HI,
I am an aspiring undergraduate psychology student. I am aware that if I want to have a career in counselling or as a professional psychologist, I need to have a graduate degree in the field. I am just wondering if it is possible to specialise in two areas of psychology when in graduate school (child/developmental + industrial and organisational psychology or clinical and child psychology, etc.) so I can plan my undergraduate courses :).
Thank you!
It is possible to specialize in two areas, but you have to go to a program that has a combined specialization/subfield program. Child clinical is pretty easy - clinical is an actual subfield and child is really just an area of research or a concentration, so there are many programs that have that. There are also many applications of child psychology within clinical psychology - doing research on mental health in children, providing services to them, etc. - so it makes sense. Many programs would have this even if it’s not explicitly called “clinical/child”.
Developmental + industrial/organizational is harder to do, and quite frankly less understandable. Children don’t work, so why would you want to combine child psychology with I/O?