Human Services
by: Teagen Parker
- Career Cluster: Counseling and Mental
- Job Choices: Psychologist/Substance Abuse
Psychologist
Developmental Psychologist
- Study how people live
- Cognitively
- Socially
- Physiologically
- Focus on one stage of human development
Clinical Psychologist
School
- Specialize in mental disorders
- Work with patients in order to assess, diagnose, and treat disorders
- Help people manage their illnesses
Different Types of Psychologists
Industrial-Organizational
Psychologist
- Deals with issues in the work place
- Screens job applicants
- Conducts research about management issues
- Trains new hires
Forensic Psychologists
- Use psychology background for legal system
- Testify in court
- Give professional opinion about someones ability to refuse medical treatment or be punished by execution
- Can work in child custody, domestic violence, and adoption
- Assess competency
- Work with child witness
- Perform psychological evaluation