If you plan to be an applied psychologist, would you like to:

Work for a business or other organization (as an employee or a consultant), dealing with personnel selection and evaluation, employee morale, and productivity?

Apply psychology to the design of equipment, such as automobiles, control panels, aircraft cockpits, electronic devices, or tools?

Do psychological evaluations, psychotherapy, or counseling?

Specialize in evaluating and treating learning and behavior problems of school-age children?

Apply psychology to problems in the field of exercise, wellness, and sports?

Specialize in diagnosing and treating people who have relatively severe emotional and behavioral problems?

Work with people who are disabled or who have medical disorders? 

Work with the elderly?

Work in a correctional setting with delinquent or criminal populations?

Focus on assessing and treating basically normal persons who are experiencing relatively brief developmental problems or problems with their jobs, marriages, or other life situations.

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