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Click the link below to see how you can become a Psychologist!
https://www.bps.org.uk/public/become-psychologist
Psychology at Horsforth School
Year 12
Students engage in several disciplines of Psychology, focusing on different perspectives of understanding behaviour and how this is linked to psychologists. We explore the role of a clinical psychologist in ‘Psychopathology’; Behavioural Psychologists in ‘Attachment’; Behavioural Psychologists in ‘Social Influence’; and Cognitive Psychologists in the ‘Memory’ topic. If students choose to study Psychology at undergraduate level they will choose which area they will focus on.
Year 13
Similar to year 12, students will engage in a variety of sub-topics which demonstrates different career paths within Psychology. Notably in the second year this includes Forensic Psychologists in understanding criminal behaviour. In addition, students also explore Psychodynamic, Humanistic and Cognitive Neurosciences as possible career paths.
Over the two years there are explicit references to the economy in how Psychological research impacts on growth of this both financially and behaviourally.
Psychology Reading List
Clinical Psychology: The Skeleton Cupboard: Stories From a Clinical Psychologist by Tanya Byron Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy by Irvin D. Yalom
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment by Martin E.P. Seligman
The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
Biopsychology/Neuroscience
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Book by Oliver Sacks
The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science by Norman Doidge
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams Matthew Walker
The Gendered Brain: The new neuroscience that shatters the myth of the female brain Gina Rippon
Forensic Psychology
Criminal Shadows: Inside the Mind of the Serial Killer by David Canter Mapping Murder byDavid V. Canter
My Life with Murderers: Behind Bars with the World's Most Violent Men by David Wilson
The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist by Kerry Daynes
Attachment/ Social Influence
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love by Amir Levine
Becoming Attached: First Relationships and How They Shape Our Capacity to Love by Robert Karen A Secure Base by John Bowlby
The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zimbardo
BPS accredited University courses
https://www.bps.org.uk/public/become-psychologist/accredited-courses?type=CONV
Copy and paste the link above to see where in the country you can study psychology. Accredited courses are very important if you want to pursue a career as a psychologist.