BPP-1_UNIT 1_Week 2

Major Fields in Psychology

➔ Clinical Psychology ➔ Criminal/Forensic Psychology
➔ Counselling Psychology ➔ Sports Psychology
➔ Social Psychology ➔ Health Psychology
➔ Educational Psychology ➔ Psycho-oncology
➔ Neuropsychology ➔ School Psychology
➔ Organizational/Industrial Psychology ➔ Developmental Psychology
➔ Human resource Management ➔ Training and Development

➔ Test Construction and Psychological Assessment

Clinical Psychology

➔ Evaluation, Diagnosis & Treatment

➔ Psychological disorder and less severe
behavioural and emotional problems
➔ Psychological Testing
➔ Providing individual and group therapy
Areas of Interest
❖ Psychopathology
❖ Therapeutic Interventions
❖ Cognitive Processes
Which schools of thought can be applied in this field? ❖ Neurobiology
❖ Social Psychology
Developmental Psychology
❖ Assessments and Research
Counselling Psychology

➔ Interviewing , Testing & Providing Therapy

➔ Assistance to people struggling with everyday
problems of moderate severity
➔ Individual therapy, Group therapy , Family and
Marital therapy, Career counselling
Areas of Interest
❖ Therapeutic Interventions
❖ Counselling Skills
❖ Social Psychology
Which schools of thought can be applied in this field? ❖ Developmental Psychology
❖ Assessments and Research
❖ School Counselling
Social Psychology
➔ How people’s thoughts, Feelings and
Actions are affected by other
➔ Explore complex networks of social
interrelationships
Areas of Interest
❖ Human Aggression
❖ Liking and Loving
❖ Persuasion
❖ Conformity
❖ Group behaviour
❖ Social Experiments
❖ Research
Which schools of thought can be applied in this field?
Educational Psychology

➔ Explore teaching and learning processes

➔ Social, Emotional and Cognitive processes involved in
learning
➔ Interventions to improve learning process
Areas of Interest
Role of Motivation in
Education
Cognitive processes
Promote educational
growth
Human Development
Which schools of thought can be applied in this field?
Special Education
Case Study

Mr. Kumar has been fired from his job after showing some
maladaptive behaviours (eg. taking frequent holidays from
work, not being on time, in-competent in learning new tasks,
making multiple errors at work or following deadlines).
Think of questions each of the 4 fields might be interested
in while trying to assist Mr. Kumar.
Neuropsychology
➔ Assessment and Treatment of people who suffer from central nervous
system dysfunctions.
➔ Head trauma, dementia, stroke, seizure disorders
➔ Role medications to treat disorders
Areas of Interest
❖ Structure and
Chemistry of the
Brain
❖ Neurological
function
❖ Effects of Damaged
Which schools of thought can be applied in this field? brain areas
❖ Psycho-
pharmacology
❖ Research
Organizational/Industrial Psychology

➔ Exploring psychological processes in the workforce

➔ Exploring ways to improve staff morale and attitudes, increase job
satisfaction and procedures.

Areas of Interest
Behaviours at workplace
Interpersonal professional
relationships
Mental health at work
Which schools of thought can be applied in this field? place
Work ethics and practices
Human resources
management
Case Study

Mr. Kumar has been fired from his job after showing some maladaptive
behaviours (eg. taking frequent holidays from work, not being on time, in-
competent in learning new tasks, making multiple errors at work or following
deadlines).
Think of questions each of the 2 fields might be interested in while trying to assist
Mr. Kumar.
 Criminal/Forensic Psychology
● The application of clinical specialties to the legal arena (APA)
● The application of clinical specialties to legal institutions and people who come into contact with
the law” (Cronin, 2006. p. 5)
● Forensic psychology focuses on legal issues, such as determining the accuracy of witness
memories (Feldman, 2010 )
● Help in the investigation
● Authenticity of testimony

Area of Interest
Analysing personality,
Crime Profiling
Sports Psychology
● Study how psychological factors influence performance
in sports, physical activity and exercise.

● Sport psychology applies psychology to athletic activity

and exercise.

Sport psychology is a proficiency that uses psychological knowledge and skills to address optimal
performance and well-being of athletes, developmental and social aspects of sports participation,
and systemic issues associated with sports settings and organizations. (APA)
 Health Psychology,
○ Focus on ways to improve health by altering behaviour.

○ Focuses on how psychological factors relate to the promotion and maintenance of physical health
and the causation, prevention, and treatment of illness.

○ Health psychology explores the relationship between psychological factors and physical ailments or
disease.

What are the factors that causes illness (pear deck

activity)
Health Psychology,
 Psycho-oncology
Psycho-Oncology is concerned with the psychological, social, behavioral, and ethical aspects of
cancer.
Two major psychological dimensions of cancer:
● The psychological responses of patients to cancer at all stages of the disease, and that of their
families and caretakers
● The psychological, behavioral and social factors that may influence the disease process

Multi-disciplinary Interest 
clinical disciplines (surgery, medicine, pediatrics, radiotherapy), epidemiology, immunology,
endocrinology, biology, pathology, bioethics, palliative care, rehabilitation medicine, clinical trials research
and decision making, as well as psychiatry and psychology.
Case
● Mr. Ben is a national level hockey player, recently he was selected as the team captain. His
girlfriend died recently, the investigation team interrogated him on this case, since there a
complaint that she was murdered. After the interrogation Ben’s performance in the recent few
matches was very poor. The head coach asked to receive professional help. Meanwhile
investigation team found that her neighbour murdered her accidently while stealing money from
her home and tried to plot against Mr. ben.

● Identify the different branches of psychology discussed in the case

School Psychology
● School psychology is devoted to counseling children in elementary and secondary schools who
have academic or emotional problems.
● test and evaluate students, analyze learning problems, and counsel teachers and parents.

● Dealing with problem children

● Therapies and intervention
Developmental Psychology
● Looks at human development across the lifespan. Developmental psychology once
focused primarily on child development, but today devotes a great deal of research to
adolescence, adulthood, and old age.

● Study how individuals grow and change throughout their lives.

Training and Development
● Means to educational activities within a company created to enhance the
knowledge and skills of employees while providing information and
instruction on how to better perform specific tasks.
 Psychometrics (Test Construction and
Psychological Assessment)
● Is concerned with the measurement of behavior and capacities, usually through the
development of psychological tests. Psychometrics is involved with the design of tests to assess
personality, intelligence, and a wide range of abilities. It is also concerned with the development
of new techniques for statistical analysis.

● Proficiency in statistics
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