Can you tell me about school psychology vs. social psychology?

They are pretty different fields of psychology. In terms of theory, school psychology is aptly named since it deals with the psychological issues students face in school from kindergarten all the way up to university situations.

Social psychology is very different and more broad because it focuses on all the psychological dynamics of social interactions between people and groups of people. The basic foundation of social psychological theory is p*e=b or person times environment = behavior.

In terms of employment, the best financial decision would probably be school psychology since you will likely get paid more as a practicing psychologist at a grade/high school or university. You can also work as a school psychologist at a HS with only a masters degree. School psychologists are practicing therapists so you need to get certification. This sometimes makes admission to school psychology programs more difficult.

Social psychology is almost entirely a completely academic field. There aren't too many social psychologists working in the private sector but there are some in corporations/advertising firms, etc. Get a Ph.D. in social psychology and you will almost certainly be teaching at a college and doing research. Many school psychologists also teach in colleges.

If you are majoring in psychology at your school (or even if your not) look up the psych professors on your school website and it will likely tell which each professor is. Email them and ask them to give you a brief run through of what distinguishes the different disciplines. Also, if you are interested in a better financial situation, I/O (Industrial/Organizational) psychologists get paid very well to evaluate work place efficiency. And you really only need a master's degree to be making about 55,000+ right out of graduate school.

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A social worker would not require the abilities of a psychologist. the social worker enables human beings handle day after day issues of their existence. Eg a thank you to get social protection, the place to acquire emergency housing, a thank you to help disabled human beings acquire artwork, how women human beings in disaster can acquire help.etc etc. A psychologist works with human beings on a guy or woman or group foundation to verify their issues and rationalise them so that they could function in society. Psychologists additionally artwork interior the sphere of profiling interior of companies like CIA and FBI .a specialist filer works with the tips offered to construct a psychological profile of a criminal with the intention to est abolish the main in all probability perpertrator of a criminal offense or series of crimes.

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