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Promote psychological health in individuals, groups, and organizations
Clinical psychologists
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Specialize in specific psychological disorders
Clinical Psychologists
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Work in private practice, mental health institutions, schools, universities, industries, legal systems, medical systems, counseling centers, government agencies, military offices.
Clinical Psychologists
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Primarily do research
Cognitive Psychologists
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Study thought processes (perception, language, problem solving, memory, judgment, forgetting, intelligence).
Cognitive Psychologists
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Work as a professor, industrial consultant, human factors specialist.
Cognitive Psycholgists
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Human behavior is influenced by interaction between people and physical, social, political, and economic environments.
Community Psychologlists
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Improve individual functioning by enhancing environmental settings.
Community Psychologlists
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Focus on prevention, promotion of positive mental health, and crisis intervention
Community Psychologists
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Work in federal, state, and local departments of health, corrections, and welfare.
Community Psychologists
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Help people adjust to life transitions or make life-style changes
Counseling Psychologists
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Help with adjustment problems rather than sever psychological disorders.
Counseling Psychologists
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Work in academic setting, counseling center, community health center, business, or
private practice
Counseling Psychologists
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Focus on age-related behavioral changes
Developmental Psychologists
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Used in educational psychology, school psychology, child psychopathology, and gerontology.
Developmental Psychologists
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Work in educational institutions, day-care center, youth group programs, or senior center.
Developmental Psychologists
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Study the relationship between learning and our physical and social environments.Educational Psychologists.
Educational Psychologists
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Work in an university setting, government agency, training programs in business.
Educational Psychologists
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Research basic behavioral processes involving human and/or animals.
Experimental psychology
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Most likely work in a university or research center.
Experimental psychology
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Concerned with psychology’s contribution to promoting health and preventing disease.
Health Psychologist
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Help people live healthier lives by designing, conducting, and evaluating programs to stop smoking, lose weight, improve sleep, or prevent transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.
Health Psychologist
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Employed in hospitals, medical schools, rehab centers, public health agency.
Health Psychologist
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Apply psychological principles to legal issues. Most are Clinical Psychologists.
Forensic psychologists
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Work in university, law school, research organization, law enforcement agency.
Forensic Psychologists
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Study relationships between people and their work settings.
Industrial/Organizational psychologists
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Increase productivity, improve personnel selection, promote job satisfaction, assist in organizational development and training.
Industrial/Organizational psychologists
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Work in university, business settings, or government.
Industrial/Organizational psychologists
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Investigate relationship between neurological processes and behavior.
Neuropsychologists
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Assess, treat, diagnose disorders related to the nervous system.
Neuropsychologists
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Work in neurology, neurosurgery, or psychiatric unit in hospital.
Neuropsychologists
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Study methods and techniques used to acquire psychological knowledge.
Psychometrician
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Develop and update tests and surveys.
Psychometrician
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Employed in an university, testing company, private research firm.
Psychometrician
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Diagnose and treat cognitive, social, and emotional problems that may negatively influence children’s learning or overall functioning at school.
School psychologists
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Involved in the assessment of and intervention for children in educational settings.
School psychologists
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Interested in interaction with others.
Social psychologists
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Study topics like attitudes, aggression, prejudice, interpersonal attraction, group behavior, and leadership
Social psychologists
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Most work in universities and federal agencies.
Social psychologists
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