As a junior halfway done with this year, I’ve began to wonder what I should major in. In a sense, i would like a career when I help others. Fascinated with psychology and development as well as working with a non profit or doing something around social services. Basically if volunteer work with children was a job, that’d be me.
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Then major in Clinical Child Psychology!
Are you interested in elementary education?
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Child clinical psychology is not an undergraduate major. You’d have to major in psychology. (Some schools may have an undergraduate major in clinical psychology, but the vast majority do not.)
Heh, it is! There are a lot of people providing social services and other development-type work that some people do as a hobby or volunteer project. Your major will really depend on what you want to DO with children.
If you are interested in teaching, then you’d want to major in elementary education, as mentioned above. If you want to do counseling work, an undergrad major in psychology is probably the best choice - followed by either a master’s degree (in mental health counseling or social work) or a PhD (in clinical, counseling, or school psychology).
But if you are more broadly interested in social services, good majors are psychology or sociology. Some schools have social work majors, which is a good choice too. Other schools have majors in human development and family studies, family and consumer sciences, or in child development more specifically. Those can be good choices too!
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