Health Care Review

A review of different health care occupations.

Mental Health Professionals

Professionals involved with psychology, substance abuse counseling, and behavioral disorder counseling who work to prevent, diagnose, and treat mental disorders.

Psychology

The scientific approach to gathering, quantifying, analyzing, and interpreting data on why people act as they do, providing insight into varied forms of human behavior.

Psychology as a Health Career

An allied health profession devoted to mental health, contributing to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental illness.

Clinical Psychologists

Specializes in the assessment and treatment of persons with mental, behavioral, and emotional problems and illnesses.

Counseling Psychologists

Helps normal or moderately maladjusted persons to gain self-understanding, recognize problems, and develop methods of coping with their difficulties.

Developmental Psychologists

Investigates the development of individuals from prenatal origins through old age.

Educational Psychologists

Designs, develops, and evaluates materials and procedures to resolve problems in educational and training programs.

Engineering Psychologists

Deals with the design and use of the systems and environments in which people live and work.

Personnel Psychologists

Applies professional knowledge and skills to the hiring, assignment, and promotion of employees to increase productivity and job satisfaction.

Experimental Psychologists

Designs, conducts, and analyzes experiments to develop knowledge regarding human and animal behavior.

Industrial Psychologists

Uses scientific techniques to deal with problems of motivation and morale in the work setting.

Psychometric Psychologists

Directly measures human behavior, primarily through the use of tests.

Rehabilitation Psychologists

Works with disabled persons to assess the degree of disability and develop ways to correct or compensate for these impairments.

School Psychologists

Concerned with developing effective programs for improving the intellectual, social, and emotional development of children in an educational system or school.

Social Psychologists

Studies the effects of groups and individuals on the thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behavior of the individual.

Research Psychologists

Works in university and private research centers, studying the behavior of both human beings and animals.

Forensic Psychologists

Works in the criminal justice and legal fields, assisting legal specialists to understand the psychological aspects of a case.

Health Psychologists

Promotes good health through health maintenance counseling programs.

Neuropsychologists

Studies the relationship between the brain and behavior.

Geropsychologists

Deals with the special problems faced by the elderly.

Substance abuse counselors

Advise individuals dealing with alcoholism, illegal drug addiction, and other addictions by providing treatment and support

Behavioral disorder counselors

Advise individuals how to modify their behavior to deal with specific aspects of their life, often those associated with eating.

Mental health counselors

Advise individuals, families, couples, and groups how to handle a variety of conditions like anxiety, depression, grief, low self-esteem, stress, and suicidal impulses.

Social workers

Assists people by helping them cope with and solve issues in their everyday lives, such as family and personal problems and dealing with relationships.

Child and family social workers

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families.

Healthcare social workers

Provide psychosocial support to individuals, families, or vulnerable populations so they can cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses.

Clinical social workers

Diagnose and treat mental, behavioral, and emotional disorders, including anxiety and depression

Mental health and substance abuse social workers

Help clients with mental illnesses or addictions

Social and human service assistants

Help people get through difficult times or get additional support and help clients to identify and obtain benefits and services such as food stamps and Medicaid

EMT-PARAMEDICS

Emergency medical technicians and paramedics that have a career that is often very dramatic, calling for immediate, calm application of the EMT's skills amid sometimes dangerous conditions.

Radiologic Technologists and Technicians

Produce X-ray images (radiographs) of parts of the human body for use in diagnosing medical problems, like broken bones.

RADIATION THERAPISTS

Use machines called linear accelerators to administer radiation treatment to patients, projecting high-energy X-rays at targeted cancer cells.