how to be a psychologist?

Answer 1

You have 4 years of undergraduate college. After graduation, you should get some real experience before heading onto grad school. It will prepare you in more ways than one. While you are working, begin researching graduate schools. Look at everything from the program, to costs, to the internship placement rate. Then apply to a program, call for questions and go on an interview.
When you are accepted, your first year will consist of only classes. Many schools suggest that you only focus on education and not work part-time (although I worked full-time and it was a nightmare). You will take the basic courses your first year. Before you head to your second year, consider getting your masters. Some grad schools allow you to get a terminal master's degree. Do it. Some clinical internships will only consider you if you have a master's. The second year, you will have a lighter load of classes, but will take your first practicum. This is basically a 9 month internship doing either therapy or testing. Third year, you will take a second practicum and begin studying for your comprehensive exam and writing a dissertation proposal. In the spring/summer of your third year, you will take your comprehensive exam (or comps) to assess and apply everything you learned in the past 3 years. If you pass, during your fourth year, you will start looking for clinical internships. This is a nationwide search and highly competitive. Basically, you will apply to about 15 sites, get interviews at about 6 or 7 and then have to find the money to fly all over the country to go on interviews. You interview from November to February. End of February, on a Friday, you find out if you got an internship. If you get an internship, you then have to prepare for moving (if necessary). Your fifth year, you will be at an internship for 12 months, 40 hours a week, while also completing your dissertation. After you complete this internship AND your dissertation, you will graduate with a PsyD or PhD. You then have 2 choices: you can try to find a place that will let you work as an unlicensed psychologist while providing supervision or you can get a postdoc. After practicing for awhile under a licensed psychologist, you can then apply to take your licensure exam (the EPPP). The number of hours of experience required depends on your state. If you pass your EPPP, you are then technically a clinical psychologist.

Answer 2

You need to have a degree in it to start with, you have to be interested in it and have some experience of it before you can even think about becoming one. It's a lot of hard work but if you want it you will get it, when you eventually find a job.

For more info go to the bps website.

Answer 3

first, youll need to obtain the relevant qualifications - most likely a university degree. Then you persue employment through a specialist agency.

Answer 4

u need to do atleast pg in psychology with a specialization .

after that u need to take permission from the govt to setup a clinic.

then u will becalled a counselling psychlogist.

Answer 5

make a bunch of crazy statements that you'll never be able to prove...

do wierd experiments on people, and blame all of humanities problems on the parents and repressed sexual tensions..


now you are a psychologist... wasn't that easy... and I just saved you a ton of money by not going to college.

Answer 6

College, hard work, big heart and not in that order

Answer 7

http://www.guidetopsychology.com/be_psy.htm

http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos056.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/5353/classes/outlook.html