Psychology

College Majors
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<p>Is there a difference between clincal, health and mental psychology? because I want to do something with psychology, but nothing that involves prescribing medications. Also, what's a good minor with these different types of psychology ? Please help! </p>

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<p>Someone with experience in the field could correct me, but I think you need to be a psychiatrist (MD, go to med school) to be able to prescribe medications.</p>

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<p>yes you have to be an MD to prescribe. For practicing psychology (or psychiatry) you need a graduate degree. For undergraduate work, you don’t specialize at all. But you can learn more about what you might do if you go on to grad work. If you just stuck to the BA, then you can work in any area that doesn’t require specialized skills. Many people work in various business positions. A good minor in my opinion, would be statistics. It may be helpful for grad school work and also for if you go into business. Another minor to consider would be biology or neurology if they have it, if you are going to go into healthcare fields. Overall, a minor is not that important except that it gains you skills, you can decide about it later.</p>

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<p>Getting a master’s and licensure gives you the greatest opportunities. Licensure takes time and dedication. </p>

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<p>Prescribing medications requires medical licensure. So, this would be done by psychiatrists, not psychologists. For several years, however, psychologists in many states have advocated for prescription privileges for psychologists. Currently, in three states, psychologists with appropriate training can obtain prescription privileges. <a href=“Prescriptive authority for psychologists movement - Wikipedia”>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescriptive_authority_for_psychologists_movement&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Clinical psychologists conduct assessment and treatment of mental and behavior disorders. Health psychology is a subspecialty focused on the psychological factors in medical disorders.</p>

<p>A wide range of fields might provide appropriate minors for undergraduate psychology majors who aspire to graduate training in clinical and health psychology, depending on one’s particular interests in the field.For clinical psychology, these might include neuroscience, sociology, criminology, anthropology, women’s studies, religion, statistics, speech pathology, gerontology, etc. In addition to these fields, for health psychology, these could include fields such as public health or human biology.</p>