Types of Ethical Dilemmas for Psychologists

Types of Ethical Dilemmas for Psychologists

       There are numerous ethical dilemmas for each job. But being a psychology is like being a priest .You share the same confidentiality as a priest. Even if the patient has things that might endanger himself or others around him you cannot tell anyone. But as a psychologist we can always put them in the mental hospital if necessary. Though there are some things which you cannot solve like a sexually-active patient with HIV, you can always advice the patient to do the right thing. 

         If a psychologist is ever given a patient who he is close to and it may affect his judgement, he can always direct the patient to another available psychologist. If you get too emotionally attached to a patient that it affects the treatment, try to the right thing and refer him to another psychologist. There never was any problem with this. I just had to include it because it as part of the ethical dilemmas mentioned. I instead gave solutions to it.

      Dealing with payment is an issue. Getting psychiatric help is very expensive and as a person and a psychologist you have to choose what is more important. Helping someone or getting money to survive. It all depends on the situation. If you have more than you can ask for, you can always help those in need. This may pose as dilemma to others but to the remaining ones it may come down to common sense. Helping yourself or a person you don't know.

Major Lessons Learned in Philosophy

Major Lessons Learned in Philosophy

     Well first let me just say that the topics I will mention below are the things I've learned during the finals period only. Then let's begin. The most memorable one is the topic about laws. As a teenager going to adulthood it's good to know your rights and duties as a citizen. Like "The right to redress in the event of a violation of these rights". I don't know what that means but I'm sure it'll come in handy someday. Okay so I've just read that it means remedy or compensation for a wrong or grievance. Which makes sense than changing the dress or wearing a red dress.

       The next one is about bioethics. Bioethics is the morality concerned in improving one's self or humanity. An example of this is self enhancement. The type of self enhancement that uses medicine and genetically engineering the human's DNA. There are 4 things to consider for bioethics in self enhancement. Safety -Tampering with DNA is very risky so it can cause health problems. Cheating - Of course we may use self enhancement to cheat our way through life, and cheating in itself is immoral. Excessive Pride- The enhancers propose radically altering our genes in an evolutionary blink of an eye. They want to start adding DNA to embryos and manufacturing new genes to insert in our eyes and ears and muscles. Can the brain and body handle such extraordinary shake-ups? Equality - The rich will be enhanced first. Only folks with cash to burn will be able to afford the fancy new memory drugs or fiendishly complicated new gene transfer technologies. BUT if they ever have an advancement that can get me spiderman powers then I'm all in. I've always dreamed of doing a back flip. 

Human Person and Logical Fallacies

Human Person and Logical Fallacies

      When we choose to put ourselves in to the public, we must expect to receive so much criticism. You will soon find that people will go out of their way just to prove you wrong, and they will use anything they can think of, even hurt you emotionally. Of course, people who often insist upon hurting a person while avoiding the real argument that person presents find fault in his or her conduct or character. This personal attack is the classic fallacy know as argumentum ad hominem or simply"attacking the person."Ad hominem attacks may or may not be true. The point is that an ad hominem is logically fallacious because insults and even true negative facts about the opponent's personal character have nothing to do with the logical merits of your opponent's arguments or assertions.

       Logical fallacies are arguments that have no meaning or unreliable. Ad hominem is one of the best and most used fallacy so I made it as an example. Some people even believe that some logical fallacies can be used as an actual argument. For example the famous Argumentun ad Populum. Celebrities advertising products they know nothing about but the watchers believe it because  he/she is popular. To stop falling for logical fallacies we must ask ourselves. Is the argument related to the topic? If so is it backed up by real evidence?

Cienca y Virtud

Cienca y Virtud 

            Good afternoon everyone. I am much honored to speak before you today. I was always the guy how had so much laziness that if the apocalypse happened outside my window I would still be sleeping in my bed. So much has happened that made me what I am today. But I’ll give you the short version. It was all because of ciencia y virtud, science and virtue. It was the middle of my second semester during my first year here in CEU. As usual I was coming to class without a care in the world and only did enough so that I would pass. But when I received my grade in a particular subject I felt nervous. I had gotten 3.5. It was just the prelims but I got terrified because I might fail. I knew that I needed to get it back somehow so I studied hard. I thought that I could just cheat and get it over with. But that would be wrong plus this subject was something that you could not cheat. I’m not saying that I would if it was plausible. Okay maybe I would. Anyway during the first quiz at midterms I knew that I was ready and I could actually pass. It was an awesome feeling. That feeling when you pass and you actually studied. I never truly felt this before. Because of that I eventually passed. Maybe I did get lazy again from time to time but I always picked up myself whenever. Time came when I really got serious because of this gnawing feeling that all the years I have spent studying would be for nothing.

The reason why CEU’s motto is ciencia y virtud is because having only one isn’t enough. Be it only science would be living without caring what is right or wrong, just doing what is in your knowledge to succeed and not caring about other people. Even though it looks right at some point, you’ll never succeed in life without virtues for they help you make connections and friends. No man is an island; everyone needs help at some point in their lives. This works vice versa. Having only virtue means that not having enough knowledge to get by. Do you know why this is CEU’s motto? It’s because it’s their job to help us succeed. We could just take this lightly and ignore it but it was made for a reason. It’s perfect for helping us be what we want and need to be.