Liz // 24 ♡Hi !!♡ welcome to mi blog

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Honours B.Sc Psychology grad, currently working as a research assistant. Prospective grad & postgrad student.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 primarily interested in ;
- non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), risk-taking behaviours, and rewards system processing
- cognitive-affective components of stigma processes against suicide and NSSI
- research conducted and informed by those with lived experience┈ ┈ ┈ ┈ 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