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Psychologists & Neuro-Clinical Psychologists
What type of personality type is needed to become a Neuro- clinical psycologist? This is a question sent to me by one of my subscribers. I appreciate the interest shown by the person in understanding the personality type of neuro-clinical psychologist before deciding whether the profession is the right one her.
Before we understand ‘What type of personality type is needed to become a Neuro- clinical psycologist‘, we need to know the type of work clinical psychologists do.Clinical Psychology is a branch of medicine which investigates the depths and complexities of the mind. This analysis is done for two purposes. One is a general purpose where the clinical psychologist studies the workings of the mind and its influence on the body to develop a better understanding of how the human system works. The second purpose is to help people in therapy and improve their condition through mind-body healing principles.
Psychologists study the mind. The intricate workings of the mind and an in depth study of cognition, behavior, and affect forms the main study of the psychologists.
The specialties of this profession range from psychotherapists to clinical psychologists. Psychotherapists offer mental health services to clients. Clinical psychologists perform laboratory research and constantly strive to understand the workings of the mind. The subfileds of psychology include evolutionary psychology, mathematical psychology, abnormal psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, transpersonal psychology and neuro psychology.
What do Clinical Psychologists do?
Clinical psychologists constitute the largest specialty under psychology. The clinical psychologists are concerned with the assessment of mental health, diagnosis of mental disorders. The clinical psychologists also help in prevention as well as treatment of mental disorders.
Some clinical psychologists specialize in treating severe psychological disorders. Severe disorders may range from schizophrenia to depression.
Some clinical psychologists help people deal with personal issues which may be related to divorce or separation from loved one due to death or some other reason.
How do Clinical Psychologists Work?
Clinical psychologists make their clients express themselves and provide an opportunity for them to talk about things that are clouding their mind in doubt or worry. Whatever is confusing or worrying is shared with the clinical psychologist and he intervenes with the appropriate responses and promotes different ways of interpreting whatever is happening in one’s life. The client helped to understand the problem in all its complexity, and the analysis opens up a multi-view point rather than a one-track feeling leading to depression.
What Personality Types are Best Suited to Become a Neuro Clinical Psyhcologist?
If you want to become a neuro-clinical psychologist you should have the following characteristics:
1. A good, patient listener: You should be able to listen to your clients with an open mind, without any value judgement. You need a lot of patience waiting for the client to come out with the real crux of the matter. Rushing the clients and trying to get the main issue too soon will not be successful as the client may completely shut up.
2. A passion for the workings of the mind: You need a passion to understand how the mind works and how it affects people’s lives. This passion for research into the activities of the mind should be strong enough to withstand the frustrations of the profession.
3. A strong will power and an independent thinking: Most often you need to go along with the clients, empathize with them in order to get them to open up their deepest corners to you. But this should not cloud your thought and you should not get carried away by the clients ideas. You need to have a strong will power and balance of mind to be able to think independently after completely agreeing with the clients way of perceiving life experiences.
There are more characteristics that are crucial for a neuro-clinical psychologist. They will be posted in future posts. Sign up for the RSS feed of the clinical psychology mind body medicine blog or subscribe to the wellness assessment and get blog updates.
The Anatomy of The Mind, Thoughts and Thinking: Learn the laws of your mind and how you can use the miracle powers of your mind to heal your body and achieve your dreams.
The most complex aspect of a human being is the mind. Most people think the human mind is our brain. No its not. There is no anatomy of human body labeled as the mind. This simply means we do not have any body part such as the leg, arm, kidney, heart or lungs called the mind. A physician cannot operate on or remove the human mind just as it is the case with any part human anatomy.
The fore fathers of Psychology wrote extensively on the subject of the mind. Many of them addressed the subject in such complex psychological language attempting to fit their discussions of the subject in scientific terms. As a result many of their writings make absolutely minimal sense, and in some cases meaningless to none academicians.
