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I think I want to get a masters in Child Psychology, but while I want to help people I want to make a decent living. What is the average salary for a Child Psychologist, I can only find the median wage of regular psychologists with a BA.
What are your opinions, should I pursue this path?
Also: colleges that offers child psychology and business minors?
Have known child psychologists, and they complain that they end up doing a lot of custody evals, which are very contentious and require court testimony in many cases. Plus, parents can be threatening
Otherwise, it's mostly Medicaid work, with poor kids who have 'parent issues' and the psychologist ends up dealing with crazy, flaky or addicted adults. The compensation rates are low.
Our PhD child psychologists make good money, probably ~90-100K+. But that kind of work is stressful, because of the info I've already posted regarding ADHD, but also school evals requiring the consultation of numerous people and review of copious records, custody battles, but also troubled parents [mentally ill, personality disordered, drug dependent] who are contributing if not the cause of why their kid is being seen in the first place, but the parents frequently will take no responsibility, are defensive and won't consider change in their own behavior, they frequently get angry, threaten law suits, want medication to be the answer, and then there are the battles with schools who don't want to, or don't have the money for individual educational plans for struggling kids, that also see medication as the answer. They want well behaved, non-disruptive, non-challenging kids, otherwise off they go to the psychologist. I can tell you that our PhD fellow graduates have numerous job offers with good salaries, usually in the private sector. Medicaid patients are managed at the county level and not very well because there is such a lack of professionals that want to work in those agencies usually due to low salaries, substandard facilities, and lack of resources, but it can be rewarding work if you're not worried about the money.
You can only call yourself a "psychologist" if you are PhD level (some say only if you're licensed as well). Masters level can be psychology assistants (or specific types of things like therapists, counselors, school psychologists, counseling psychologists), so try searching those terms to see what jobs come up and salary ranges.
You can only call yourself a "psychologist" if you are PhD level (some say only if you're licensed as well). Masters level can be psychology assistants (or specific types of things like therapists, counselors, school psychologists, counseling psychologists), so try searching those terms to see what jobs come up and salary ranges.
"Unlike clinical psychology and counseling psychology, which often are doctoral-only fields, school psychology includes individuals with Master's (M.A., M.S., M.Ed.), Specialist (Ed.S. or SSP), Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (CAGS), and doctoral (Ph.D., Psy.D. or Ed.D.) degrees."
I think I want to get a masters in Child Psychology, but while I want to help people I want to make a decent living. What is the average salary for a Child Psychologist, I can only find the median wage of regular psychologists with a BA.
What are your opinions, should I pursue this path?
Also: colleges that offers child psychology and business minors?
Can't you google all of this?
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