Twelve Emerging or Unconventional Careers in Psychology: A Sample Outline

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY

• preventing disease
• managing stress
• increasing adherence to medical treatment
• modifying unhealthy behaviors and lifestyles
• promoting wellness and community health

APPLIED HEALTH SPECIALTIES

• controlling chronic illness
• managing pain
• treating phobias

PEDIATRIC PSYCHOLOGY

CHILD CARE SERVICES

TEEN SUICIDE PREVENTION

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY

• counseling inmates and probationers
• assisting victims of crimes
• advising courts and police departments
  

PSYCHOMETRICS AND MEASUREMENT PSYCHOLOGY

INDUSTRIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

• enhancing worker motivation and job satisfaction
• counseling troubled employees
• controlling stress in the workplace
• improving the match between man and machines
• modifying consumer behaviors
  

TEACHING AND SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY

• teaching psychology in schools
• assisting the gifted and handicapped
• counseling troubled students
  

ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

GEROPSYCHOLOGY/GERONTOLOGY

• counseling the elderly
• attacking old-age physical disabilities
• providing social and rehabilitative services and care
• enhancing memory skills
• treating mental disorders of later-life

COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY

• preventing mental illness
• providing follow-up care
• offering rehabilitative and support services for the developmentally disabled
• assisting the chronically mentally ill

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