However, Dr G. Jung, in my opinion is one of these fore fathers of psychology and psychiatry who made extra ordinary effort to understand the subject of the mind and explained the dynamics of it in ways that make it somewhat easier for most to understand. Dr Jung was also a lonely voice among the fore fathers of psychology and psychiatry brave enough to connect the mind to the spiritual aspect of us at the time Dr S. Freud and others completely ignored the spiritual self.
Before, the fore fathers of psychology and psychiatry, scholars in Africa studied and taught extensively on the subject of the mind, body and spirit. Scholars from all over the world especially from the East came to Africa for various studies ranging from Theology, Spirituality, Poetry and Medicine to architecture. Very few citizens of the world are aware that the first Higher Institution of learning in the world is the University of Timbuktu in Africa. Jung expressed in one of his writings that his experience in Africa was the most memorable and enlightening experience of his life.
Hhuman being is created with the mind, the body and the spirit. It is difficult to discuss the mind without confusing it with the spirit because the mind and the spirit have very close connection.
The mind is made up of three levels—the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious.
The conscious mind is the level of the mind you use almost every time you lift a finger, move a box , ask a girl out, make plans for super, make choices and carry out all conscious actions. We all create and every single one of our creations starts with our conscious mind. However, everything we create through the process of our conscious thinking has reciprocal consequences. The conscious mind is our creative powerhouse.
The subconscious mind is the level of the mind that sits quietly in the background very busy taking notes of every thought and instructions coming from your conscious mind. It also monitors all of your bodily functions including the heart beat. Within this level of the mind reside the infinite intelligence, infinite riches and abundance of all the blessings and power we inherited from our creator. The power of manifestation resides in the depth of the subconscious mind.
The infinite intelligence within our subconscious mind knows everything. It has all the answers to everything you can possibly thought and conceive in your conscious mind. It knows how to keep you healthy. It know precisely how every fiber in your body suppose to function and can bring them to their perfect state of functioning at any time. This is the level of the mind the Bible and other books of wisdom refer to having the power to move mountain. Within the depth of this region of the mind lies also the power these books of wisdom documented having the power to grant all you seek; opens all the doors you knock on; and grants all you ask for. All you have to do is belief and have faith in the amazing power with this level of your mind. Faith and belief is the catalyst that propels the power into action.
Here is the secret. Within this level of the mind is the most obedient servant on the face of earth and heaven. When the Bible and other books of wisdom stated we are created in our creator’s image and likeness, and possess the very same powers as our creator—especially the power to create, they are referring to these inherent powers which reside within our subconscious mind.
Chemical Addicted and Substance Abused Mind Is an Undisciplined Mind: Learn how Chemical addiction and substance have affected the minds and brains of our youth, resulting in failing grades.
The cable channel MSNBC started this past weekend a month long discussion on crisis of education in our schools and ways to improve the ever falling grades of our youth. The problem with the discussion is that participants continue talk academic mambo jumbo and ignore to address the big elephant in the room. Just as it’s the case most of the time with most debates on some of our nation’s crisis, participating groups tend to address issues that benefit their special interest groups and constituents. What most of the time never get to be addressed are the real issues of the people involved. In this case the root of our youth’s failing grade and the fundamental relationship of the problems to poor outcome of our education system.
The big elephant in the room that every group overlooks or avoids to address is the fact that over 75% of our youth ages ten to seventeen are either dependant on drugs or are abusing substance/s. This is a conservative number bases on my data working with youths for over a decade now. This number also comes from recent revelation by the youths who came into State’s residential treatment Center I also currently work in. Majority of these kids revealed that eight of ten kids in their various schools are addicted to one and in many cases multiple substances or chemical.
