Applied psychology

The basic premise of applied psychology is the use ofwestern part of the country is more progressive than
psychological principles and theories to overcomethe east and offers more programs. Since many of
practical problems in other fields, such as businessthe programs in another type of counseling only offer
management, product design, ergonomics, nutrition, lawone class in career counseling or development, the
and clinical medicine. Applied psychology includes theCareer Development Facilitator training is available for
areas of industrial/organizational psychology, humanprofessionals. It’s generally a
factors, forensic psychology, engineering psychology,100-120 hour class that can be taught the majority
as well as many other areas.through e-learning or the traditional classroom setting.
The legend and founder of applied psychology wasThe great benefit of the CDF training is that you then
Hugo Munsterberg. The German man came tohold the credential, which may help you stand out as a
America originally studying philosophy similar to mostprofessional against your peers who do not hold the
aspiring psychologists during the latecredential.
1800’s. Munsterberg hadSince jobs are such defining experiences for people,
many interests in the field of psychology such as,having the ability to gain helpful insight, tips, and
purposive psychology, social psychology and forensicencouragement from career counselors is a definite
psychology. In 1907 he wrote several magazine articlesbenefit. The career counseling field can only increase in
concerning legal aspects of testimony, confessionspopularity as people on average change jobs every
and courtroom procedures, which eventuallyten years, instead of 30 years ago where many
developed into his book, On the Witness Stand. Thepeople stayed with the same company the majority of
following year the Division of Applied Psychology wastheir working career.
adjoined to the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.Forensic psychology and legal psychology
Within 9 years he had contributed eight books inForensic psychology and legal psychology are the
English, applying psychology to education, industrialarea concerned with the application of psychological
efficiency, business and teaching. Eventually Hugomethods and principles to legal questions and issues.
Munsterberg and his contributions would define him asMost typically, forensic psychology this involves a
the creator of Applied Psychologyclinical analysis of a particular individual and an
Industrial and organizationalassessment of some specific psycho-legal question.
Industrial and organizational psychology focuses toLegal psychology refers to any application of
varying degrees on the psychology of the workforce,psychological principles, methods or understanding to
customer, and consumer, including issues such as thelegal questions or issues. In addition to the applied
psychology of recruitment, selecting employees frompractices, legal psychology also includes academic or
an applicant pool which overall includes training,empirical research on topics involving the relationship of
performance appraisal, job satisfaction, work behavior,law to human mental processes and behavior.
stress at work and management.The use of forensic psychology dates back to the late
Career counseling is another aspect of counseling1800’s when two physicians
closely related to Industrial/Organizational Psychology.were investigating the crime scene of Jack the Ripper.
Counselors in this field assist clients in a variety ofThese doctors were concerned with his personality
settings ranging from schools to vocational tocharacteristics and used clues to get into the mind of
organization sites to name a few. One of the mainthe murderer. A decade later a system known as
goals of the profession is to help clients realize theirprofiling became the known name for this type of
talents and dreams in response to a career and helpinvestigation. The “Son of
them create successful job skills to then apply to theirSamâ€￾ was researched by
career search. Many times career counselors act asan agent who used other
consultants to companies, other times they work as akiller’s profiles to determine
team in academic and career counseling capacities,where these acts were coming from. Questions
and other times they work for a social service agencyconcerning family, education, background and behavior
specifically working with people who need assistancewere derived from the forensic profiling. This is another
in the job search process.form of psychology and a way for FBI agents to
Generally a master’s degreeprevent murders or find criminals. With this
is needed to get into the field. As there are not manypsychological research we are able to divide murders
career counseling master’sinto two forms; disorganized, meaning the offender
programs, many enter the field with a degree in mentaldoes not plan or premeditated, where the offender
health counseling or community counseling. If you aredoes plan. Personality plays a big role in figuring out the
looking for a degree directly in career counseling, theminds of mass murderers.