Rajeshwari Dutta, academic content writer in psychology at Edumarz.
Psychologists apply the art of psychology rather in simple words the utilization of psychological principles, theories, ideas, tests to people for solving their problems in life and changing their lifestyle. The ability of psychologists for rendering services in human areas or solving real life problems is not an easy task, as it requires practices and experiences to apply these psychological techniques.
For knowing the work of psychologists we should take into account the subfields of psychology , as psychology consists of varied areas of behavioral interests.
In clinical psychology, the psychiatrists and psychologists both play their role collaboratively , psychiatrists mainly prescribe the medicines for the patients and diagnose the symptoms. The psychologists or the counselor provides services at their private chambers, hospitals, for counselling their patients who lack motivation and suffer from emotional problems.
In organizations or industries , the need of organizational psychologists is very much to observe or study worker morale and relation between employer and employee the organizational psychologists may recommend for changing the office environment in each company he serves.
For the purpose of school counselling , the school counselor deals with the school children and even the adolescents who are facing difficulty in studies. Works individually with every child and even parents and teachers of school to come across their problems in academics . Many schools hire school counselors for vocational and career counselling to the school children.
A pediatric psychologist or the child psychologist, observes the developmental sequence of an individual , but developmental changes not only occur in the early year of life but in adolescence, adulthood and old age and to deal with the lifespan of a human being it falls under the developmental psychology. For instance the work of a child psychologist in a hospital is to help the child and their family members to cope with the distress caused by some illness and helping them to understand their treatment.
The work of community psychologists is to apply the principles and techniques to help in solving social problems and to help individuals to adjust with their living groups. To solve hostility among the members in a community, to meet their needs the community psychologists emphasize on changing community organizations and to provide people with psychological information to participate in removing the source of community problems by themselves .
The above discussed are the various works of psychologists corresponding to their choice of fields. There are many other works also for the emerging sub branches of psychology for the betterment of human life and correspondingly to society also.