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Psychology is the study of people: how they think, how they act, react and interact. It is concerned with all aspects of behaviour and the thoughts, feelings and motivation underlying such behaviour. Depending on interest, a psychologist can specialise in diferent areas, most common ones are:
1. Clinical psychology - Clinical psychologists aim to reduce psychological distress and to enhance and promote psychological well-being.They work with people with mental or physical health problems - which might include anxiety and depression, serious and enduring mental illness, adjustment to physical illness, neurological disorders, addictive behaviours, childhood behaviour disorders, personal and family relationships.
2. Counselling psychology - Counselling psychologists apply psychology to working collaboratively with people across a diverse range of human problems.These include helping people manage difficult life events such as bereavement, past and present relationships and working with mental health issues and disorders.
3. Educational psychology - Educational psychologists tackle the problems encountered by young people in education, which may involve learning difficulties and social or emotional problems.
4. Forensic psychology - Forensic Psychology is devoted to psychological aspects of legal processes in courts. The term is also often used to refer to investigative and criminological psychology: applying psychological theory to criminal investigation, understanding psychological problems associated with criminal behaviour, and the treatment of criminals.
5. Health psychology - Health psychology is a new and rapidly evolving area, and can be defined as the practice and application of psychological methods to the study of behaviour relevant to health, illness and health care.
6. Occupational psychology - Occupational Psychology is concerned with the performance of people at work in training, how organisations function and how individuals and small groups behave at work. The aim is to increase the effectiveness of the organisation, and to improve the job satisfaction of the individual.
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