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What's the most important skill you need to be a psychologist?

I'm aware that different jobs require different skills. I'd like to know the most useful skill in this course to have.

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Kelly’s Answer

The most critical SET of skills rests under the heading of active listening. Deeper listening than "normal listening." It's applied across contexts and psychology terminal degrees. Also working with one's cognitive biases are critical and ongoing work.
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Katherine’s Answer

Besides what Kelly says, it's important to know what's out there that's probably various degrees of accessible for people in terms of psychological help, books, platforms, people, methods of therapy, what's evidence-based, which therapies have been shown to best help which particular psychological problems, meds, etc. If you are always trying to stay aware of the newest books that have been written, and some of the people who the average teen or tween or adult is hearing from on all social media and YouTube, and so on, you'll know when you can second something from someone like that that a person has already heard about, or when you would probably over time find yourself refuting a few certain things that a certain person has said and is currently popular and being heard a lot about.
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