What are the employment directions of the Master of Applied Psychology?

(1) Psychology of education and development: Development and educational psychology are generally divided into two directions: developmental psychology and educational psychology. The former includes cognitive and thinking development, brain function and cognitive development, personality and social development, and psychological counseling for children and adolescents, while the latter includes learning and educational psychology, psychological counseling and counseling, information technology and teaching psychology, and school psychology. Education is the cause of the country, and the strong support of the government can ensure the development and educational psychology to be evergreen all the year round. ?

(2) Applied psychology: mainly psychological counseling and treatment, clinical psychology, human resource management and psychological evaluation. Teachers or students engaged in applied psychology research will basically seek development around professional positions such as human resources, psychological counselors and school mental health centers.

(3) Basic Psychology: The study of basic psychology may be different from the psychology in general impression. Basic psychology mainly discusses the development and history of psychology, the relationship between psychology and philosophy, and the formation and causes of people's basic psychological phenomena.

First, colleges and universities, which is the main destination of psychology graduate students after graduation. In recent years, colleges and universities have paid more and more attention to students' mental health, and have set up public courses in psychology, with master of psychology as the teacher of public courses in psychology. This undoubtedly expanded the employment of psychology graduate students. One of the best employment directions for Master of Psychology is to enter the Department of Psychology and the Department of Education and become a psychology teacher. ?

Second, civil servants. Generally, the public security system and education administrative departments recruit psychology graduate students as civil servants: public security bureau, reeducation-through-labor center, prison, border inspection station, etc. Are all possible places. ?

Third, enterprises. The enterprises that psychology graduate students go to are mainly headhunting (talent agency) talent evaluation institutions, enterprise consulting and human resource management, and planning and design companies. Postgraduates in psychology are different from students majoring in human resource management. Students majoring in psychology advocate humanized management, which is complementary to students majoring in human resource management. ?

Fourth, primary and secondary schools. Originally, undergraduate students were generally recruited, and psychological counselors in colleges and universities were saturated. Some graduate students began to consider entering primary and secondary schools to engage in psychological education. ?

Fifth, psychological counseling workers. Judging from the current situation in China, the domestic industry is not a very profitable profession. If you want to get the salary of foreign counterparts, you need to make further efforts to open up the market and improve your consulting level. But looking ahead, it's still good. ?

Sixth, hospitals and clinics. Students who study clinical psychology and medical psychology can go to hospitals or psychological clinics to engage in psychological counseling and treatment. However, in view of the current demand for psychologists in China and the need for a medical license to go to a hospital, it is more difficult.