ssejamafone said:
oh ok. Thanks for the replies
And, what if i want to become a research psychologist as opposed to clinical? Because, i guess that i've always been interested in the research side of psychology and studying human behaviour (or whatever exactly they do).
Okay, copied straight off the notes we got given yesterday in our pre-professional psych lecture yesterday. Academic psych's work for universities and conduct research, so I'm pretty sure that's what you mean.
What are the main roles of academic psychologists?
* Research and research supervision 40%
* Teaching 40%
* Administration, governance, professional 20%
What do you need to become an academic (research) psychologist?
*
4 year undergraduate degree (preferably with honors)
* Professional postgraduate degree
* Research postgraduate degree
* Post-doctoral position (rare in Australia, many go overseas to get it)
* Research profile
* Teaching profile
Empolyment opportunities: many overseas opportunities; local opportunities fair
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What do you need to become a registered psychologist?
* 4 years undergraduate degree (with or without honors)
* 2 years postgraduate degree (ie masters - entry requirements 4yrs undergrad; professional doctorate - entry requirements Honors degree 2:1 or better; Research doctorate - entry requirements 1st class honors or equivalent)
* OR 2 years of supervised clinical experience (they told us that it can be really hard to get especially locally, and costs a hell of a lot per hour)
So basically at the end for your 4 year undergrad degree you can't yet be a psychologist, you need to do postgrad or find yourself somewhere to do supervised experience. You do not NEED to do honors to become registered. Its funny because a lot of people in my course didnt know that and thought they just had to do the 4 years and then they'd be done, so when we had the lecture the other week they were all freaking out hahahaha
