each course.a. What department offers the course?b. Is it an undergraduate or graduate level course?c. Is it part of a concentration, minor, or major
Maintaining an exercise program.
Psychological issues associated with officiating/refereeing
Coaching and motivational behavior
Working with athletes who dope
(Lack of ) Access to healthcare and healthcare policy
Coping with chronic pain
1. The APLS website (www.ap-ls.org) has a “Job Listings” page that gives information on academic, nonacademic, and training opportunities. Choose one position opening from each category and answer the following questions.
3. Using PsycCareers – APA’s Online Career Center (http://jobs.psyccareers.com/), search for a neuropsychology-related position opening.Answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the position?b. Where is it located (hospital, research institute, university)?c. What are the job
2. Using an article from one of the neuropsychology publications noted in the chapter, answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the article?b. Who are the authors?c. What are their affiliations?/Where do they work?d. In 3 or 4 sentences describe the article’s findings.
1. Using the online directory of training programs on Division 40’s web page (http://www.div40.org/)or the GSP publication, locate a neuropsychology or neuroscience program that interests you and answer the following questions.a. What is the name of the university?b. Who is the program
4. Using PsycCareers – APA’s Online Career Center(http://jobs.psyccareers.com/), search for a health psychology-related position opening. Answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the position?b. Where is it located (hospital, research institute, university)?c. What are the job
3. Using an article from one of the health psychology publications noted in the chapter, answer the following questions:a. What is the title of the article?b. Who are the authors?c. What are their affiliations?/Where do they work?d. In 3 or 4 sentences describe the article’s findings.
2. Using the online directory of programs on Division 38’s web page or Graduate Study in Psychology (APA, 2010), locate a health psychology graduate program that interests you and answer the following questions:a. What is the name of the university?b. Who is the program director?c. What type of
1. Using your college’s course catalog, identify courses that are related to health psychology. Answer the following questions for each course.a. What department offers the course?b. Is it an undergraduate or graduate level course?c. Are there any prerequisites for the course?d. Is it part of a
Sexually transmitted infections (e.g., herpes, HIV, HPV).
The impact of psychological and biological factors on the immune system(psychoneuroimmunology)
Cardiovascular issues (e.g., hypertension and stroke)
Chronic illness (e.g., diabetes, asthma)
5. Using the information from this chapter, write a cover letter for a position in the field that you want to pursue.
4. Using the information in this chapter develop two résumés.a. Base your first résumé on your current experiences, background, and training.b. Base your second résumé on what you hope to accomplish by the time you graduate.
3. Utilizing one of the internet resources listed in this chapter, find and investigate a current job opening that requires a bachelor’s degree in psychology.a. What is the position?b. Where is it located?c. What are the application procedures?d. What is the salary?
2. Based on your investigation in Suggested Exercise 1, choose the career that most interests you and do an informational interview of someone in that field. The following article by Crosby and Dillon (2010) will provide assistance with structuring the interview:
1. Using O*Net (www.onetonline.org), investigate three careers that interest you.a. What is the average salary for that position in your state?b. What are the typical work activities?
1. Using your department’s web page, investigate two psychology faculty members who may be potential mentors to you. Helpful questions to answer might include:a. In what area of psychology is his/her degree?b. What research does he/she do?c. Has she/he published any articles? (If so, find a
2. Access a copy of your university’s student handbook or catalog that includes descriptions of the courses offered throughout the university. Based on your ultimate educational and career goals, plan out the remainder of your undergraduate education. Be sure to include courses in the areas
3. Use Box 6.2 “Twenty Personal Qualities, Attitudes, and Behaviors Consistent with Graduate Training” for this exercise. Rate each of the personal qualities on a scale from 1 (Not at all like me) to 5 (Absolutely like me). Sum your ratings for a total ranging from 20–100. Answer the
1. Using one of the resources noted in the chapter, identify two programs in your area of interest. Develop an Excel or SPSS file based on the variables listed in Box 7.3 and fill in the spreadsheet for each of the programs.
2. Using the sample vita and other resources identified in this chapter as a guide, create the vita that you would like to have when you apply for graduate school.(Once completed, let it serve as a guide for your undergraduate activities!)
