I figured I'd best update this as I've changed my idea for my dissertation yet again! However, I am 100% sure that this idea will actually stick! Having spoke to Paul and also my dissertation supervisor I have decided to look into the understanding of self-harm (including definitions of self-harm) of those who are not self-harmers.
The main reason for changing my idea was mainly ethics, as I learned it would be very difficult to pass the ethics committee if I was to actually work with self-harmers directly, due the risks that could occur by feelings triggered during the research. The good thing is that I don't have to abandon the idea completely, I am hoping that in a few years time the original topic will be something I can come back to once I have a bit more experience of psychological research.
On top of my dissertation project, there's also a very interesting project happening for my ECA in my positive psychology module. It's basically a report of a positive change that we are going to make about ourselves, I'm super excited to carry out (yes I know, I'm nerdy :P). This week the task has been to observe our behaviour to help us choose what we want to change and it's been a very insightful week so far! There's also public and private blog on our blackboard page which I'm also excited about because I loooooove writing! Lmao! Just hope I don't post too much, or end up posting things that are a bit too personal! Must remember that it's mainly to track progress of how the change is going, and not a counselling site! lol!
Oooh! That's not the only exciting thing that's been happening! We're making a psychology society at the university! I am REALLY excited for that, it's amazed me that one of these hasn't already existed as it's going to be a great way to share ideas, debate topics within psychology and other cool stuff :). One of the things I'm hoping to get out of it is that I might finally find a subject that I am 100% passionate about, at the moment I'm flitting between everything and don't really have an area of psychology that I'm interested in, as I like all of it. Not that that's a bad thing, I just think it would be easier for me in the future to know what areas I'd like to work in (apart from clinical psych) so that I can make choices that suit that, but we'll see :).
One sucky thing has happened, and that is that the module choices this year are a bit pants. More so because the only module that holds any interest to me is the learning disabilities and we have to pick two from the choices, so I'm going to speak to someone this week hopefully, to see if I can get some advice!
Also, maybe I should rename this "University, eek!" as I seem to talk about more than just my dissertation!
