Profiling is not an easy task to accomplish. One must have the ability to focus and study a human being without being distracted. By studying the behavior of a human you can find out almost anything you need to know about them. You can tell when they are lying or nervous. Behavioral science is used in everyday lives. Its used in a physical way to determine where you stand with a person. Its used in mental ways to determine whether or not you will get along with somebody. Many times when you’ve been around someone for a long period of time, you begin to notice different things about a persons behavior. For instance if you sister was lying to you about wearing your clothes, you could possibly tell she lying by a physical change in her, maybe she will stutter or possibly just fidget with her hands. These are distinct ways of analyzing someone’s behavior.
Since I have decided to switch to behavioral therapist, there are different profiles I will be studying. By creating a patients profile, you discover what there problem is. You can decide which disorder or disease they fall under. Once their disorder is decided, you can help them deal with it or slowly get over/ move on with it.
Today in class we were talking about PTSD. We were profiling the soldiers and their behavior to determine whether or not they had PTSD. You don’t have to be an expert to study ones behavior. But if you enjoy it and want to use it to help others It is a good idea to become professional. There are many more careers that involve behavioral science. Whatever career you decide, it is still a good idea to take psychology and sociology classes in college. They will help you in the long run and are interesting classes.
You also decide your friends through behavioral science. You study a persons behavior and personality in order to decide if you want them to be your friend or not. If you find to many personality flaws you cant avoid you simply don’t choose them as a friend. Another way it helps you with your friends is by determining their flaws. Once you determine a persons flaws you try to work around them in as many ways as possible. Everyone uses behavioral science, but many times people don’t notice when they use it.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
change of mind
This weekend I was watching criminal minds. It was an interesting episode. Hodge’s wife was killed by his nemesis, the Reaper. Its an older episode, but it mad me realize that this job takes a lot of dedication. I don’t think I could actually join the behavioral analysis unit. I could never have a family if I did, because your putting everything in your life at risk when you work for the BAU. I have a lot of respect for the people that do this job, because you have to base your life on it. I could not go through life without making a family, so I’ve decided this is not the career for me. I would still enjoy a job like this, and that my goal as of now. I still want to major in behavioral science. I might possibly try a job for NYPD, they have many crimes that behavioral study could help solve.
Finding a job similar is going to be much easier than getting into the FBI. I think I would be happy, even if I ended up just being a therapist. I enjoy helping people and this career is a good way of doing it. I definitely think the BAU and being in the FBI is one of the hardest jobs in the U.S. its probably even harder not being able to tell your family what is going on. This job puts not only yourself but other people at risk. I believe that in order to be in the BAU you need to be older and your kids should be grown up, or just not make a family and focus on the career.
A behavioral therapist would be a good choice for a similar career. This helps people and is basically the same thing. The difference is that you don’t have to people at risk. So from now on im going to focus on my other option because the FBI simply wont fit into my life style
Finding a job similar is going to be much easier than getting into the FBI. I think I would be happy, even if I ended up just being a therapist. I enjoy helping people and this career is a good way of doing it. I definitely think the BAU and being in the FBI is one of the hardest jobs in the U.S. its probably even harder not being able to tell your family what is going on. This job puts not only yourself but other people at risk. I believe that in order to be in the BAU you need to be older and your kids should be grown up, or just not make a family and focus on the career.
A behavioral therapist would be a good choice for a similar career. This helps people and is basically the same thing. The difference is that you don’t have to people at risk. So from now on im going to focus on my other option because the FBI simply wont fit into my life style
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Criminal Minds
Criminal Minds Is a show based in Quantico, Virginia, the Behavioral Analysis Unit is a unit of the FBI. They are called in by local police departments to help in solving crimes of a serial and/or extremely violent nature where the perpetrator is not known. To shorten it they call them unsubs, the BAU use the scientific art of profiling to find and track the unsub. Profiling involves coming up with basic characteristics of the unsub and the victims. Because of the nature of the work put in place by the BAU, the member are very dedicated. The work is time consuming and psychologically demanding, its members are fiercely loyal to the Unit and to its other members. Also because of the work's overall demanding nature, not many members of the BAU have been able to maintain a happy or stable family life.
"Aaron Hotchner
used to be a prosecutor, and was formerly assigned to the FBI Field Office in Seattle. After stepping down for a period of time, he has returned to lead the unit. He has a son named Jack with his former wife Haley. They eventually divorced and remained on good terms until Haley was murdered by the psychopath George Foyet. Hotch's attempts to balance his family life and his job successfully have been something of an ongoing theme on the show.