3. Using one of the programs you identified in the first exercise, develop a mock application. (Applications can often be downloaded. If not, choose a similar program that does have a downloadable application.) As part of the application, develop a cover letter and statement of intent specific to
2. Research one of the faculty members in your department.• Does the person have a web page?• Does the person have a vita posted?• What research interests does the faculty member have?• What publications does the faculty member have? (Do a literature search.)• List one of the faculty’s
3. Attend a career fair. Career fairs are typically organized by colleges and universities to provide students with opportunities to interact with area businesses and organizations. Fairs are often advertised by your institution’s career services center or through the offices that coordinate
2. Complete several additional self‐assessment tasks to supplement those provided in the chapter. Use these additional tasks to gather more information about your life, career, and/or educational interests and abilities as you work to further develop your goals. Many self‐assessment tasks are
1. If you are still undecided about your major, talk with at least one faculty member in each of the areas you are considering in order to gain their perspectives on the advantages and limitations of the major at your institution. Also talk with individuals in the community who are working with
2. Talk with junior‐ and senior‐level psychology majors about their experiences and any suggestions they have for students in your position. If you do not know any advanced students, contact a psychology student organization at your school (e.g., Psi Chi) to ask for names of students who would
3. Talk with peers in your classes about why they are pursuing psychology. Listen for reasons that you think match yours as well as any different or novel reasons you may not have considered. Notice which of your peers seem to have given this more or less thought than you.
4. Ask the department of psychology at your institution if they can provide you with contact information for some recent alumni. Many departments maintain alumni databases, and many alumni are willing to take the time to talk with current students. If your department makes such information
1. Keep a time log for a few days, noting the activities you engaged in and the amount of time you spent on each (e.g., reading, sleeping, browsing the internet, exercising, eating, studying, texting, working). Think of this like a register for a bank account where you record each transaction. At
2. Using the campus resources section of this chapter, identify and become familiar with each of these resources at your institution. They may be listed on your institution’s website, often under the title of “student services” or “academic services.” Many of these resources maintain
3. Attend an academic advising meeting with a professor in your major department in addition to that which may be normally required of you. Rather than focusing on course selection or career issues, use this time to talk in detail about your academic performance. Be honest about your strengths and
4. Pick one course that you will take next semester and plan an academic makeover for yourself. In the course you select, experiment with some of the academic strategies described in this chapter to alter your typical approach to reading, studying, completing assignments, and engaging in class.
1. Familiarize yourself with the psychology faculty at your institution. Begin by studying their biographies, which are often available on the department website.If faculty members have their own websites or resources for learning more about their professional work, read this information as well.
2. Practice conducting a literature search and writing APA‐style citations by taking the following steps:a. Select a topic of interest to you (e.g., memory problems with chronic alcohol use, infant language development, sleep disorders, treatment of autism spectrum disorder, stereotype
1. Familiarize yourself with the career services provided to students at your institution.Many colleges and universities have a career services center or office that provides helpful career‐related information and assistance to students. These services are often “free” in that they are
1. Think for a moment about some aspect of human behavior that has piqued your curiosity in recent days. Perhaps you observed an aggressive driver, children playing a game, or a couple interacting. Formulate a question about some aspect of what you observed. Now look to the research literature and
2. Identify the faculty members in your psychology department whose backgrounds are in experimental, developmental, social, cognitive, or biopsychology. Select one whose research area interests you and ask them to provide you a reference for a research article that is important in their subfield.
3. Investigate opportunities for gaining research experience. Some departments of psychology post openings for research assistant positions in a faculty member’s lab. In other departments these positions can only be discovered by having conversations with faculty members about opportunities to
2. Using the online list of programs on Division 38’s web page or Graduate Study in Psychology (APA, 2014a), locate a health psychology graduate program that interests you and answer the following questions.a. What is the name of the university?b. Who is the program director?c. What type of
3. Using an article from one of the health psychology publications noted in the chapter, answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the article?b. Who are the authors?c. What are their affiliations? Where do they work?d. In three or four sentences describe the article’s findings.
4. Using PsycCareers – APA’s Online Career Center (jobs.psyccareers.com), search for a health psychology‐related position opening. Answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the position?b. Where is it located (hospital, research institute, university)?c. What are the job
1. Using the online directory of training programs on Division 40’s web page(www.div40.org) or a recent GSP publication, locate a neuropsychology or neuroscience program that interests you and answer the following questions.a. What is the name of the university?b. Who is the program director?c.
2. Using an article from one of the neuropsychology publications noted in the chapter, answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the article?b. Who are the authors?c. What are their affiliations? Where do they work?d. In three or four sentences, describe the article’s findings.
3. Using PsycCareers – APA’s Online Career Center (jobs.psyccareers.com), search for a neuropsychology‐related position opening. Answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the position?b. Where is it located (hospital, research institute, university)?c. What are the job
1. The APLS website (http://www.apadivisions.org/division‐41) has a “Job Listings”page that gives information on academic and professional positions. Choose one position opening from each category and answer the following questions.•• What type of position is it (academic or
2. Locate an issue of one of the top journals listed in this chapter. Answer the following questions.•• What are some of the topics studied?•• Where do the authors work?•• Were any of the authors students?
