List of psychology disciplines

List of Psychology Disciplines is a comprehensive overview of the various fields and specializations within the broad discipline of psychology. Psychology, as a discipline, is incredibly diverse, encompassing many different areas of study and practice. Each of these disciplines has its own unique focus, methodologies, and areas of interest.

Clinical Psychology

Clinical psychology is a branch of psychology that focuses on diagnosing and treating mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders. Some of the more common disorders that might be treated include learning disabilities, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders.

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive psychology is the study of mental processes such as "attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking." Cognitive psychologists use in-depth research methods to understand how people perceive, think, and remember.

Developmental Psychology

Developmental psychology is the scientific study of how and why human beings change over the course of their life. This field examines change across a broad range of topics including motor skills and other psycho-physiological processes; cognitive development involving areas such as problem solving, moral understanding, and conceptual understanding; language acquisition; social, personality, and emotional development; and self-concept and identity formation.

Social Psychology

Social psychology is the study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. This field examines a wide range of social phenomena including social perception, group behavior, leadership, nonverbal behavior, conformity, aggression, and prejudice.

Industrial-Organizational Psychology

Industrial-organizational psychology is the science of human behavior relating to work and applies psychological theories and principles to organizations. This field addresses issues of recruitment, selection and placement, training and development, performance measurement, workplace motivation and reward systems, quality of work life, and organizational development and change.

Forensic Psychology

Forensic psychology involves the application of psychology to questions and issues relating to law and the legal system. This field involves understanding criminal law in the relevant jurisdictions in order to be able to interact appropriately with judges, attorneys and other legal professionals.

Health Psychology

Health psychology is the study of psychological and behavioral processes in health, illness, and healthcare. It is concerned with understanding how psychological, behavioral, and cultural factors contribute to physical health and illness.

Neuropsychology

Neuropsychology is a branch of psychology that is concerned with how a person's cognition and behavior are related to the brain and the rest of the nervous system. Professionals in this branch of psychology often focus on how injuries or illnesses of the brain affect cognitive functions and behaviors.

Educational Psychology

Educational psychology involves the study of how people learn in educational settings, the effectiveness of educational interventions, the psychology of teaching, and the social psychology of schools as organizations.

Sport Psychology

Sport psychology is an interdisciplinary science that draws on knowledge from many related fields including biomechanics, physiology, kinesiology and psychology. It involves the study of how psychological factors affect performance and how participation in sport and exercise affect psychological and physical factors.

Military Psychology

Military psychology is the research, design, and application of psychological theories and empirical data towards understanding, predicting, and countering behaviours in friendly and enemy forces, or in civilian populations.

Environmental Psychology

Environmental psychology is an interdisciplinary field focused on the interplay between individuals and their surroundings. It examines the way in which the natural environment and our built environments shape us as individuals.

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes, including both their variability and invariance, under diverse cultural conditions.

Comparative Psychology

Comparative psychology is the branch of psychology concerned with the study of animal behavior.

Evolutionary Psychology

Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection.

Positive Psychology

Positive psychology is the scientific study of what makes life most worth living, focusing on both individual and societal well-being.

Transpersonal Psychology

Transpersonal psychology is a sub-field or "school" of psychology that integrates the spiritual and transcendent aspects of the human experience with the framework of modern psychology.

Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychology

Psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychology represent therapeutic techniques and theories, respectively, that have been influential in shaping the broader landscape of psychology.

Humanistic Psychology

Humanistic psychology is a psychological perspective that emphasizes the study of the whole person. Humanistic psychologists look at human behavior not only through the eyes of the observer, but through the eyes of the person doing the behaving.

Existential Psychology

Existential psychology is a branch of psychology that studies how people exist in their environment and how they react to it.

Feminist Psychology

Feminist psychology is a form of psychology centered on social structures and gender. Feminist psychology critiques historical psychological research as done from a male perspective with the view that males are the norm.

Psychology of Religion

Psychology of religion consists of the application of psychological methods and interpretive frameworks to the diverse contents of religious traditions as well as to both religious and irreligious individuals.

Traffic Psychology

Traffic psychology is a discipline of psychology that studies the relationship between psychological processes and the behavior of road users.

Community Psychology

Community psychology studies the individuals' contexts within communities and the wider society, and the relationships of the individual to communities and society.

Media Psychology

Media psychology uses psychological theory to understand how media and its components affect human behavior.

Political Psychology

Political psychology is an interdisciplinary academic field dedicated to understanding politics, politicians and political behavior from a psychological perspective.

Legal Psychology

Legal psychology involves empirical, psychological research of the law, legal institutions, and people who come into contact with the law.

Psychometrics

Psychometrics is the field of study concerned with the theory and technique of psychological measurement.

Parapsychology

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, as in telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, a.k.a. telekinesis, and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc.

History of Psychology

History of psychology traces the study of the mind from Ancient Greece to the modern day.

See Also

• Psychology
• Branches of psychology
• History of psychology
• Psychological schools
• Psychological theories
• Psychological research