Can someone give me a brief description of these majors

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<p>their differences?..</p>

<p>General Psychology (is it studying every little things?..what kind of jobs is out there?)</p>

<p>Clinical Psychology and Child Psychology…I don’t seem to find a lot of schools that focus on Child Psychology as a major. Does it fall in the category with clinical psychology…or social psychology?</p>

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<p>Clinical psychologist: An individual who has earned a doctorate in psychology and whose training is in the assessment and treatment of psychological problems.</p>

<p>The San Jose State University website states:</p>

<p>Psychology Program
The clinical psychology program is designed to provide the student with both theoretical and practical training in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide variety of individual (adult and children), couples, and family mental health problems, and to prepare the student to work in private or public service agencies, independent practice, community mental health centers, or hospitals. The required academic coursework and supervised fieldwork of 48 semester units, and meets most of the coursework requirements for the California State Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) license. An additional 2500-2700 hours of acceptable supervised experience is required for admission to the state MFT licensing examination.
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<p>The SUNY Stony Brook website states:</p>

<p>The Clinical Psychology Graduate Training Program
The Clinical Program trains students to expand the scientific understanding of behavior problems and psychopathology and to apply this knowledge as skilled clinicians. The faculty are nationally recognized for their contributions to research and training in cognitive and behavioral approaches to clinical problems and remain committed to developing, evaluating, and implementing empirically-based assessment and treatment of adults, children, couples, and families. Research interests of core faculty include depression and dysthymia, spouse abuse and marital discord, psychotherapy process and integration, substance abuse, pain perception, social problem solving, developmental disabilities, parenting, language disorders, literacy enhancement, child abuse, and close relationships. Student placement is outstanding. </p>

<p>As of 2001-2002, 43 Ph.D. students were enrolled in the Clinical Graduate Training Program (72% female, 12% Black or Hispanic). For the class entering in Fall 2002, there were 220 applications; 14 were accepted, yielding an entering class of 7. The program seeks bright, socially skilled students with strong research backgrounds and interests compatible with those of core clinical faculty.
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