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Honours B.Sc Psychology graduate, currently working as a research assistant + data analysis intern. Prospective grad & postgrad student. I want to conduct research with other scientists, and advocate for public policy reform with likeminded people.My approach to psychology holds intersectionality, the biopsychosocial model, harm reduction, and social justice as my pillars. I firmly believe any facet of psychology has a responsibility to utilize their knowledge of what is most beneficial to life quality so as to influence, advocate for, and make direct action towards policy and systemic change.┈ ┈ ┈ ┈ ୨♡୧ ┈ ┈ ┈ ┈I'm particularly interested in affective cognition and social neuroscience. ☕My research pertains to the field of affective-cognition. Currently I am researching stigma based perceptions and their consequential behaviours towards people with non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) scars and people who perform non-suicidal self-injurious behaviours. There is a lot of nuance to why there is research into this topic, so I will digress. And, as I have lived experience with NSSI, it is a topic very close and important to me.┈ ┈ ┈ ┈ ୨♡୧ ┈ ┈ ┈ ┈"The great scholar W.E.B. Du Bois challenged America with a question: What does integrity look like in the face of oppression? That prophetic query forces psychologists to interrogate a similar line of reasoning, particularly in a contemporary American reality characterized by inequality, social pathology, racism, oppression, homelessness and political divisiveness. Given our positions as caretakers of the mind, heart and spirit of the people, psychologists must challenge ourselves—like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. did when he spoke before us at the 1967 APA Annual Convention—to tell America about both the rage and hurt that simmer below the surface in black and other communities of color and to help much of white America confront and challenge the denial it seems to live in about what life is like for their culturally different counterparts who live on the margins of society. One place to start is to help America brave the question of: What allows each of you (us) to bear witness to the suffering of others, sit in silence and still maintain our humanity? Is that what integrity looks like?"
- Dr. Thomas Parham"How to integrate diversity and
inclusion into psychological
theory, research, practice and
training? Psychologists need to embrace diversity and inclusion as crucial domains in all aspects of psychology. To achieve these goals, they can incorporate interdisciplinary, holistic, intersectional, multicultural, cultural neuroscientific, and international perspectives into their work. To enhance inclusion, psychologists will expand the diversity construct by including every group that has been perceived as “the other.”
Moreover, psychologists are required
to engage in social justice advocacy.
Finally, there is a need for a public policy psychology, one that will shape health and mental health policy by giving psychology away."
- Dr. Lillian Comas-Díaz