If you have ever thought of becoming a psychologist, this article is for you.
It is mentally challenging, but extremely rewarding to know you're helping people.
Some psychologists are doing their independent research and consult or counsel patients. Others are on healthcare system team and work with some physicians, social workers and others. All are working to ameliorate mental health and treat mental illness.
In one hand, psychologist who work in academic settings have pretty flexible work hour. They do consultation and their schedule varies day by day. Sometimes, they need to work on evening or weekend to accommodate some of their clients. In the other hand, government or corporate psychologist have fixed hours. They can consult or counsel patients, perform examinations or work on research about their field.
There're different types of psychologist. The self-employed worker can have their own personnel office, while doing private practice. Others, such as counselors, educators and researchers are working in educational environments, like in elementary or secondary schools. Some works for the government in locals or office. The others psychologist's works at hospital.
If you want to become a psychologist, you are going to need a doctoral degree. You can obtain that by completing a research degree in Psychology (Ph.D.) or a Doctor of psychology degree (Psy.D.) You need to take a comprehensive exam and write a dissertation which would be based on your original research if you want a Ph.D. You usually need to do a 1-year internship in your doctoral program if you want a Psy.D, which is a clinical degree.
It depends on the types of psychologists. In May 2019, $80,370 was the median annual wage for psychologist. The median annual wages of psychologists, all other was $101, 790. For the industrial-organizationnal psychologists was $92,880. For the clinical, counseling, and school psychologists was $78,200.
The majority of psychologist have a pre or postdoctoral supervised experience, that include an internship. The internship is necessary before having a state license.
As a psychologist, there is always a possibility to be confronted of patients violence, such being as threatened, harassed, attacked or even attacked by a patient that has a weapon. Another danger is the isolation in practice, that can be a stress for a psychologist. There is also the fact that since the psychologist has to concentrate on the emotional problems of his patients, they often repulse their own emotion. That can cause them to become emotionally drained and even to burnout.
There's not a lot many chances that psychologist's get replaced by robots since this is an almost completely social job. Maybe robots could help and replace research psychologist, but they couldn't replace psychologist that are doing consultation. It takes a lot of qualities, such as patience, trustworthiness, communication and others, that can't be surpassed by a robot.
60-65 is the normal retirement age in almost all the country.
In conclusion, psychology is an extremely fascinating for someone who's passionate and who's ready to dedicate many years on their study. Personally, I look forward to doing my doctoral degree and an internship in this field. I believe I got the most important qualities to success as a psychologist, such as communication skills and analytical skills. By this research, I learned that the job outlook for this field looks excellent, with a projected grow of 14% form 2018 to 2028. This is reassuring.
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