Both could diagnose a mental illness but, Neuropsychologist can go into detail, they give you the origin, severity, development of the disorder and customize recommendations to create a treatment plan specifically for them (neurodevolp.com). This is important if your child has an illness that can be cured if they find where it came from, a Neuropsychologist will be needed to give you the origin and if you need surgery for the treatment. Clinical Psychologist test cognitive, emotional, behavioral, and execute functioning (neurodevolp.com). Knowing what a clinical psychologist test could let you know if you needed simple testing or more complex testing. A more complex test would be a Clinical Neuropsychologist because they do neuropsychological evaluations like, attention, concentration, memory, auditory and visual processing, gross and fine development as well as many other things (careeronestop.org). Clinical neuropsychologist are important because if someone in a family had late development they could try to find why and where it’s coming from using their tests. Clinical Neuropsychologist, and Clinical Psychologist are similar but Neuropsychologists go way more into depth which is something people should …show more content…
Personal skills Clinical Neuropsychologist needed are active listening, reading comprehension, active listening, and writing (bls.gov). These are skills you need to make sure you have to make sure the career you are pursing has a better chance to fit your personality. Other skills you need to have are problem-solving, speaking, science, critical thinking, and social perceptiveness skills (job-descriptions.careerplan.com). These skills are needed for the job therefore, it’s not smart to enter into a career if you cannot acquire the skills needed. The Bureau of Labor Statics based off information gather says there’s an 11% growth rate through 2022 (careers.inpsychology.org). Clinical Neuropsychology is growing at an average rate, which is important because if the career isn’t thriving you could not make a lot of money. Clinical Neuropsychology requires a lot of personal skills that are needed or else you will not be a good fit for the