Branches of Psychology

According to the British Psychological Society, the term psychology is the scientific study of people, the mind, and behavior. It is both a thriving academic discipline and a vital professional practice. The word “ psychology” was derieved from the greek word “Psyche” which means breath, spirit, and soul, and the Greek word “ logia” which means the study of something. Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Foresic Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology, Health Psychology, and Neuropsychology are branches within the study of psychology that expalin and describe it structure and function. Clinical Psychology, is the one of the well know branches of psychology that scientificly study and application of pschology. In its area, it focuses and also seek to understand, prevent, and alleviate psychologically caused distress or dysfunction and promotes adaption, adjustments and personal development. Within this branch, psychologist assesss and treat persons who are suffering with metal illness, psychriatric problems abnormal behavior. In other words this branch deals with the behavioral patterns in perons.
Developmental Psychology is the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that a person experience over the course of his or her life span-which is reffered to as human development. In its early stages of development it used to focus on infants and young children, but also includes teenagers and adults today and is now considered to be the whole human life span. In Development Psychology, the study of persons life, including motor skills, problem sloving, moral understanding, acuring language personaility and identity formation is studied. Developmental psychology overlaps with several other branches of psychology, as well as other disciplines, such as lingustics.
Foresic Psychology is another branch of psychology which bascially involves applying psychology of criminal investigation. It deals with the understanding criminal law in the