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Ahhh here is a topic that I could and have talked about for days! I don't know how many papers I've written or how many group lectures to staff I've given on this very topic. But here it is again one more time! Reason #1 ~ When you are talking with a professional in the mental health field you might be speaking with a medical assistant, physicians assistant, case worker, social worker, counselor, therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist or even just an MD ... and ALL of these have VERY DIFFERENT educational requirements and professional concentrations which in turn creates VERY different understandings about what 'mental health' issue are as well as VERY different ways to go about treatment. Reason #2 ~ Compounding Reason #1 is WHEN the person you are speaking with went through school, as depending on the era they attended school, the core concepts and overall focus (such as behavioral vs cognitive) could have been VERY different than that of current understandings as well. This is a KEY reason for the overall lack of understanding in things like Epigenetics and Neuroplasticity by many professionals as these terms are just now making their way into MY textbooks! (Although the field itself has been out there for more than a decade). Reason #3 ~ The lack of interdisciplinary education ... meaning that case workers don't really learn much about the psychology of behavior, and medical workers learn even less about psychology. Most don't learn about the developmental aspects of psychology or behavior or the biology of behavior and they miss most of the social and cultural aspects of behavior. So even if your path is 'clinical' it could still miss major parts of the overall understanding of 'why' the person in front of you is experiencing what they are experiencing. Reason #4 ~ The REALLY good stuff comes on your way to and AFTER you become a doctor! Awesome topics like psychoneuroimmunology, neuropsychology, Epigenetics, Nutrigenomics, Endocrinology, and the rest of the never ending list of $10 words ... only really go in-depth on Post Masters and ABOVE! So although I give people LOTS of shit about not knowing these things ... they are truly just ignorant of the information as they didn't come across it in school. Reason #5 ~ Not everyone is a psychology super freak like me! Not only have I studied that LONG list of topics under "about us" but I've read SEVERAL books on each one of those topics. Take developmental psychology for example ... I've studied FIVE different textbooks on it. Why? Because each one points out slightly different things and depending on when it was printed, each one stresses certain factors over others (See Reason #2). And, as I've pointed out in the past, I read research for fun, so it is EASY for me to stay up to date on things and get both sides of the coin on the understanding of things ... because I dig into the research for MYSELF and don't just accept what is 'spoon fed' to me through isolated research or biased findings.
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