Clinical Psychology - Professional Practice

Professional Practice

Clinical psychologists can offer a range of professional services, including:

  • Administer and interpret psychological assessment and testing
  • Conduct psychological research
  • Consultation (especially for multi-disclinary teams in mental health settings, such as psychiatric wards and increasingly other healthcare settings, schools and businesses)
  • Development of prevention and treatment programs
  • Program administration
  • Provide expert testimony (forensic psychology)
  • Provide psychological/ mental treatment (psychotherapy, or/and psychopharmacology "priscribing psychologists")
  • Teach and Reserches

In practice, clinical psychologists may work with individuals, couples, families, or groups in a variety of settings, including private practices, hospitals, mental health organizations, schools, businesses, and non-profit agencies. Most clinical psychologists who engage in research and teaching do so within a college or university setting. Clinical psychologists may also choose to specialize in a particular field—common areas of specialization, some of which can earn board certification, include:

  • Family and relationship counseling
  • Forensic
  • Health
  • Clinical Medical Psychology in Medicine mental Health "psychiatry";
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  • Organization and business
  • School
  • Specific disorders, and psychosomatics dis. (e.g. psychological trauma, addiction, eating disorders, sleep disorders, sexual dysfunction, clinical depression, anxiety, or phobia, and )
  • Sport psychology
  • Geropsychology

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