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";
- 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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