Categories: Psychology

Branches of Psychology

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Psychology is a science of human behavior that studies the human mind and all the cognitive processes in it&period; For which reason psychology has a record for being one discipline that is closest to examining human experience&period; And because human experience is multidimensional and cannot be understood in one study&comma; psychologists penetrates into all the aspects of mind and its components&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">For the reason that psychology covers a vast aspect of human life&comma; it has developed a myriad of specialties- each to study its own particular aspect&period;<br &sol;>For instance&comma; in criminal psychology a psychologist attempt to peek into a criminal’s mind&comma; whereas evaluating and studying an individual’s life-long psychological growth is kept under contemplation by a developmental psychologist&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Psychology&comma; a vast subject&comma; when classified into branches have many specialties&period; We shall discuss the most prominent and common branches of psychology&comma; which are&colon; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Clinical Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Clinical psychology in itself is a vast branch of psychology that covers most of the aspects of a human behavior and mind&period; Clinical psychology is a scientific study that aims at understanding&comma; preventing and alleviating psychologically-invoked imbalances or dysfunction and efforts to promote an individual’s well-being&period; Besides&comma; it also implies to work on personal development&period; Such a responsibility requires a psychologist’s concentration on intellectual&comma; emotional&comma; behavioral&comma; and social and other such aspects of human experience throughout his life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">However&comma; clinical psychologists are often also involved in research&comma; training&comma; forensic testimony&comma; and other areas&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 align&equals;"justify">Cognitive Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Cognitive psychology deals with cognitive or mental processes like memory&comma; learning&comma; language&comma; and other Developmental Psychologies internal processes&period; Hence&comma; this branch of psychology has its roots and impact on other disciplines like philosophy&comma; linguistics or even neuroscience&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">How people attain&comma; process and then store information occupies the central part of cognitive psychology&period; Practical applications for cognitive research may comprise improvising of memory&comma; enabling decisiveness or setting up educational programs to help boost learning capabilities&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Developmental Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Like mentioned earlier&comma; developmental psychology is meant to study human developmental&comma; from time of birth till they are young or adults&period; In simple words this branch of psychology includes just any psychological factors whole human life span&period; Developmental psychology includes psychological factors including motor skills&comma; problem solving&comma; moral understanding&comma; acquiring language&comma; emotions&comma; personality&comma; and self-concept and identity formation&comma; therefore is often referred to as human development&period;<br &sol;>Like Cognitive psychology&comma; Developmental psychology also overlaps with other branches of psychology&period;&lbrack;sky&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Occupational Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Occupational psychology&comma; a specialty which is recognized many other respectable names like industrial-organizational psychology&comma; I-O psychology&comma; work and organizational psychology and personnel psychology &period;occupational psychologists study the performance of people at work and develops an understanding of how organizations function and how people interact or socialize in the form of groups&period; The occupational psychologist ensures increased effectiveness&comma; efficiency&comma; and consummation at work&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Neuropsychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Neurology psychology&comma; is more of a structural and functional study of brain to get a closer and better picture of human behavior and cognitive processes in the brain&period; For this purpose&comma; a neuropsychological Evaluation plan is used by a neuropsychologist in order to determine the degree of a problem&comma; if any&comma; and to draw out a diagnosis&comma; after the brain has met an injury&period; After the diagnosis&comma; such patients are treated with a treatment to overcome those problems&period; In this case a neuropsychologist uses Individualized cognitive remediation protocol&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Evolutionary Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Human behavior is very vulnerable to external factors&comma; and is inevitably effected by psychological adjustments during the process of evolution&period; To keep a check and evaluate these psychological changes over time comes under the department of Evolutionary psychologists&comma; who believes that the human psychological traits we possess are adaptations for survival in the everyday environment&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Health Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Health psychology&comma; also called the behavioral medicine or medical psychology&comma; deals with behavior&comma; biology and social context influence&comma; health and illness&period; Health psychologists deals with a person with a certain illness keeping in mind the background he has come from&comma; his socioeconomic status or his behavior that might have triggered reasons for his illness&comma; unlike a doctor that only treats the illness through medications&comma;<br &sol;>The health psychologist works to improve the patients overall health by analyzing the illness in light of what we called biopsychosocial factors&period; In contrast to medical and biological aspects of a disease studied by a doctor&comma; a health psychologist refers to biological along with psychological and social aspects of a disease&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Social Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Social psychology uses scientific methods to study social influences on human behavior&period; A social psychologist observes a group behavior&comma; social perception&comma; non-verbal behavior&comma; conformity&comma; aggression&comma; prejudice&comma; and leadership&comma; also because social perception and social interaction are considered the keys to understand social behavior&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Forensic Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Forensic psychology involves criminal investigation and the law with respect to psychology&period; This kind of approach is found in civil courts and criminal justice systems&period; In this regard a criminal psychology must understand criminal law in jurisdictions where required so in order to be able to interact with judges&comma; lawyers and all the others involved in a legal system&period; In other words&comma; forensic psychology involves the tendency to participate in court events by giving services like psychological findings&comma; testifying and providing data to these legal professionals in a clear way&period; For this purpose&comma; a forensic psychologist must have a good understanding of his country’s rules and judicial system&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Sports Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Sport psychologist’s aims at providing motivation and promoting self-esteem and confidence in an individual so he can yield brilliant performances in different activities he might have taken part in&period; Hence&comma; sport psychology makes efforts to enhance our lives by boosting confidence and a sense of belief in us&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Abnormal Psychology<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">This branch of psychology&comma; as the meaning gets clear with the very name of it&comma; deals with abnormal behavior&period; Such a study is also known as psychopathology&period; Obsessive compulsive disorder&comma; dissociative behavior or antisocial behavior are a conjecture of what comes under the category of abnormal behavior&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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