Psychology

The APA offers information about subfields in Psychology and other details about using a psychology degree.

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics measures labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity in the U.S. economy to support public and private decision making."

From The Professional Counselor's Desk Reference
Counseling involves a professional relationship that empowers diverse individuals, families, and groups to accomplish mental health, wellness, education, and career goals

From Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology
Developmental counseling is a collaborative and catalytic relationship formed between a professional counselor, who is trained in both counseling and human development, and a client, who is currently experiencing or is expected to experience problems that impede progress toward mastering personally and/or culturally valued functions.

From Encyclopedia of Special Education: A Reference for the Education of the Handicapped and Other Exceptional Children and Adults
The past two decades have been a period of significant professional growth for pediatric psychology. In general, the number of psychologists in medical settings has increased rapidly and the scope of their activities has widened enormously.

From The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
A person trained in medicine who specializes in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.

From The Penguin Dictionary of Psychology
Determining to just whom this term applies is no simple matter. The difficulties stem from the fact that some who claim it do so because they practise psychology, others because they apply it, others because they teach it and still others because they research it.

From Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Psychology
A person who professes to carry out psychological treatments according to a particular theoretical model (as in psychodynamic psychotherapist, behavioural psychotherapist, etc.).

Organized effort to help individuals and families to adjust themselves to the community, as well as to adapt the community to the needs of such persons and families.