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CHS AP Psychology Unit 1: Science of Psychology • Essential Task 1.2: Distinguish the different careers in psychology (clinical, counseling, developmental, educational, experimental, human factors, industrialorganizational, personality, and psychometric) Counseling vs. Clinical About 50% of all Psychologists fall into these categories • Clinical • Counseling psychologists are psychologists deal with “normal” problems, such as stress caused by career change or marital problems • Counseling psychologist’s focus more on the psychologically healthy individual where clinical focuses on individuals with serious mental illness (e.g. schizophrenia). • Career options include: – Licensed social workers – Counseling psychologists concerned with diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders • Split time between treatment and researching the cause of psychological disorders and the effectiveness of different types of psychotherapy and counseling. • Career options include: – Clinical psychologists – Psychiatrists – Psychoanalysts Developmental • Study of physical and mental growth from birth to old age • study of changing abilities from womb to tomb • Subfields – Child psychology – Adolescent psychology – Life-span psychology Educational • School Psychologist • Psychological evaluations • Consult with school personnel in relation to students’ learning, behavior, and environments • They are trained to look at the effectiveness of academic programs, classroom agendas, and treatment interventions, which assists in the development of specific interventions. Experimental • Design research experiments • May or may not have a direct impact on the treatment of patients • Animal subjects • Drug trials Industrial Organizational • Study of psychological principles in industry and business • Examples – Selecting and training personnel – Productivity improvement – Optimizing working conditions – Managing the impact of automation on workers Personality • looks at the patterns of thoughts, feelings, and behavior that make a person unique. • Study of how people differ from one another on traits such as – – – – – Conscientiousness Agreeableness Neuroticism Openness Extraversion • Administer personality tests such as the MMPI or the Myers Briggs Psychometric • the field of psychology concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement. • Create psychological tests that are reliable and valid.