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Can Anyone Here Provide Some Direction for Educational Goals?

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I'm 30, have struggled with college in majors that have relied heavily on highly subjective grading and success metrics and now I'm considering returning to work towards a degree in psych. I've taken a while to consider the direction I'd like to go upon completion of the degree and I think what I'd like to go towards after I get through the program is research for and development of male-centric treatments of mental illness and or issues socially. Ideally this would be a more research focused area with a less clinical treatment methodology and more natural approach like creating new leagues and foundations that allow men to interact with men in ways that are necessary for men to be men. Think Boy Scouts or Fraternal Brotherhoods with a focus on mental and social health much like what the YMCA used to be.

I'm basically restarting college at this point so I'll be returning to 100 level classes and that's fine, I know it will take some time to get anywhere, but can anyone advise me on how to make this goal a reality? Obviously I'll need to make it through a bachelors and most likely through a doctorate, but are there any schools that would be better to look at for post grad and how do I figure out which ones are worth attending?

Posted Aug 10, 2020, 5:56 PM UTC

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18179388•

Go in to the trades and you can make 6 figures within first 3 years usually with out student debt in many cases. Trade school is 3 years usually and is paid for by governments in Ontario

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Delta_DeConstructOP•

I'm not interested in making money, if I was I would have gone into welding professionally.

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18179388•

Very true, trades opened many options for me, I owned a large franchise for 2 years and then went and became a teacher in both high school and college. Your right if it was about the money I would have stayed in the auto industry but I found my reward In helping young students understand cars and giving them confidence to own and maintain a car or at least not get ripped off when they need it fixed. Trades allow a lot of flexibility with directions your career can go, and from what I’m seeing it’s not fragile when the economy becomes turbulent and always has demand in all countries for men and women.

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midnightviking21•

While psychology is a scientifically rigorous field there will still be subjectivity to it as all fields have them as well as the fact it deals with humans. My advice is use as many of your prior credits as possible.

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Delta_DeConstructOP•

Not as much subjectivity as Graphic Design, Illustration, or Audio Production.

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midnightviking21•

Still more subjective than Computer Science. But that's beside the point. If you enjoy it and think you can stick all the way through then do it. Just don't expect the courses to be free from subjectivity.

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Delta_DeConstructOP•

Well yeah, but I'm also aware that I'm looking at a softer science and I'm doing so intentionally. I'm more interested in certain aspects of the fluidity of the study for implementation of treatment for what could be considered a marginalized or neglected group when it comes to mental health treatment. I've been in therapy since I was roughly 14 and have found that nothing works for my mental health besides doing what is suggested by Peterson specifically in having something to be responsible for and treating yourself like someone worth taking care of. I've noticed some things and someone in my family works with vets and I'd like to implement his methodology of rehabilitation to treatment of emotional trauma and illness in the civilian world.

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Delta_DeConstructOP•

While I'm interested in why you bring this up, I will answer the questions.

IQ [while irrelevant past adolescence]: 146 and 148 at 14 and 18 respectively

ADD Diagnosed at 13

Severe Acute Anxiety Disorder at 19

C-PTSD at 28

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Delta_DeConstructOP•

I DID struggle in college because I watched as the Bahaus methodology of teaching Gestault Principle was stripped from art school curriculums across the country due to new accreditation standards that were being implemented while I was in school. I dealt with female professors that forced men out of their classes, and I dealt with professors that didn't teach foundations correctly (an area I knew quite well because of my AAS in the topic and prior education starting my junior year of high school) to no repercussion from the schools in which they taught. The benefit here is that I have no foundational knowledge of psych beyond my 101 class that I've taken twice and gotten over 100% both times and my own personal interest and nearly a decade and a half reading about.

You're not talking to someone that is ignorant of the system, I've been trying to get a bachelors for nearly 10 years now, and took a couple years off after my ex tried to get me to kill myself.

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