Few years ago, when I helped opened the very first Children (ages 10-17) Crisis Unit in the state of Oklahoma, chemical dependence and substance abuse was related in 8 out of 10 kids admitted for crisis stabilization. 9 out of 10 these kids admitted disliked school and had failing grades or had been kicked out of school for disruptive behavior and in some cases possession of chemical. Almost every single one of the kids has discipline and disruptive behavior issues. Many of these children simply go to school for socialization. A good number of them go to school not to learn anything but to trade and sell drugs by their own admission.
Here is the tragedy of the drug epidemic among our youth. The ten year old kids I worked with few years ago are in treatment with me today as older kids. They are still not making good grades; do not like school or had been kicked out of schools and absolutely have minimal plans for the future. They maintain an average of eight weeks of sobriety after treatment before they were back again to the revolving doors of co-occurring treatment Centers.
One can make a valid case that the following issues need to be addressed—updating and upgrading current curriculums in our schools to meet today’s academic needs; integrated behavior training for teachers; more structured classroom environment; and accountabilities for teacher, school administrators, students and parents.
However, all of these measures would be simply academic if students are coming to school drunk and have drugs-altered brains, in addition to a mindset that school is not important. The class of street chemicals and substances these young people are addicted to and abusing alters and degrades their brain functioning. Their addiction and addictive behaviors make it difficult for them to focus on schoolwork. These drugs induce high risk and explosive behaviors in these kids. The negative attitude and disruptive behaviors these students bring to school creates serious difficulties for classroom teachers and school administrators maintaining structure and safety.
This generation is in trouble. The future of this country is in danger. This is not the time to play politics, cast blames and cater to special interest groups who are primarily interested in imposing their special interest and political agendas on school districts. If this nation is interested in improving the quality of outcome of education and test scores of our children, we must solve the problem of drugs epidemic in our school and neighborhoods.
How can this nation look herself in the eyes of her soul and not save our young people? How can we spend billions of our tax dollars building nations that do not care about us and ignore the crisis of our own children and their future? Most of our treatment programs are inadequate because clinicians are looking at old problems with the same set of eyes, in addition to serious states and federal budget cuts.
We can no longer look at this epidemic of chemical addiction among our youth, and how it affects their overall life with the same sets of eyes we did several years ago. We must bring a comprehensive and integrated approach to these issues. I have been calling attention to these issues for some time now. I will continue to call attention to it and continue to advocate for our children. I will talk to anyone and everyone genuinely interested in the future of these children. Now is the time. This problem cannot wait anymore.
By Dr Chris O’Banye
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Chemical Addiction and Substance Abuse War In our Nation’s College Campuses: Battle fields every parent and caring citizen must join in waging.
Parents, it’s that time of the year again when we send off our young adult children to college. If you do not already know, our Nations college campuses have become the war zones for chemical dependence and substance abuse. This is a special plea to every parent. Please follow the link bellow. Be sure you read the article and watch this socking video on chemical abuse among our college kids. Encourage your college age children also to read and watch the video before they leave home for college. This story and video will give them a different perspective and much greater insight into some of the dangerous myths about academic success they will be facing upon arriving in their respective college campuses.
The enemy—drugs these college kids are facing; some of them for the first time is mean, dirty, slimy, and vicious. It does not fight fair. It does not respect color of your skin and don’t care who you are. It’s more vicious than a pit bulldog and a lion put together. When it grabs hold of a person, it does not let go until it destroys that person or left an indelible damage in the person’s life. It does not stop there. It drags the person’s loved ones with it too and destroys their joy and love for that person.
The drug dealers are no longer the pimps and low lives in the street corners. You would be shocked to learn in this video and article who the modern day drug pushers are.
Please feel free to contact me if I can answer any question for you and your family. You do not and will not owe me a dime for any time I spent answering your question or interacting with you on this matter. It would all be worth it for all of us if you and I can save one young man or woman from the claws of this monster. I battle this enemy every day over control of our young people. I cannot fight this war alone. I need you!
By Dr Chris O’Banye
The Blessings of Failures: Mind-Body-Spirit Connection.
