i want to be a psychologist what do i need to become one?

Question

I am 15 and in my last year at school and wish to know what A-levels etc. i need and courses i need to do to become either a criminal psychologist or a clinical psychologist thanks

Answer 1

Good A levels for progressing onto a psychology degree are of course psychology but also sociology, human biology and philosophy, if it is available. Some Uni's might also say that maths is useful to help with the statistics in a psych degree but you could probably manage fine without maths.



If you want to become a clinical psychologist you need a BA/BSc (honours) psychology degree that gives you Graduate Basis for Registration (GBR) with the British Psychological Society (BPS). You then need a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (DClinPsyc). The DClinPsyc is very competitive to get into so you need to get a good classification for your honours degree and have some clinical experience (e.g. as an Assistant Psychologist) before you will even be considered for the course.



To become a forensic psychologist again you need a BA/BSc (honours) psychology degree with GBR. Next you need an MSc in Forensic Psychology. To become chartered you then need to work for 2 years under the supervision of a chartered forensic psychologist. Like clinical psychology the forensic psychology course can be competitive to get into so you'll need a good degree classification followed by experience working with offenders.



Only about 15% of psychology graduates actually go onto to become professional psychologists because it is so competitive to get into postgraduate courses. However, if you do well in your studies and build up your work experience you'll stand a much better chance of getting onto postgrad courses.



Good luck if you do go for it!

Answer 2

Well at 15 you can't really become a psychologist or take any courses in high school that will help you, until you reach college. When you do you would select the major of psychology and then take the course the school requires so that you can graduate with a bachelors of arts. Afterwards you would need to go to graduate school and pursue a masters in psychology degree. That would probably take you 2-3 years depending on if you go full -time or part-time. The minimum requirement for most entry level psychologist positions is to have a masters. Now if you want to have better job opportunities and make more money you would need a PH.D in Psychology. Good luck

Answer 3

firstly ask a career advisor if you have one if your school, cz they can give you all the info that u need,

im really intersted in psychology too, and to do psychology in university, which is what i was going to do, but now im doing a pyschology and criminology combined course,

but anyway, u need psychology at A level, and after looking at unis last year, i found out most uni's liked people to have science subjects like maths, biology, instead of subjects like geography. so biology, maths, and psych are useful. i did maths to AS level, and then psychology, biology and art at A level, and i got offered places at really good uni. maybe sociology may help as well.

to become a clinical psychologist, u need a Bsc Psych degree rather than a BA Psych degree, although the majority of uni's do the BSc rather than the BA. basically if u do a BA, u have to do an extra yr, if u want to become a clinical pyschologist.

for a criminal pyschologist, it may be useful to do either a combined criminology and pysch course, like im doing, or do a pysch degree, and then do more yrs at uni, doing a criminology degree as well. i have to admit, not a lot of uni's do the combined course tho - ones like sheffield hallam, coventry, huddersfield, but depending where u wana go etc - so look on uni websites, but u have another couple of yrs before uni yet. talk to teachers in sch - they can give u help on stuff like this!

Answer 4

I would advise English, Maths and Psychology as 'A' levels. You would then need to take a Psychology degree.

Answer 5

i imagine that in case you may construct a sturdy starting off position so that you'll't be pulled again into your melancholy than definite. psychological well being complications, and relations complications which contain abuse, and mistreatment can do profound issues to someone. even as tearing you down for a lengthy time period, eventually you'll come out as a much better man or woman. Envision this: imagine seeing a affected man or woman with an same existence memories as you, same complications you had, and wager what? he's clinically depressed. you comprehend precisely what he went by. His soreness and your soreness are tremendously a lot same. How a lot extra inspired at a human aspect, no longer a earnings aspect will you be to assist him? you'd have the capacity to connect to this affected man or woman and a lot of your different sufferers in a way that no different Psychologist who got here out of a warmth and fuzzy situation a lot less adolescents will. lets grant you with yet another affected man or woman, a rundown teen, tries not uncomplicated in in instructions. clinically determined with ADHD as a label because he couldn't tutor himself. advised he develop into ineffective because he might want to understand what develop into being suggested to him. He thinks he sucks, no woman might want to ever want him, he might want to in no way provoke his father, or do some thing acceptable. He develop into depressed and residing existence in a comatose autopilot, keeping off socializing basically to get by each day. (Me at 15) Sounds tremendously depressing to me. 20 money says you would possibly want to narrate Props for pulling out of that. melancholy sucks, been there. i imagine you get what I propose. And as a level of reference, I stated a psychiatrist who's dad dealt with him like sh!t a twin of mine did to me, and it created a situation with male authority figures later in his existence. He completely on the area of me and incredibly helped me. Plus he develop into way cool. Peter M: Your a douchebag. Brent: you would possibly want to apply some suggestion on transforming into extra mentally sturdy because then you somewhat'd comprehend medical melancholy isn't psychological weak point.

Answer 6

Psychology obviously

erm socialogy would be quite a good one, it's basically saying like, what influences people to be the way they are, like peer pressure etc

Biology, you need to know how the brain and body work