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";

• 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