This essential career guide equips new professionals and doctoral students with a robust
foundation for a long and satisfying career in psychology and other behavioral health
professions. Taking a proactive intervention prevention approach to career planning and
building contributors offer accessible guidelines and advice in core areas such as
specialization and niche specialties the market for services cultural competence ethically
and legally sound practice and personal competencies including self-care the degree-to-career
transition and financial planning. The editors also break down the mental health field into
discrete disciplines each with its own trajectory for its future relevance and sustainability.
By bringing this wide range of career information together this book helps to set much-needed
standards for professional development in a demanding diversifying and evolving field.
Featured in the coverage: · The personal development foundation.· Professional relationships
and the art of networking.· The clinical credentialing process.· Clinical educational and
administrative supervision.· The curriculum vitae and professional marketing.· The early career
professional advantage.The Psychologist's Guide to Professional Development serves as an
invaluable text for professional development courses in the fields of psychology counseling
social work marriage and family therapy as well as a trusted mentor-between-covers for the
long term.
