Psychologists study the behaviour and mental processes in humans. They provide services to clients who deal with mental health issues and life issues such as bereavement, relationship difficulties, domestic violence, and sexual abuse. They also provide counselling for mental health issues such as eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorders, and psychosis in order to help the clients rehabilitate and reach a healthy behaviour.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Planning and carrying out tests to measure mental, physical and other characteristics such as intelligence, abilities, aptitudes, potentialities, etc., interpreting and evaluating results, and providing advice;
(b) Analysing the effect of heredity, social, occupational and other factors on individual thought and behaviour;
(c) Conducting counselling or therapeutic interviews with individuals and groups, and providing follow-up services;
(d) Maintaining required contacts, such as those with family members, educational authorities or employers, and recommending possible solutions to, and treatment of, problems;
(e) Studying psychological factors in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illnesses and emotional or personality disorders, and conferring with related professionals;
(f) Preparing scholarly papers and reports;
(g) Formulating achievement, diagnostic and predictive tests for use by teachers in planning methods and content of instruction;
(h) Conducting surveys and research studies on job design, work groups, morale, motivation, supervision and management;
(e) Developing theories, models and methods to interpret and describe human behaviour.