English to afrikaans meaning of

Volgens die Oxford English Dictionary is 'n sielkundige "'n kenner of spesialis in sielkunde, die wetenskaplike studie van die menslike verstand en sy funksies, veral dié wat gedrag in 'n gegewe konteks beïnvloed." 'n Sielkundige het tipies 'n graad in sielkunde en gebruik wetenskaplike metodes om menslike gedrag, geestelike prosesse, emosies en persoonlikheid te bestudeer en te verstaan. Hulle kan in 'n verskeidenheid instellings werk, soos navorsingslaboratoriums, universiteite, klinieke, hospitale, skole en privaat praktyke, en kan spesialiseer in areas soos kliniese sielkunde, beradingsielkunde, ontwikkelingsielkunde, sosiale sielkunde of neuropsigologie.

Sentence Examples

  1. Heck a psychologist degree would better help him understand the woman.
  2. She now lives in Melton, a country town just outside Melbourne, working by day as a psychologist and beavering away by night as a novelist.
  3. A memo between a psychologist and the school mentioned something about counseling.
  4. His long-suffering girlfriend had left him, although the psychologist understood the strain she must have been under.
  5. Go talk to a psychologist, or go sit on a beach, or something.
  6. As a respected psychologist, she had no trouble dealing with the aggression, but the personality shift intrigued and, if she were honest, excited her.
  7. At the same moment the psychologist finished reading this brief outline, the constable was edgily surveying the framed certificates on the waiting room wall.
  8. Just the thought of my being considered a case for a psychologist made me rage.
  9. The same little girl who was forced to go from one psychologist to the next because she saw her guardian angel and no one believed her.
  10. She took a year off from studying to ride a motorbike around Australia before working as a mathematics teacher and school psychologist in England and Australia, a bicycle courier in London and running a pub in outback New South Wales.