Or the psychological is professionals of the psychology, disciplines complex which gathers many theoretical currents and practices: clinic psychology, cognitive, behavioral, développementale, social, animal, differential, experimental etc… These various fields of application gather around this scientific study of the psychic facts which is psychology (generic term). The psychologist, who is specialized in a specific scientific current can thus be a professional of psychic operation and psychopathologies, human Comportement, Personnalité and or even of the interpersonal Relation S.

The psychologists intervene in all the fields of the company (education, Santé, Social, work, Sport, etc) to preserve, maintain or improve the wellbeing or the Quality of life of the individual and his psychic health, to develop its Capacité S or to support its social Intégration. Consequently, according to their specialization (practical clinical, vocational guidance, school Psychology, Occupational psychology, etc), they use specific methods of intervention based on varied theoretical approaches.

Activities

Therapy

• in institutional or private medium, to deal with people presenting of the difficulties of a Psychic nature (turbid of the Behavior, disorder of the Personality);

• to take part in the Prevention and the Tracking of the possible delays of mental turbid development or ;

The Council and animation

• to guide the Adolescent S and the Adult S in the choice of a Profession, a Formation or a Reintegration (vocational guidance);

• in large Undertaken S, administrations, to take part in the Recruitment, the Formation, with the organization of work, the human Stock management and the adaptation to the change (Occupational psychology);
• to set up support measures at the time of school difficulties or integration (school Psychology);
• to advise the parents, the teachers, the social services, etc, sometimes to reorientate them towards another professional of the intervention (Psychotherapist, Doctor, Psychiatrist); a psychologist advises, intervenes on behaviors…

Psychological evaluation

• to evaluate the operation of the person and to pose a Diagnosis by means of Maintenance S, of tests, etc;

• to propose and/or ensure a catch of load according to a specific theoretical approach (variable according to the psychologists): systemic orientation , behavioral, centered on the person, etc;

Seek

• to complete work in all the fields of psychology (acquisition of the language, social Psychology, animal Psychology, Psychology of the sport, etc) to the University or in services of Applied research;

• to work out Assumption S, to work out an investigation or a Experimentation, to strip the data and to make the summary of the results.

Specialization

According to their place of activities, the psychologists can specialize in one or the other of these sectors, to touch a particular public (young people, adults, Entreprise S, Chômeur S, etc), to work in individual Entretien S or small Groupe S. They can exert either in an independent way, in their clean Cabinet, or within institutions, companies, administrations, etc and often collaborate with other professionals of the social action (social social workers, educational, Logopédiste S, Psychomotricien S, Psychiatre S, etc. ).

See too

• psychological careers adviser

• Educational psychologist
• Psychiatrist
• Psychology
• French Regulation related to psychology