Friday, August 1, 2008

Juridical Psychology

Juridical Psychology is a new area of application of the psychology, specially in Chile.
It is very interesting because it connects the psychology knowledge with the juridical system. Is a growing-up disclipine that everyday is getting more important at the time to establish the juridical sentences, because the psychologists can be very helpfull to the judges.

Up to now I have learned a litlle bit about it, because this discipline is very complex and it needs a lot of time and professional development to get really involved in it.
But anyway, I have discovered a new way to get closer to the juridical system, specially to the criminal issues. Also, I learned the importance of interdisciplinary work between the psychology and other sciences.
I would like to help through the juridical psychology to the social reinsertion of people who are in jail, working in different reinsertion programs.
If you want to know more about this topic, you can visit the following link:.
http://www.eksperts.gold.lv/psychology_en.html

Some interesting websites

  • Looking in the Internet I saw a very interesting web site. It is special for the ones interested in psychology and social psychology in particular. The site contains more than 15,000 links related with social psychology. It also contains a browser where you can specify if you are searching special information of your interests or if you are searching for a quick search. You can read the website in 5 different languages: English, Spanish, French, German and Italian.
    http://www.socialpsychology.org/

    Another interesting website is this: http://www.bps.org.uk/careers/areas/educational.cfm
    This site belongs to the British Psychology Society. It is specialized in educational psychology. You can look for important conferences and events related with these topics. You also have access to relevant publications. Finally there is an special area about professional development.

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Tuesday, July 1, 2008

My last Weekend

My last weekend was very entertaining and I did a lot of things.



First of all, on Saturday, I started training judo in the morning and then I went, with my judo-partners, to have some lunch. Afer that, in the afternoon, I went with other friends to a concert. The band that was playing, was Los Muertos de Cristo, one of my favorites. That was the last concert of the spanish band in 20 years of being playing. So, you can now imagine how motivated I was that day.





At last, in the night I went to a party on a friend´s house, but I was so tired at that hour that I went to sleep very early (at 2 a.m.)








My Sunday was quite diferent. I passed the day with Dani. We cooked chinese food and saw some films together. It was much more quiet than on Saturday. I mean more quiet because I had a lot of fun with she, but in a diferent way than on Saturday.

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A good song: The American Jesus (Bad Religion)

Hi again,

Today i´m going to present you a song, that I like very much. I find, that the lyrics and also the melody of the song are both great, so I learned to play it on the bass. The name of the song is "American Jesus", from the band Bad Religion.

Bad Religion is a north american punk-rock band, formed in 1980, who´s only constant member has been Greg Graffin (the vocals).

In a very ironic way, the lyrics of "American Jesus" tell us about a world that is governed by a new faith, which is the nationality of the United States and its hypocritical policy. That world is supossed to be the world we are living nowadays.
This song contains therefore a social critique and that´s why I have chosen it:



American Jesus
I don't need to be a global citizen,'
Cause I'm blessed by nationality,
I'm a member of a growing populace,
We enforce our popularity
There are things that seem to pull us under and
There are things that drag us down,
But there's a power and a vital presence
That's lurking all around
We've got the American Jesus
See him on the interstate,
We've got the American Jesus
He helped build the president's estate
I feel sorry for the earth's population'
Cause so few live in the U.S.A,
At least the foreigners can copy our morality,
They can visit but they cannot stay,
Only precious few can garner our prosperity,
It makes us walk with renewed confidence,
We've got a place to go when we die
And the architect resides right here
We've got the American Jesus
Bolstering national faith
We've got the American Jesus
Overwhelming millions every day
He's the farmers' barren fields, (In God)
He's the force the army wields, (We trust)
He's the expression on the faces of the starving millions, (Because he's one of us)
The power of the man. (Break down)
He's the fuel that drives the Klan, (Cave in)
He's the motive and the conscience of the murderer (He can redeem your sin)
He's the preacher on TV, (Strong heart)
He's the false sincerity, (Clear mind)
He's the form letter that's written by the big computer, (And infinitely kind)
He's the nuclear bombs, (You lose)
He's the kids with no moms (We win)
And I'm fearful that he's inside ME (He is our champion)
We've got the American Jesus
See him on the interstate
We've got the American Jesus
Exercising his authority
We've got the American Jesus
Bolstering National faith
We've got the American Jesus
Overwhelming millions every day
One nation under God(x10)

We can also see the music video of This song in: http://www.youtube.com/v/-lOcRI37cu0&hl=en

Bye, bye!
Up to the next time!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Me and my Blog

Hi,

Welcome to my new blog!
My name is Juan Williams and here you will learn a little about my life. First of all I need to say that I`m a psychologist student who is also studing a English subject this semester.
Because an activity of that English subject is that I needed to create this blog and write about myself. So, let`s start.

I`m twenty-one years old, I live in Santiago of Chile, particulary in La Florida and I am in my fourth year of University. My family is composed of four persons: my father, my mother, my sister and me; also I have a very nice girlfriend, who`s name is Daniela.
Some of my interests are the sports, the politics, the food and traveling.

Finally, I only have to say that I will write in here soon again, so keep visiting this blog.
Bye!!!