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Originally posted by vandy_violet
I By the way, something repeatedly drilled into any psych major's mind is that psychology is a science. A lot of people seem to think it's just random theorizing like Freud, which I think has really contributed to the negative bias against it. Practically every psych prof I've had has spent the first week of class at least reviewing the scientific methods for psych and why psychology is a science. A good psychology department should, like a natural science one, teach you research skills and a scientific method. You learn to analyze research and apply it. Psychologists often work in hospitals with other health professionals like doctors, or in private practice with a medicine-prescribing psychiatrist while they control much of the counseling portion. They learn quite a bit more about talk therapies, and conducting and applying research as opposed to an emphasis on drug therapy like psychiatrists.
Consider the fact also that many high-earning jobs also have higher attrition rates. If all else fails, you can joke with them like I do with my dad about how you can always write a few books like Dr. Phil and make tons of royalties.
Here's a page to look at: http://www.princetonreview.com/cte/p...p?CareerID=130
Also, I'm assuming that the earnings average they provide includes other people with different psychology degrees, like school psychologists and marriage and family therapists, who tend to make less than a clinician.
Edited: Here are earnings stats straight from the APA itself.
http://research.apa.org/reports.html
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Very nice synopsis of the field.
Psychology as a science is drilled into my head!!
I thank God that I took Experimental Psychology (Research Methods in other schools). I've learned soo much in that one class, i.e. how to conduct research, how to write a good paper, etc.