Every single one of us has a purpose in life. Many of us have good idea what this purpose is. Some of us do not. Not knowing what your life purpose is does not change the fact that you have one. What is so amazing about life is that the universe has a way of directing us to our life purpose. All we have to do is pay attention to our lives’ twists and turns.
Many of us who have a sense of our life purpose think there is only way of getting there. Straight line is not always the shortest distance as we learned in Geometry. There are so many ways to get to our lives’ destination. Usually, all of us start in a straight line direction. Along the way our ship got stirred in different direction/s other than the one we thought is the only direction. Many of us usually view these twists and turns of our ship as failure.
There is no failure. What we have in pursuit of our dreams and life purpose is redirection. The ship of life takes different directions and makes several stops. You must be mindful there is always a bag of blessings to be picked up at each stop. There is also always a skill/s to be perfected and life lessons to be learned at each stop. These skill/s and lessons are so crucial and very much needed in strengthening and molding us for success to come. Make no mistake about this, you short change yourself if you waste your time worrying about these stops. You have also short changed yourself if you quit and call your experience a failure or call yourself a failure because you do not like how long the trip takes and how many stops along the way there is to make.
Every successful person failed so many times. If you want to succeed you must risk failing. If you doubt it look at how many years Michael Jordan and John Elway played plaid in their respective leagues before they won championships. Do you realize Babe Ruth struck out 2000 times for every I000 homeruns. Bill Belichick had a losing record almost every where he coached before he started winning with New England Patriots. Do you realize also how many times President Lincoln failed in life and defeated in politics before he was elected the President?
You must not quit. Many people who quit came very close to victory and success before they gave up. Perseverance is a virtue you must hold very there to your soul. Feel passionate about your dream/s. Go after it with everything in you! Do not be intimidated and afraid of failing! Success is the price for failing.
By Dr Chris O’Banye
Suicide Among the Armed Services Population: National crisis of a serious magnitude.
The recent report of increasing suicide among the armed services population is an issue of a serious magnitude. It is a National crisis. What this report represents is a snap shot of what is about to hit every segment of this nation’s economic and labor structure, and may be the world. This is my third warning article in the past sixty days in which I sounded strong warning about the state of our youth’s mental health and chemical dependency crisis. This recent report (Army News Service, July 29, 2010) validates my recent blog articles reporting on the state of mental health and chemical dependence epidemic among our young people.
I have been working with young people for over a decade in various capacities and in different clinical settings. I have enormous interest in young people and studied extensively evidence-based Children and adolescent disorders and their treatments. I strongly believe a generation is as good as the one they left behind. This country is leaving behind a generation in crisis if we do not pay attention to this generation of young people. Our young people are in serious mental health, chemical dependency and addiction crisis. I have not seen it this bad and it keeps getting worst. Because of their long history of chemical dependence, many of them suffer from what we characterize in clinical field as chemical induced mental disorders. This co-existence of mental illness and chemical dependence call co-occurring disorders affect every areas of these young peoples’ lives among which are school, job training and personal responsibilities.
Many of them failed out of schools and job trainings. They have been in and out of juvenile detentions, mental health and chemical dependence treatment facilities prior to becoming of enlistment age into the military. In many cases, their mental illness is camouflaged by their addiction and addictive behaviors. Many of them are suicidal and have attempted numerous times to take their lives. Most of them are on multiple psychiatric medications. Majority of them are not interested in sobriety. Many of them are not capable of holding down a job and are only interested in doing very minimal with the least possibly challenges.
Majority of these young people use the military as the only avenue to rebuild self-worth and hopes for a decent life. Their mentality is that they would survive the military life once they make it through the basic training. For some of them, attraction for the military is part of the dynamics of their mental illness. The problem is majority of these young men and women are not mentally and emotionally fit for the military. It does not seem the military training instructors and commanding structure is trained to deal with the spectrum of complex issues these young men and women bring into the military.