Emily Prentiss
is the daughter of an ambassador and a US diplomat. After Agent Elle Greenaway left the BAU for good following a case when she had shot an unsub in cold blood, Prentiss showed up with papers stating she was the newest member of the BAU which caught both Hotch and Gideon off-guard as they hadn't signed off on her transfer. She became a permanent member of the team in "Lessons Learned" where it was revealed that she was fluent in Arabic. She also has a tough relationship with her mother. She got pregnant at the age of 15 and later chose to have an abortion. Prentiss is also skilled at chess. In 6x13 ("The Thirteenth Step"), Prentiss receives some disturbing news from her previous boss at Interpol. In the following episode, "Sense Memory", after coming home from work, she notices that someone had been in her house because her cat's back was wet and her window was open. She also received several strange phone calls, with the caller id saying, "Caller Unknown". This also leaves Agent Morgan concerned for Prentiss. Prentiss only appeared in 18 episodes of season 6. She faked her death to escape an old nemesis with the help of both Hotch and JJ while the rest of the team continues to assume she is dead. On May 28, 2011, it was announced that Paget Brewster would actually be returning as Emily Prentiss.
David Rossi
a "'founding father' of the BAU", was in early retirement until his voluntary return to the BAU in 2007, replacing Jason Gideon who had abruptly resigned from the BAU. He had retired in order to write books and go on lecture tours, but returned to settle some unfinished business which wasn't immediately specified. It was later revealed that the case involved three young children whose parents had been murdered in a possible home-invasion case that had remained unsolved. This haunted Rossi for twenty years and prompted him to return to the BAU where he eventually solved it.
Derek Morgan
is a confident and assertive everyman character, the son of an African-American father and mixed-race mother. He went to Northwestern University on a football scholarship, holds a black belt in Judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, and served in a bomb squad unit and as a Chicago police officer. In season 2 it was explained that after the death of his father when he was ten, Morgan struggled somewhat - youthful fighting earned him a juvenile criminal record. He was taken under the wing of a local youth center coordinator, Carl Buford. Buford acted as a surrogate father to Morgan and helped Morgan to obtain a college football scholarship, but also sexually abused him - the episode Profiler Profiled revealed and focused on this. In season 3 it was revealed that he hated religion because, as he said, something bad happened to him when he was 13. He went to church everyday and prayed for it to stop, but it didn't. Because of this, he had a resentment towards God and church. He prayed for the first time in 20 years, at exactly the time he later found out, that Garcia was being operated on after being shot. Former unit chief Aaron Hotchner promoted him to unit chief in Hotch's place, a promotion Morgan saw as only temporary until the "Boston Reaper" was captured. After Hotchner returned following grieving over his ex-wife's murder, he again took his place as unit chief.
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
acts as the team's liaison with the media and local police agencies. She has a son named Henry, with detective William LaMontagne Jr whom she met while the team were working a case in New Orleans in the Season 2 episode, 'Jones'. In the second episode of season six JJ was forced to take a promotion to the Pentagon and left the team for the rest of the season. JJ returns to the show in the episode titled "Lauren" where she receives a call and returns to help the BAU find Emily and capture Ian Doyle before it's too late. When Emily is stabbed by Doyle and rushed to a hospital, JJ announces she didn't make it and died. However, it is later revealed that Emily is alive and JJ meets her at a cafe in Paris where she provides her with three passports and bank accounts to start a new life in hiding from Doyle. On April 15, 2011 A.J. Cook signed a deal to return as JJ for two seasons beginning season seven. At the end of the final scene of season 6, JJ revealed that she wanted to return to the team during a conversation with Rossi
Spencer Reid
is a genius who graduated from a Las Vegas public high school at age 12. He is almost always introduced as Dr. Reid, even as the others are introduced as Agent 'blank' because Gideon knew people would not take him seriously because of his age, as well after an introduction he never shakes hands. It has been revealed that he holds phds in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Engineering, Bas in Psychology and Sociology, and is working on a BA in Philosophy. He claims to have an Eidetic memory, and hints that he could possibly suffer from Schizophrenia since his mother has it. E408 He has also said that he was bullied when he was younger.
Penelope Garcia
is the team's analyst at BAU Headquarters in Quantico, VA. She is flamboyant, fun-loving, and provides the rest of the team with comic relief whenever it is needed. She got her last name from her stepfather, hence the Latina implication, but she is not. She was shot and almost killed in season three. She and SSA Morgan share a very friendly-flirty relationship but never go beyond that. Penelope lost both of her parents at the age of 18 and, as she says, "went off the rails for a while." Penelope taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was grouped with the best hackers in the world. After being caught by the FBI, she was given a choice of living in a high security prison for the rest of her life or working for the BAU division of the FBI as an analyst. She is currently in a relationship with fellow FBI employee Kevin Lynch."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters)
"Aaron Hotchner
used to be a prosecutor, and was formerly assigned to the FBI Field Office in Seattle. After stepping down for a period of time, he has returned to lead the unit. He has a son named Jack with his former wife Haley. They eventually divorced and remained on good terms until Haley was murdered by the psychopath George Foyet. Hotch's attempts to balance his family life and his job successfully have been something of an ongoing theme on the show.
