Psychologists study mental processes and behavior, including how we think, how we perceive the world, emotions, personality, and interpersonal relationships. They formulate hypotheses and collect data to test their validity. Psychologists may use controlled laboratory experiments; administer personality, performance, aptitude, or intelligence tests; or use observation, interviews, questionnaires, clinical studies, and surveys.
Psychologists may also become teachers or faculty members at colleges and universities, where they pursue their profession in the classroom, the laboratory, or through administrative work. Specializations may include:
- clinical psychology,
- counseling psychology,
- school psychology,
- industrial or organizational psychology,
- developmental psychology,
- social psychology, or
- experimental or research psychology.
Psychologists apply their knowledge to a wide range of endeavors, including health and human services, management, education, law, and sports. They may work in applied settings such as business, industry, government, or nonprofit organizations to provide training, conduct research, and design systems.
Several programs at JFK University support your interest in pursuing a career in psychology.
JFKU’s
School of Education and Liberal Arts (SELA) offers foundational programs, certificates, and courses that can contribute to developing skills and abilities as a psychologist, such as psychology; philosophy and religion; science, health, and living systems; social ecology; East/West spirituality; transpersonal studies; integrative health; multicultural studies; and Essentials Coaching.
The
School of Holistic Studies (SHS) at JFK University offers consciousness and transformative studies, integral psychology, transformative arts, and counseling psychology. Your learning takes place within the context of a global culture and a sustainable environment. Using East/West philosophical traditions, SHS professional degree programs in psychology disciplines are founded on our holistic values of inter-connectedness, compassion, diversity, imagination, and community service.
In addition, you may want to pursue professional programs with a clinical focus that are available through JFKU’s
Graduate School of Professional Psychology (GSPP), including the PsyD, the MA in Counseling Psychology, the MA in Organizational Psychology, the MA in Sport Psychology, and the linked PsyD/MA in Sport Psychology.
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