Psychology Career Research Paper

Psychologists study human behavior by observing how people act and relate to those around them and in their environment. The nine branches of a psychologist are: clinical psychologist, health psychologist, neuropsychologist, counseling psychologist, developmental psychologist, forensic psychologist, industrial-organizational psychologist, school psychologist, and social psychologist. All these branches typically all do the same things, conduct experiments to study human patterns and brain patterns, collect information with tests and studies, and using knowledge they already have. The way a psychologist works is finding out ways to understand the thoughts, feelings, and emotions of who they are helping.

To become a psychologist, it is a rule to have a license or some kind of certificate to practice this career. Typically, most psychologists need a doctoral degree or a specialist degree in psychology. But in some cases, having a master’s degree can be enough. The training to become a psychologist include: a year of an internship, residency program, and pre or post-doctoral experience. Along with the training and certifications for being in this career, a number of important

qualities should be shown. A person needs to have skills to be able to succeed in this path. Important qualities a psychologist should have are analytical skills, communication skills, observational skills, patience, people skills, and trustworthiness. Having these skills will make the person’s job easier and more enjoyable along with making the patient feel comfortable.

In the year of 2012, 31 percent of psychologists were working in educational services and 29 percent worked in healthcare and social assistance.

Out of all psychologists working in that year, nearly one third of them were self-employed. Most clinical and counseling psychologists have private practices and work in their own offices and work at their own time. If not working by themselves, clinical and counseling psychologists may work in work places such as: clinics, hospitals, rehabilitation centers, or community and mental health centers. Majority of the research psychologists work in colleges, universities, government agencies, or private research organizations. Psychologist that work independently set their own hours when they would like to work and have part time jobs at independent

centers.

In May of 2012, the annual median wage, wage which half the workers in that occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less, of pay for psychologist was $69,280. In that year industrial- organized psychologist earned $83,580, clinical, counseling, and school psychologist $67,650, and psychologist for all others earned $90,020. As mentioned before, psychologists in a private setting set and make their own hours and work part time as independent consultants. Some work both weekdays and weekends to help accommodate their clients, and work into their schedule also.

Since 2012, it is estimated that a psychologist job will grow up to 12 percent to the year 2022. Clinical, school, and counseling are estimated to increase by 11 percent from the two years 2012 to 2022. The demand for counseling and clinical will defiantly begin to sky rocket in the next few years. More people in this field will be needed to help people deal with mental; disorders, depression, family and marriage problems, stress, and addiction. Large amounts of people that are in need of a psychologist’s help are the elderly, veterans suffering from post-

traumatic disorder, other people going through some kind of post-traumatic disorder, and people with this disorder autism. The hiring and employment of industrial-organizational psychologist is sky rocket to 53 percent from 2012-2022. They are used to help select and keep employees and increase product productivity. Even though it’s such a high percentage of jobs going up in the future, there’s only going to be an estimated of 900 jobs over a 10 year period.