3. For one of the authors cited in this chapter or on the APLS web page, do a web search for information on him or her. Answer the following questions.•• Where does the person work?•• What is the person’s job (e.g., professor, student, clinician)?•• What other
4. Research one of the forensically oriented graduate programs listed in one of the resources noted in this chapter. Answer the following questions.•• What is the name of the program?•• What degrees does the program offer?•• What are the application procedures?•• When is the
1. Find an advertisement for a faculty position from one of the resources listed in the chapter. Answer the following questions.• Where is the position?• What rank is the position (visiting, instructor, assistant, associate, full)?• Is it tenure‐track, tenured, or another designation?•
2. Interview a clinical or counseling psychologist who is working in a setting you have not previously considered as part of your career goals (e.g., hospital, prison, government, university, military). Think about your particular interests in clinical and counseling psychology and what settings
1. Using your college’s course catalog, identify courses that are related to health psychology. Answer the following questions for each course.a. What department offers the course?b. Is it an undergraduate or graduate level course?c. Are there any prerequisites for the course?d. Is it part of a
3. Using an article from one of the exercise and sport psychology publications noted in the chapter, answer the following questions.a. What is the title of the article?b. Who are the authors?c. What are their affiliations?/Where do they work?d. In three or four sentences describe the article’s
1. Select a major business or organization and learn about how it currently operates in areas relevant to I/O psychology. For example, if you select a major retail chain, seek to learn about how it selects employees, evaluates employees’ work, trains its leaders, or structures the work
2. Locate a job advertisement for a human resources position that you could potentially qualify for as an undergraduate student. Investigate the responsibilities associated with the position, as well as those of the department in which you would work. Consider whether such a position might provide
3. Identify a consulting firm that provides I/O psychology and/or related services to organizations and learn about the types of services they provide. The majority of these firms maintain a strong web presence in order to effectively market themselves. Contact a consultant within the firm and
1. Contact a current graduate student who is pursuing a doctorate in clinical or counseling psychology in order to pose questions you have about training in these subfields. Many graduate programs provide email addresses for their graduate students, and many of these students are willing to answer
3. Investigate a research opportunity within your undergraduate program or one at a neighboring institution. Contact a faculty member whose research interests you and have a conversation with them about what they typically look for in an undergraduate research assistant. Use the information they
4. Investigate a volunteer opportunity within an area hospital or residential treatment center. Larger hospitals often have volunteer centers and allow some choice in the areas you work (e.g., psychiatric unit or mental health outpatient clinic). These experiences can often help focus your career
1. Investigate graduate programs in either educational or school psychology. Once you find a program that fits your interests, identify a faculty member whose work appeals to you. Read a recent publication by this faculty member and generate questions about this work. Consider contacting this
2. Contact a school psychologist within a school or school district that you previously attended as a student. Inquire about the possibility of interviewing him or her, either in person, by phone, or by email, to gain a better understanding of the nature of their work and their career choice.
3. Think of an aspect of your learning or functioning in a school setting that has been a source of difficulty (e.g., reading comprehension, social relationships, stress management, study habits). Conduct a literature search to find articles in education and school psychology journals that address
1. Using your college’s course catalog, identify courses that are related to exercise and sport psychology. Answer the following questions for each course.a. What department offers the course?b. Is it an undergraduate or graduate level course?c. Is it part of a concentration, minor, or major
2. Using the consultant finder on the AASP web site (http://www.appliedsportpsych.org/certified‐consultants/find‐a‐consultant), find a certified consultant in your general geographic area. Answer the following questions based on the consultant’s profile:a. Where is the person employed?b.
Would you add or change anything to the ethics code that psychologists are asked to follow? Why?
When should people be institutionalized for mental problems? What kinds of restrictions, if any, would you place on people with severe mental disorders?
What are advantages and disadvantages of self-help groups, especially in contrast to seeing a mental health professional?
If you were to see a therapist, what questions would you want to ask and what do you think the process would be like? If you have been in therapy or are currently seeing a therapist, what aspects of treatment have you appreciated most and least?
Think about television shows or films that involve therapists and their relationships with their clients. What strikes you as realistic or not realistic about these relationships? Why?
What ethical principles regarding treatment are psychologists expected to follow?
What ethical principles regarding assessment are psycholo- gists expected to follow?
What general ethical principles are psychologists expected to follow?
What questions apply when judging the content of a research article on treatment?
Outline major limitations on treatment and caveats one should be aware of when conducting therapy.
What areas of public health policy have been targeted toward people with mental disorders? What are key rights for people hospitalized with mental disorders?
What areas comprise forensic psychology?
Outline key concepts related to residential treatment of people with pervasive developmental disorders.
Describe aftercare services and problems potentially associated with them.
What are major advantages and disadvantages of self-help groups?
Does therapy work, and what are advantages and disad- vantages of manualized treatments? What is prescriptive or personalized treatment?
What nonspecific treatment factors also contribute to therapy success?
What active treatment ingredients seem to contribute most to therapy success?
How might one go about becoming a mental health profes- sional or client?
What are different types of psychologists, and how do they focus their work?
What do you think can be done to reduce the prevalence of neurocognitive disorder in the general population?

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