Gerald Peterson wrote: > Thanks for that info. We are having our annual grad school/career prep > seminar next week and this info may provide useful talking points. This > might lead some to consider psych grad programs, but I wonder how the market > looks for MA or Doctoral level psych folks? How is the academic market in > various areas? Interestingly, the article starts out with the misconception > of Psych as involving mental health, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, etc. Are > psych majors still laboring under this misconception at graduation? If > students still want to be little Dr. Phils, then they need some reality > checks about the field and the market. Social Work offers better hope for > them I think. Some of our students here have done quite well in pursuing > Neuropsych, Industrial, and even School Psych., but we have no real idea of > the larger picture. > > I am as big a supporter of psychological science as you are Gerald but, considering that, among the membership of the APA, the proportion of practitioners vastly outnumbers the proportion of scientists, and that the membership of APA vastly outnumbers the membership of APS, I doubt it is true that the market is better for psychological researchers than it is for psychological practitioners. Further, I doubt that anyone outside of psychology looking to hire a "researcher," broadly defined, is nearly as enamored of the methodological and statistical training that we give psychology students as psychologists themselves seem to be.
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