PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL SERVICES

COORDINATOR:

DR. ÖZGÜR ALTINDAĞ   (DİCLE UNIVERSITY)

Psychology – science of behavior and mental processes

• Applied psychology – use of psychological principles and theories to overcome problems in other areas, such as mental health, business management, education, health, product design, ergonomics, and law.
• Psychological testing – field characterized by the use of samples of behavior in order to assess psychological construct(s), such as cognitive and emotional functioning, about a given individual.
• Clinical psychology – integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
• Community psychology – Sense of community Social capital
• Consumer behaviour – study of when, why, how, and where people do or do not buy a product.
• Counseling psychology – psychological specialty that encompasses research and applied work in several broad domains: counseling process and outcome; supervision and training; career development and counseling; and prevention and health.
• Educational psychology – study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.
• Forensic psychology – intersection between psychology and the courtroom—criminal, civil, family and Federal.
• Health psychology – concerned with understanding how biological, psychological, environmental, and cultural factors are involved in physical health and illness.
• Industrial and organizational psychology – scientific study of employees, workplaces, and organizations.
• Legal psychology – involves empirical, psychological research of the law, legal institutions, and people who come into contact with the law.
• Media psychology – seeks an understanding of how people perceive, interpret, use, and respond to a media-rich world.
• Military psychology – research, design and application of psychological theories and experimentation data towards understanding, predicting and countering behaviours either in friendly or enemy forces or civilian population that may be undesirable, threatening or potentially dangerous to the conduct of military operations.
• Occupational health psychology – concerned with the psychosocial characteristics of workplaces that contribute to the development of health-related problems in people who work.
• Pastoral psychology – application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to religious traditions, as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals.
• Political psychology – interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding political science, politicians and political behavior through the use of psychological theories.
• Psychometrics – field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and educational measurement.
• School psychology – field that applies principles of clinical psychology and educational psychology to the diagnosis and treatment of children's and adolescents' behavioral and learning problems.
• Sport psychology – interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from the fields of Kinesiology and Psychology.
• Systems psychology – branch of applied psychology that studies human behaviour and experience in complex systems.
• Traffic psychology – study of the behavior of road users and the psychological processes underlying that behavior (Rothengatter, 1997, 223) as well as to the relationship between behavior and accidents
• Behavior analysis – philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do can and should be regarded as behaviors, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns or modifying the environment.
• Biopsychology – application of the principles of biology (in particular neurobiology), to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in human and non-human animals.
• Cognitive psychology – subdiscipline of psychology exploring internal mental processes.
• Clinical psychology – integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development.
• Cultural psychology – field of psychology which assumes the idea that culture and mind are inseparable, and that psychological theories grounded in one culture are likely to be limited in applicability when applied to a different culture.
• Developmental psychology – scientific study of systematic psychological changes, emotional changes, and perception changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span.
• Educational psychology – study of how humans learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.
• Evolutionary psychology – approach in the social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as memory, perception, and language from a modern evolutionary perspective.
• Experimental psychology – application of experimental methods to the study of behavior and the processes that underlie it.
• Forensic psychology – intersection between psychology and the courtroom—criminal, civil, family and Federal.
• Health psychology – concerned with understanding how biological, psychological, environmental, and cultural factors are involved in physical health and illness.
• Humanistic psychology – psychological perspective which rose to prominence in the mid-20th century in the context of the tertiary sector beginning to produce in the most developed countries in the world more than the secondary sector was producing, for the first time in human history demanding creativity and new understanding of human capital.
• Industrial and organizational psychology – scientific study of employees, workplaces, and organizations.
• Music therapy – allied health profession and one of the expressive therapies, consisting of an interpersonal process in which a trained music therapist uses music to help clients to improve or maintain their health.
• Neuropsychology – studies the structure and function of the brain as they relate to specific psychological processes and behaviors.
• Personality psychology – branch of psychology that studies personality and individual differences.
• Psychometrics – field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement, which includes the measurement of knowledge, abilities, attitudes, personality traits, and educational measurement.
• Psychology of religion – application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to religious traditions, as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals.
• Psychophysics – quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they affect.
• Sensation and perception psychology –