What is Psychology?
View(s):Free information session for O/Level, A/Level students and parents Saturday 8th June 10 am – Cinnamon Grand Hotel A simple response to the above question might be, “just about anything that involves working with people”. Psychology offers excellent career opportunities in Clinical, Counseling, Corporate Management, Health, Family, Medicine, Social Work, Human Resources, Non Government Organizations (NGO), Organizational Development, Training, Marketing and many other areas. Today, Psychology graduates are among the most sought after by local and international companies. This article covers the increasingly attractive and lucrative psychology field highlighting value of proper higher education to reach these benefits.
Rewarding Careers in Psychology
The field of Psychology has become one of the most attractive and exciting career choices today. Unlike other traditional study areas such as Business, Medicine or IT Psychology opens a broad range of career options for students.
Clinical Psychologists – The area of psychology that involves evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of clients suffering from psychological disorders. Clinical psychology is the single largest employment area within psychology.
Industrial – Organizational Psychologists – I/O Psychologists focus on workplace behavior to increase worker productivity and employee satisfaction. Specialty areas include training, assessment, candidate evaluation etc.
Counseling Psychologists – Counselors help people with a wide variety of problems, including marriage, family, emotional, educational and substance abuse issues. Work settings include schools, universities, hospitals, mental health clinics, and private practice offices.
School Psychologists – Work in educational settings to help children deal with emotional, academic and social problems. Due to increased interest in the mental health of children School Psychology has become a fast growing area.
Forensic psychologists – They apply psychology to the fields of criminal investigation and law. Forensic psychology is an exciting career field rapidly becoming popular due to books, TV programs, and movies.
How to become a Psychologist?
A recognized Bachelors’ degree in Psychology followed by Medical Council Recognized post – graduate qualification is a must to become clinical psychologist. In the past, limited higher education opportunities in Psychology prevented Sri Lankan students from reaching the benefits of this growing industry. Today in an environment of many education options students and parents need to identify a proper university degree program that can realize their career aspirations. It’s important to note that a university degree qualification is an industry requirement. Short-term diploma / certificate programs (non-university qualifications) are not sufficient for this purpose.
Sri Lanka’s Most Recognize Psychology Degree Program
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T), USA is the only American state university to offer psychology degrees in Sri Lanka. Students can complete their entire BS (Bachelor of Science) or BA (Bachelor of Arts) degree in psychology at ANC Education – Sri Lanka’s leader in higher education. Students are awarded an Internal – American university degree by Missouri S&T, A top ranked university in USA. Parents can save more than 80% of the education cost compared to studying in USA to receive the same qualification. Missouri S&T program at ANC Education offers the same academic quality and exposure to students helping them to become tomorrow’s Psychologists.
Seats are limited – confirm your participation
ANC Education invites A/Level and O/Level students and their parents to attend this seminar to find out education and career options in Psychology and other related careers. Since seats are limited prior confirmation is essential. Please call Sashini on 0777 73 00 73 to make your reservation.
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