Of the five Academic Areas, psychology is the most widely pursued. Contrary to popular beliefs, psychology is not just about helping the mentally challenged our disturbed. Though psychology is the study of the human mind and behavior, Medilexicon's medical dictionary, defines psychology as “the profession, scholarly discipline, and science concerned with the behavior of humans and animals, and related mental and physiologic processes." In other words, one must be prepared to work on the clinical, the academic and the scientific aspect of psychology in order to provide continuity care to the patients. In order to fully grasps its concept one must delve into its branches and sub-branches.
Three of the branches are Clinical Psychology, Developmental …show more content…
Although developmental psychology is used to for adults, however, it is mostly used with children as they are continuously growing. Developmental psychology focuses on the child’s motor skills, problem solving, and moral understanding to name a few (MNT).
When I think of Forensic psychology, the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation immediately comes to mind, and for good reasons. Forensic psychology does, in fact, involve criminal investigation. One must able to comprehend the justice system and perhaps even “think like a criminal” in order to testy in court.
Behavior analysis can easily be considered a sub-branch of psychology. In fact, psychology is defined as the study of human behavior; it is enough to stand-alone. Kendra Cherry, a psychology expert defines behavior analysis as “a science based upon the foundations and principles of behaviorism.” Like, Behavior analysis, psychotherapy and Cognitive theories too are considered sub-branches of psychology. Although with their intense description they should be among the crucial branches of psychology. However, they are merely used to analyze, assess and treat patients. We will first begin to explore psychotherapy. Cherry defines it as a “term is used to describe the process of treating psychological disorders and mental distress.” And Cognitive theories are ideas that look into the "inner" states including thought, incentive, attentiveness, problem solving and decision-making
Three of the branches are Clinical Psychology, Developmental …show more content…
Although developmental psychology is used to for adults, however, it is mostly used with children as they are continuously growing. Developmental psychology focuses on the child’s motor skills, problem solving, and moral understanding to name a few (MNT).
When I think of Forensic psychology, the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation immediately comes to mind, and for good reasons. Forensic psychology does, in fact, involve criminal investigation. One must able to comprehend the justice system and perhaps even “think like a criminal” in order to testy in court.
Behavior analysis can easily be considered a sub-branch of psychology. In fact, psychology is defined as the study of human behavior; it is enough to stand-alone. Kendra Cherry, a psychology expert defines behavior analysis as “a science based upon the foundations and principles of behaviorism.” Like, Behavior analysis, psychotherapy and Cognitive theories too are considered sub-branches of psychology. Although with their intense description they should be among the crucial branches of psychology. However, they are merely used to analyze, assess and treat patients. We will first begin to explore psychotherapy. Cherry defines it as a “term is used to describe the process of treating psychological disorders and mental distress.” And Cognitive theories are ideas that look into the "inner" states including thought, incentive, attentiveness, problem solving and decision-making