Picture credits to owner As we know, conflict is inevitable, but the way individuals approach conflict resolution is heavily influenced by their attachment style. The thing about conflict resolution is that there isn’t a singular approach. In fact, there are many strategies to use to overcome conflict and in this article, we will cover a few of those strategies. [...]
Some students doing their psychological studies may be working a full-time (FT) job at the same time. This is quite common especially for those doing their studies in a PEI (private education institute). The question is: Can you handle all the load??? Often it is assumed that if you are studying in a night course, you are doing a part-time [...]
I have been asked before: Is this school better than this other one?? I should answer this question here for a reminder for those who have asked me before, and also for those who are planning to ask this question. This post may or may not cover the local universities, as most people who have asked were comparing amongst the [...]
Before you start reading on, please read this post regarding the comparison of Bachelors degrees first. Ok, I have received several emails from readers regarding their choices of Bachelors degrees, and one common thing they often do is to choose one Australian and one UK degree, and ask me to compare on which is better. However, I always have some [...]
Hi Everyone I am a graduate from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Diploma of Psychology & Community Services. I took interest in Psychology when I was in secondary school and hence studied real hard to get it in. However, several questions do arise after graduation. What if I want to continue to pursue Psychology as a career? Do I have enough funds [...]
I have always been writing posts that promote psychology, and it seems like now is the time to be critical and think about the opposite direction as well. Yes, you want to do psychology and may be suitable for psychology, but is psychology really a good choice? If you think it through, actually psychology doesn't seem like a very good choice. [...]
Australia is one of the favourite places for undergraduate and postgraduate studies in psychology. This is probably due to the shorter distance and lower cost of programs in Australia, as compared to UK and America. However, a lot of people would still ask how to become a psychologist. If you have been following this blog, you should know that just [...]
Studying for exams always require a lot of preparation. As mentioned earlier, you need to have studied the materials in some ways or methods before you start preparing for the exams. You will need to read through all the material thoroughly, if you have not studied anything during the semester. So what would be the results of good preparation for [...]
Psychology is becoming such a popular subject and program that there are a lot of schools (private and government-funded) that offers psychology programs. In this post, I will mainly focus on the local and non-private institutions as they tend to be the most popular, and the ones which tend to be thought of first when considering for diploma and degree programs. The [...]
I have brought this analogy up in previous posts but it may not be obvious to how it also symbols the education and work specificity of people studying psychology. This is something we all learnt in primary and secondary schools in Singapore in health education. It is the Healthy Diet Pyramid. This picture is from the Health Promotion Board of [...]