More than 50 people came to the 45th annual Psychology Day held by the Psychology Student Association and PSI CHI Honor Society on Thursday. The day is the biggest event of the year for the major.
“We invite programs and organizations from around the Los Angeles area to talk to students about grad school and career opportunities,” said senior psychology student Sara Castro, who is also the vice president of PSA. “We also hold research fairs [and] workshops. It is a big event where we want to provide students with resources.”
The main purpose of the event was to give psychology students more information to succeed during their time at CSULB, Castro said. PSA uses the event to encourage students to be more active in the program and participate in the research that fellow students conduct.
“It’s a great event which provides a lot of opportunities for all students especially psychology majors, we love to come to Psych Day. At Long Beach BLAST we believe in making every student inspired to succeed academically and personally,” said Hailey Baker, the Volunteer Program Coordinator for the Long Beach BLAST organization.
Numerous organizations came to the event and set up the information desk tables for the students. Long Beach BLAST, Active Minds, School on Wheels Inc., Chapman University and Alliant International University of Professional Psychology were among other universities and organizations that came to CSULB and set up their information tables for the CSULB students during the event.
“I’ve volunteered with a lot of organizations, but there is nothing really like this. It’s a very unique voluntary program,” said Emile Kanhai, a recruitment specialist for School on Wheels Inc. “We reach to the homeless population and we work with children one on one.”
Students also had the opportunity to present their research. One of the students demonstrated his research work on anxiety and explained that how many students are directly affected from it. He did the research on CSULB students.
“We promote mental health awareness,” said Leslie Delgado, a senior psychology major student who is also a member of Active Minds. “We want everyone to know about the prevalence of mental health service here on campus. And every one of four students is affected by mental health every year.”
Psychology Student Association is open to anyone who is interested in joining. Their weekly scheduled meeting takes place in LH-150 every other Wednesday.