What are the different careers one could explore with a degree in Psychology, and what is abnormalpsychology?

Question

I'm going into Highschool this year, and a lot of stress is being put on planning for our futures. At the moment, I am planning on majoring in Psychology or something similar in college, and I was wondering what sort of jobs would be available for someone with a degree in that field.

Obviously, a psychologist is an option. But what about things that aren't normally associated with Psychology? For instance, could one become a teacher with a Psy. Degree? If you don't mind, could people share with the the different fields one could enter with a decent (4-8 year) Psychology degree?

Also, are there other majors similar to psychology?

Please and thank you, much love, people!

Answer 1

There is so much you can do. You are still young. A degree alone (in any subject) opens many doors. You could definately become a teacher.

For a degree in phsycology, you can consider:

Administration
Advertising
Advocacy
Alcohol and drug rehabilitation
Arbitration
Behavioural therapy
Broadcasting
Business administration
Buying and merchandising
Career counselling
Change management
Child care
Clinical assessment
Cognitive therapy
Community planning
Community relations
Community service work
Consumer psychology
Correctional services
Counselling
Crisis counselling
Demographics
Education
Ergonomics
Events management
Expressive arts therapy
Family and couples therapy
Fashion design
Financial planning
Foreign service
Forensic assessment
Fundraising
Gerontology
Human resources
Hypnotherapy
Image consulting
Immigration
Industrial psychology
Interior design
Interpersonal therapy
Juvenile delinquency
Laboratory assisting
Landscape design
Law
Market analysis
Marketing
Mediation
Medicine
Mental health
Military psychology
Ministry
Neuropsychology
Neuroscience
Occupational health and safety
Organizational behaviour
Palliative care
Paramedics
Physical therapy
Police work
Policy analysis
Politics
Poverty
Program evaluation
Psychiatric assisting
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic therapy
Psychometrics
Public relations
Publishing
Relief counselling
Research
Residential care
Sales
Security services
Sign language interpretation
Social work
Speech therapy
Stress management
Teaching
Therapeutic engineering
Therapy
Writing


Hope that helps

Answer 2

I am almost finished my psyc degree and it is one of the only degrees that it is very hard to get a good job with on its own. However, it is a good degree to jump you into a lot of things i.e. counseling, law school etc. Abnormal psyc is just the study of mental illness and stuff. good luck