Question | Answer |
Focuses on diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health problems. | clinical psychologist |
Helps rehabilitate people with problems arising from brain damage or irregularities in brain function. | clinical neuropsychologist |
Works with individuals, community groups and organisations to help improve health and welfare of people in the community. | community psychologist |
Helps people deal with all kinds of personal and relationship problems. | counselling psychologist |
Helps people with issues that affect learning or with life changes. | educational and developmental psychologist |
Works with people in legal and correctional service settings. | forensic psychologist |
Promotes and maintains health-related behaviour, works on improving the healthcare system. | health psychologist |
Helps people in workplaces. | organisational psychologist |
Helps athletes to develop mental skills to achieve peak performance. | sport psychologist |
Focuses on bodily structures, systems and activities associated with behaviour and mental processes. | biological psychologist |
Focuses on how people process, remember and use information. Studies how we think, perceive and learn | cognitive psychologist |
Focuses on people's characteristic and enduring ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. | personality psychologist |
Focuses on how behaviour can change in different social situations. | social psychologist |