In a national crisis of this magnitude, citizens wonder who is to be blamed. There is a lot of blames to go around. However, finger pointing is not important at this time. There are some clear crystal facts—our young people are in serious trouble. The future of this generation is in danger unless all of us do something right now. The military recruiting system that brings these young people into a system they are not capable of succeeding in is broken.
One can build a valid case that the military’s recruiting screening and assessment tools at the point of enlistment is obsolete and inadequate. This obsolete and inadequate system breeds a weak military strength, and young men and women who believe they have failed again. Their failure and frustrations with life challenges induce increase dependence on chemical and addiction to other substance. Their acute dependence on chemical and addiction to other substances further complicate already existing mental illness leading to increasing rate of suicides among military population recently reported. Let’s face the facts; majority of these young men and women were already suffering from chemical dependence and mental illness before enlisting in the military.
If the military intend to have these young men and women serve despite their mental health and chemical dependence and substance abuse issues, the system has to be in place to identify their disorders and needs at the point of enlistment and adequate care provided to address those issues once they are there. The wave of what we are beginning to witness among the military population is the tip of the ice berg about what the future of the labor force in this country will looks like unless this nation moves quickly and do something today. This crisis will top the AIDS epidemic and will threaten the foundation of our economic and societal stability if nothing is done now. Wake up America!
By Dr Chris O’Banye
Ask Not What Anyone Can Do for You, Ask What You Can Do for Yourself and Someone Else: Mind-body-spirit connection.
Life presents so many challenges to us. The truth is regardless how difficult these challenges are, every single challenge life presents to us builds character, makes us tougher, wiser and richer. Many times these challenges force us to either fight for our blessings or get out of way. The difference between the winners of life challenges and the losers is that the winner seeks the wisdom in every life challenge and understands there are many blessings in disguise. The winner also understands the power to win at all time resides in us. Winners understand we have the power to change any situation that does not make us happy. He/s places no blame on anything or anybody; points no finger; demands for no special treatments; gets up at each life stumble, dusts him or herself up and keep moving forward. The winner always keeps an eye on a hand/s he/s can pull up along the way.
The loser on the other hand, refuses to face life’s challenges, sees minimal blessings in disguise of life challenges, and will not put up a fight to challenge life. He/s cries, complains, and blames everybody and every circumstance. The loser point fingers at everyone and everything but to himself or herself. He/s falls and sits right where he/s is. The loser refuses to get up. He/s makes demands for things he/s has not earned. The loser would never ask for what he/s can do for anyone. A loser simply takes.
Few years ago while I was in adult chemical dependence and addiction in-patients treatment Center, there was a knock at my office door this lovely morning. I opened the door and there was my boss and a young lady in a wheel chair. My boss introduced the young lady to me and stated: “This is Dr…… She is a Psychiatric resident doctor and would be spending some months with us. I felt her first few weeks with you would be a very strong and good start for her.” I could not help to reflect and admire the strength and drive in this lady. I could not help also to vision the challenges this lady had to endure to be in my office that morning, taken into account her physical challenges. Her strength and determination to challenge life took me to a place in my soul where I felt the need to celebrate this lady, Stevie Wonder, late Ray Charles and people like these human beings who reached the pinnacle of life destroying all sorts of life challenges along their ways despite enormous physical challenges that would be ordinarily quite acceptable for excuses.
Each time I read about the lives of some of the most successful human beings, I come away with strong reinforcing validation of my belief in the amazing inherent power every soul possess from our creator. Power so great some books of wisdom characterize as capable of moving mountain. Life most costly lesson many of us never learn is that we give up this power once we begin to believe our faith lies in the hands of others, our elected official, government and some entity other than ourselves.
