
Applied psychology is the application of psychological principles and methods to resolve problems of human experience which may be related to human experience, health, family, workplace, etc. It is that field of psychology which validates psychological theories and focuses on putting practical research into action to achieve the desired result.
VARIOUS FIELDS OF PSYCHOLOGY:
- Educational psychology:
- Helps in developing strategies for better teaching approaches.
- Improves learning environment and gives advice on curriculum formation
- Occupational psychology:
- Helps in increasing the employee productivity, job satisfaction at work and overall effectiveness of an organization.
- Ids in organizational functions such as staff recruitment training, employee relations, performance appraisal, motivation, counselling and maintaining work environment.
- Health psychology:
- Helps diseases individuals to cope with illness, develop positive attitude, recover from illness and lead quality life.
- Educates and motivates people to make better health choices, contribute to improving the healthcare system and aid the government in designing healthcare policy.
- Cognitive psychology:
- Aids in treating learning disorders, structure. The educational curriculum to augment learning and improve desicion making ability.
- Provides help to cope with increased stress levels, memory disorders brain injury and additional difficulties.
- Clinical psychology:
- Helps in diagnosis,rention and treatment of emotional disturbances and behavioral problems.
- Helps the individual to promote well being and personal development.
- Sports psychology:
- Helps athletes and sports person to cope with the intense pressure generated out of competition.
- Enhances the performance of an athlete, motivates him and hastensthe recovery from injuries too.
- Teaches the common man to enjoy sport and promote well being by sticking to an exercise regimen.
- Developmental psychology:
- Aims to resolve individual’s issues mostly related to society, school, career, family and health.
- Criminal psychology:
- Assissts law enforcement agencies in apprehend in the criminals.
- Provides an understanding of will, intention, thoughts, feelings and reactions of criminals with the main goal of reducing crimes.
- Social psychology:
- Talks about social perceptions and interactions that are key to understanding social behavior.
- Looks at a wide range of other topics such as aggression, prejudice and non verbal behavior.




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