Psychologists are typically employed by educational or medical institutions, government agencies, private industry, and business. They can be self-employed in the areas of clinical and counseling psychology. Professional Training .
Some students go straight into a doctoral program from college.
Acceptance into a psychology graduate program is competitive and maintaining a solid undergraduate G.P.A. is important. However, the Behavioral Science Department at Pacific Union College has a very good record of getting its students into graduate programs in psychology. Areas of graduate school specialization include but are not limited to clinical, child, consumer, counseling, experimental, forensic, health, industrial, personality, physiological, school, social and sports psychology. Denominational Opportunities . Currently Adventist colleges, hospitals, churches, and elementary schools are hiring psychologists.