As a psychologist you deal with human behaviour and development in many fields, including psychological treatment, education, work place, sports, environment, traffic, health, media, and more. In clinical professions, for example, you are concerned with the treatment of people with emotional or behavioural disorders or supporting patients with neurological deficits. Developmental issues are central to clinical work as well, since origins of maladaptive behaviour often lie in early childhood.?The Psychology programme is delivered by University of Groningen.
In our bachelor programme:
- you learn about theories of the biological, cognitive, social and environmental factors influencing behaviour;
- you obtain basic communicational and diagnostic skills necessary for work in practice;
- you are trained to get an in-depth focus on the methodological and statistical knowledge and skills essential for scientific research;
- you learn to reflect on scientific theory in psychology;
- you learn to reflect on your own development as psychologist;
- you have the possibility to focus on a domain of your own interest and that fits best with the track in your future Master programme.
Job prospects
Psychologists get into jobs where thorough knowledge of human possibilities and constraints is important. For instance a job in mental health care. You should think of assistance or therapy. Psychologists can also work in business or in organizations. For example, they are used to recruit new staff, in coaching or training. Finally, it is possible to find yourself in research institutes or universities.
Job examples
- Vocational and organizational expert
- Sport psychologist
- Prevention officer
- Market researcher
- Career and organizational consultant
- Neuro psychologist in hospital/health care organization
- Gerontologist
- Health care psychologist (GZ-psychologist)
- Communicatieadviseur
- Traffic psychologist
- Psychotherapist
- Marketing consultant
- Cognitive ergonomist
- Policy researcher
- Information officer
- Crisis manager
- Forensic psychologist
