what can you do in psychology besides becoming a clinical psychologist?

Answer 1

Besides becoming a clinical psychologist, you can work in different areas such as educational psychology, school psychology, industrial psychology, social psychology, forensic psychology, experimental psychology, developmental psychology, etc. If we define psychology as the science that studies the human mind and behavior, any behavior can be studied from psychological perspective. For example, the American Psychological Association has more than 50 divisions or areas in psychology.

Answer 2

Think, marketing and advertising. Psychology is a HUGE part of this industry.

How does a manufacturer convince a lot of people to buy HIS product instead of someone else's? Knowing how humans think, react and make purchases is a great advantage to a savvy seller.

What would be the point of selling cookbooks at a NASCAR race?

How much children's breakfast cereal could you sell if the box was a plain, puke green?

Why pay millions of dollars for an ad selling Barbie dolls at two in the morning?

Psychological studies help marketeers determine a person's viewing, buying and consuming habits. A company who understands this can place his product in such a way as to make a consumer want it, even if he doesn't need it.

Answer 3

A licensed clinical psychologist is qualified to diagnosis and treat individuals with psychological and/or behavioral problems. Their area of specialty is usually therapy. They are usually in private practice, community mental health centers, psychiatric units/hospitals, courts.........

A licensed psychologist usually administers testing such as IQ, personality, interest inventories.............. This type of psychologist basically does psychological testing. They usually work within a hospital, schools, institutions, courts......

I hope this helps.

Answer 4

Psychometrist
Specializes in administering tests, measuring intelligence and personality factors. Must be able to interpret the answers given by the person taking the test in relation to certain standards. Writes findings meaningful to teachers and educators into reports. Works under the supervision of a trained psychologist.

Answer 5

Lawyer,my background was in psychology, and now I've been a GAL, Guardian at Litem, appointed by the Courts to represent the best interest's of the child(ren), in abuse, family, divorce, visitation, etc., cases for eighteen years.

A lot of my practice is dealing with children who are the victims of either sexual assault, physical abuse or both.

Psychology becomes very useful in dealing with people. (People skills are very lacking in most Attorneys, unfortunately.) It also is extremely useful in dealing with Jury's.

Also psychology would help in: Social work, working with the elderly, business (people skills), almost any type of work is applicable.

Any education is incredibly useful, if it's applied correctly. Having said that, practical experience and day-to-day knowledge is also essential.

I was out of High School for almost a decade before returning to collage. It was an incredibly valuable lesion for me in dealing with real people and understanding their problems.

But only because of the applied information from my Undergrad, Masters and ultimately Doctorate that let's me help. With just the education, I would not have been nearly as effective.

Hope that helps a bit.

Answer 6

Counseling, Social Work, Research,

Industrial Psychologists work with employers to improve worker productivity and job satisfaction.

There's a lot more than this , by the way

Answer 7

I think you can become a well qualified counsellor.Most of the people just need someone to talk to, so if you take this route of councelling as such you will be beneficial to humanity and to individuals. Another suggestion is that you can be a Family therapist. Most Families are breaking apart and they need professional people who will help them in terms of Family Dynamics. I hope you will look and reflect on the matters I have suggested, there are more options you can look at and inqiure from those who are already in the field to suggest to you the options that are useful.
Good Luck in your endevours to help humanity.

Answer 8

You can teach if you have a Ph.D, go into Forensics, work for the Feds, start your own practice. There is virtually limitless opportunities ! (You can also work for court systems).

Answer 9

industrial, organizational, educational, communicational, neuropsychological, etc