Careers In Psychology: A Guide to Careers In Clinical Psychology, Forensic Psychology, Business Psychology and More: An Introductory Series

By Connor Whiteley

Psychology offers endless career opportunities.

Psychology offers everything from therapists to academics to hundreds of others. A psychology degree offers so many possibilities.

This great, engaging and eye-opening career book offers psychology students and professionals tons of insight into what you can do a psychology degree in a wide range of areas.

If you're looking for psychology career advice, you NEED this book!

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Connor Whiteley
• Release date: Jan 20, 2023
• ISBN: 9798201418403

Connor Whiteley

Hello, I'm Connor Whiteley, I am an 18-year-old who loves to write creatively, and I wrote my Brownsea trilogy when I was 14 years old after I went to Brownsea Island on a scout camp. At the camp, I started to think about how all the broken tiles and pottery got there and somehow a trilogy got created.Moreover, I love writing fantasy and sci-fi novels because you’re only limited by your imagination.In addition, I'm was an Explorer Scout and I love camping, sailing and other outdoor activities as well as cooking.Furthermore, I do quite a bit of charity work as well. For example: in early 2018 I was a part of a youth panel which was involved in creating a report with research to try and get government funding for organised youth groups and through this panel. I was invited to Prince Charles’ 70th birthday party and how some of us got in the royal photograph.Finally, I am going to university and I hope to get my doctorate in clinical psychology in a few years.

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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO LOOK AT THIS?

As much as I and everyone else reading this book probably wants to get onto the good bits about careers in psychology. It is critical that we actually focus on why it is important to look at?

Since everyone reading this book probably does psychology in one form or another, and I can promise you that we all have certain areas of psychology that we aren’t very keen on. For me, it’s business psychology because it flat out doesn’t interest me. For you, it might be social or biological or cognitive psychology.

Yet the thing that helps us get through these difficult areas is the fact we know why it is important. The reason tends to be as simple as knowing we need the information for our exams, but it still helps us to focus.

Therefore, that’s why this chapter is needed, so in case you find a chapter you aren’t too interested later on then you know why it is still good to read it.

I now know that from writing this book how some career options can really take you up surprise.

The Most Important Reason:

As you’ll see throughout the book, knowing where you want to go in psychology is critical from an early start because if know where you want to go then you can aim for it, make decisions that will help you get there and do the requirements that that particular career route requires.

For example, if you wanted to do clinical psychology in the future (forgetting how massive all areas of psychology are) then it is a good idea to start taking clinical psychology modules in your undergraduate degree so you can start to show extra interest and learn more about your future career.

Therefore, if you learn about career options sooner rather later, then this can give you a great goal to aim for when it comes to making decisions about your degree and modules.

Personally, this is what I did with my undergraduate degree because I knew I wanted to work in clinical psychology in the future. Leading me to find a degree with clinical psychology modules and I went from there.

In fact, I managed to find a degree that was a lot more specialised in clinical psychology than a normal psychology degree. Due to my undergraduate degree has a lot more compulsory clinical psychology modules than non-specialised psychology degrees.

Overall, because I made a decision about my possible future career early, it really did help me understand the type of courses, extra things and experiences that I needed to try to do in an effort to improve my employability skills.

Don’t worry.

We will talk about a lot more these things in this book, so pleas rest assured all these types of things mentioned two paragraphs above will be made clear to you.

Massive Overlap

This is definitely something that I realised after writing a lot of the book but there is a massive amount of material in the book that overlaps with each other. For example, you might be reading a chapter on careers in academia and there’s a paragraph or two that applies to careers in business or clinical psychology.

I was rather surprised at how much content overlapped and helped to reinforce or reexplain what was mentioned in other chapters. As well as as I was writing the book out, I too found it very helpful since this overlapping content provided a fresh perspective on that information.

My point is, is don’t skip a chapter of this book. You might hate the idea of working in academia (me too!) but I would still read it for two reasons.

Firstly, you’ll probably find some minor overlapping information which might help you understand something you’ve read in another chapter.

Secondly, it will give you more awareness about what it is actually possible with your psychology degree. As well as whilst this might not be useful right now, it might be in the future. Especially if you go into one degree, find out you hate it, then remember another career you read about and might like the sound of that.

Basically, please give yourself options.

And believe me, with a psychology degree those are hardly in short supply!

WHY DO PEOPLE THINK PSYCHOLOGY IS A BAD CAREER CHOICE?

If you listen or read The Psychology World Podcast then you might have seen the title of this chapter before, but please rest assured it is definitely worth rereading in this form as it will help you understand Careers In Psychology as a whole.

Originally I wrote this post as one thing but it quickly changed into a blog post on employment opportunities after your psychology degree. Since that’s what’s important, lots of people think psychology doesn’t have good jobs. But they are extremely wrong and that’s definitely a theme through this book.

In addition, there is brand new, updated information at the end of this chapter, so definitely reread this chapter and find out why psychology degrees have so many employment opportunities.

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In addition to all the misconceptions and myths around psychology, lots of laypeople believe that