Hello, I’m Yashica Holmes-Smith… and I have a background in Psychology. I have a B.A. in Psychology, and a M.S. in Applied Clinical Psychology. I’ve been a counselor for over 5 years. However, I’ve always been interested in arts, entertainment, and media; and planned to incorporate the arts in therapy. However, counseling /therapy is no longer a career goal for me. As I started thinking about my dissertation topic and my future career plans I realized how much my interests cohered with concepts of Media Psychology as opposed to clinical psychology.
I define media psychology as the study of the ways people interact with media (including print, images/photos, audio, video, literature, computers, games, etc.). My career plans include media psychology research to learn about ways of using media (music, film, photos, mass communication) to positively influence psychosocial factors, directing programs that allow people to use media, arts, and entertainment in ways that can be casually therapeutic, and producing documentaries featuring creative and expressive artists and their work. I am interested in studying the ways people (individually and socially) interact (cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally) with different mediums of art and entertainment (as creator and/or consumer). I plan to focus on those aspects within my documentaries.
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