For so many years, Blacks gave away their inherent power by blaming and pointing fingers at Whites and every other conceivable circumstance. Majority of Blacks who rose up the pinnacle of life neglected the fact that success is a group blessings and not an individual achievement. You cannot look at a tree and say—what a forest. Today, the Whites have fallen into the very same trap by blaming Blacks, immigrants, elected officials, the government, Chinese, the Japanese, everybody and their dogs. The tide of life is so difficult to turn once you give this power up. This is as true for individuals as it is for nations and group of people. The true lesson today however is that the human race has melted into one. Challenge yourself to pull yourself up and also pull someone with you regardless the color of the skin. Ask what you can do for yourself and others. One tree does not make a forest.
By Dr Chris O’Banye
Who Are You? Unlock the secrete to your happiness
One of the most important questions I ask people who come into healing relationship with me is—Who are you? Almost every time most people have no or minimal response to this question. The truth of the matter is most of us never took the time to learn who we are. For many reasons among which are, fear of being accused of blowing our own horn about all the great things we have achieved or accomplished, negative self-esteem of feeling we are not good enough, shame of not living up to our or someone else expectations, and feeling guilty for the things we perceived to be our character flaws and disappointments in life. In the process we run away from looking in and discovering self and what an amazing human being we really are. Many of us find it difficult to reflect on the truth that we are so special. We ignore the truth that we are the most handsome or beautiful person on the face of earth. There is no other person like us anywhere in heaven or on earth. Not even close. No one has your eyes, lips, and smiles. No one has the very same characteristics that make you the person you are. You are powerful beyond imagination and placed on this face of earth to do great things. It does not matter what you have been told about you. The truth is you are amazingly special. Yes you are. But before you can begin your work on earth and truly attain a joyful living, you must discover who you are. Take yourself out on series of dates and discover who you are. Challenge yourself to know you. You will be very happy you did. Life rewards those who challenge it.
By Dr Chris O’Banye
Talking From Both Sides of Your Mouth: Mind-body-spirit connection.
A house divided cannot stand. Life is about the choices we make. There is only one choice. You either choose to succeed or you don’t. You cannot talk from both sides of your mouth. You have already failed any time you embark on a project or life challenges with a secondary plan in case you fail. A war General who has any plan other than a victory plan has already lost the war. Think for a second a situation where you are getting married to Susan/Sam. At the same time you are planning your wedding, you have Angela/Antonio on the side and a secondary plan to marry Angela/Antonio just in case your marriage with Susan/Sam doesn’t work out. You have to be living in a fantasy world if you think for one second that you marriage with Susan/Sam has a chance to succeed. This is more evidence in wellness and healing, especially in chemical dependence and addiction healing. People who come into addiction healing with an unshakable determination and passion to kill their addiction sustain sobriety and win the battle of addiction more than those who believe relapse is part of recovery. One day at a time simply means you have an unshakable determination every single day to win whatever battle life presents to you including your wellness and healing battles. It means your house—Mind-body-spirit is in unity to win every single day. Is your house united in your battle to win life challenges?
Winning is an attitude. Live it!
By Dr Chris O’Banye
Your Thoughts Are Your Prayers: Mind-body-spirit connection.
Many times we wonder why our prayers are not answered. Your prayers are your every day thoughts. Whatever you have as the dominant thoughts of your mind anchored by your belief are your prayers and will come through in your life. If your thoughts are that life will bless you abundantly, and you strongly believes that and sees that in the eyes of your soul, there is no force anywhere in heaven or earth that will prevent it from coming through. There is only one condition and here is why our prayers are not answered. You cannot pray for wealth, health and healing in your life and hate to see those very same things in the life of others. You must want the ship that comes home to you also to come home to your neighbors. You must also celebrate your neighbor’s fortune just as you celebrated yours. What you hate will not bless you. The reason we have so many poor people is that the poor spend so much time creating poverty in their lives by hating the rich and wealthy. You cannot pray for your own wellness and at the same time wishing ill of any sort on another. That is a violation of the law of nature. There is no lack anywhere on earth or in heaven. The only lack existing is in our minds. What are your thoughts? Do your thoughts bless you and others?
By Dr Chris O’Banye