Emily Prentiss
is the daughter of an ambassador and a US diplomat. After Agent Elle Greenaway left the BAU for good following a case when she had shot an unsub in cold blood, Prentiss showed up with papers stating she was the newest member of the BAU which caught both Hotch and Gideon off-guard as they hadn't signed off on her transfer. She became a permanent member of the team in "Lessons Learned" where it was revealed that she was fluent in Arabic. She also has a tough relationship with her mother. She got pregnant at the age of 15 and later chose to have an abortion. Prentiss is also skilled at chess. In 6x13 ("The Thirteenth Step"), Prentiss receives some disturbing news from her previous boss at Interpol. In the following episode, "Sense Memory", after coming home from work, she notices that someone had been in her house because her cat's back was wet and her window was open. She also received several strange phone calls, with the caller id saying, "Caller Unknown". This also leaves Agent Morgan concerned for Prentiss. Prentiss only appeared in 18 episodes of season 6. She faked her death to escape an old nemesis with the help of both Hotch and JJ while the rest of the team continues to assume she is dead. On May 28, 2011, it was announced that Paget Brewster would actually be returning as Emily Prentiss.
David Rossi
a "'founding father' of the BAU", was in early retirement until his voluntary return to the BAU in 2007, replacing Jason Gideon who had abruptly resigned from the BAU. He had retired in order to write books and go on lecture tours, but returned to settle some unfinished business which wasn't immediately specified. It was later revealed that the case involved three young children whose parents had been murdered in a possible home-invasion case that had remained unsolved. This haunted Rossi for twenty years and prompted him to return to the BAU where he eventually solved it.
Derek Morgan
is a confident and assertive everyman character, the son of an African-American father and mixed-race mother. He went to Northwestern University on a football scholarship, holds a black belt in Judo, runs FBI self-defense classes, and served in a bomb squad unit and as a Chicago police officer. In season 2 it was explained that after the death of his father when he was ten, Morgan struggled somewhat - youthful fighting earned him a juvenile criminal record. He was taken under the wing of a local youth center coordinator, Carl Buford. Buford acted as a surrogate father to Morgan and helped Morgan to obtain a college football scholarship, but also sexually abused him - the episode Profiler Profiled revealed and focused on this. In season 3 it was revealed that he hated religion because, as he said, something bad happened to him when he was 13. He went to church everyday and prayed for it to stop, but it didn't. Because of this, he had a resentment towards God and church. He prayed for the first time in 20 years, at exactly the time he later found out, that Garcia was being operated on after being shot. Former unit chief Aaron Hotchner promoted him to unit chief in Hotch's place, a promotion Morgan saw as only temporary until the "Boston Reaper" was captured. After Hotchner returned following grieving over his ex-wife's murder, he again took his place as unit chief.
Jennifer "JJ" Jareau
acts as the team's liaison with the media and local police agencies. She has a son named Henry, with detective William LaMontagne Jr whom she met while the team were working a case in New Orleans in the Season 2 episode, 'Jones'. In the second episode of season six JJ was forced to take a promotion to the Pentagon and left the team for the rest of the season. JJ returns to the show in the episode titled "Lauren" where she receives a call and returns to help the BAU find Emily and capture Ian Doyle before it's too late. When Emily is stabbed by Doyle and rushed to a hospital, JJ announces she didn't make it and died. However, it is later revealed that Emily is alive and JJ meets her at a cafe in Paris where she provides her with three passports and bank accounts to start a new life in hiding from Doyle. On April 15, 2011 A.J. Cook signed a deal to return as JJ for two seasons beginning season seven. At the end of the final scene of season 6, JJ revealed that she wanted to return to the team during a conversation with Rossi
Spencer Reid
is a genius who graduated from a Las Vegas public high school at age 12. He is almost always introduced as Dr. Reid, even as the others are introduced as Agent 'blank' because Gideon knew people would not take him seriously because of his age, as well after an introduction he never shakes hands. It has been revealed that he holds phds in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Engineering, Bas in Psychology and Sociology, and is working on a BA in Philosophy. He claims to have an Eidetic memory, and hints that he could possibly suffer from Schizophrenia since his mother has it. E408 He has also said that he was bullied when he was younger.
Penelope Garcia
is the team's analyst at BAU Headquarters in Quantico, VA. She is flamboyant, fun-loving, and provides the rest of the team with comic relief whenever it is needed. She got her last name from her stepfather, hence the Latina implication, but she is not. She was shot and almost killed in season three. She and SSA Morgan share a very friendly-flirty relationship but never go beyond that. Penelope lost both of her parents at the age of 18 and, as she says, "went off the rails for a while." Penelope taught herself to hack after she dropped out of college and was grouped with the best hackers in the world. After being caught by the FBI, she was given a choice of living in a high security prison for the rest of her life or working for the BAU division of the FBI as an analyst. She is currently in a relationship with fellow FBI employee Kevin Lynch."(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Criminal_Minds_characters)
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