Career Paths in Psychology: Where Your Degree Can Take You written by Robert J. Sternberg is the model guide for anybody considering a booming career in psychology. It’s for career-changers, students, newly graduates, or psychologists searching fresh career challenges. Psychology professionals who have accomplished enormous victory in a multiplicity of fields talk about their work in this book. They discuss what got them to enter the career, what the usual work week is for a psychologist, and what they enjoy and don't enjoy about it.

These specialists give much needed details, information, recommendation, and encouragement of their chosen career journeys. With no holds barred, they converse freely about payments and career breaks and discusses also what is required to successfully make it in the field of psychology. Today more than ever, the job opportunities for psychologists are more diverse and stirring. Career Paths in Psychology proves that the scope of job accessible to promising psychologists is far beyond the customary functions of doing individual therapy sessions or laboratory researching. Among the valuable careers tackled in the book are the Industrial/organizational psychology, Consulting psychology, School psychology, Counseling psychology and Military psychology. It likewise touched matters pertaining to psychology in academic careers, Clinical psychology in hospitals, Health psychology, Public service, and Psychology in managed care.

The very first edition of Career Paths in Psychology, launched in 1997, has been a very helpful reference for both instructors and students. This recent, second edition is revised to mirror modifications since that year and to emphasize modern trends in psychology. This book features five added chapters on careers in the government, medical schools, neuropsychology, child psychology, and administration.