Students can expand their career options in some of psychology’s rapidly emerging and fastest-growing fields through three new specializations available from Walden University’s M.S. in Psychology program beginning in September and December.
Crisis Management and Response
This specialization—one of the first fully online psychology degrees—is designed to help students explore psychological theories and learn conflict management and negotiation skills as they prepare to work with trauma and disaster victims.
According to a March 2008 Eduventures* report, there are a high number of job openings in crisis management and emergency planning in this relatively new discipline. The American Psychological Association’s (APA) Web site lists more than 100 available internship opportunities for individuals trained in the treatment of “behavioral emergencies.”
Leadership Development and Coaching
The job outlook is also strong in leadership and executive coaching. By 2016, employment in the field of industrial-organizational psychology is predicted to increase by 21 percent, employment for human resource managers is expected to grow by 11 percent, and management analyst positions are expected to increase by 22 percent, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook, (viewed online at www.bls.gov/oco).
Walden’s specialization is designed to help students understand and apply the principles and theories of leadership development, develop their own models of leadership coaching, and discover their own capacity for leadership.
Media Psychology
Like Crisis Management and Response, this specialization is one of the nation’s first and only Master degree programs of its kind, and it is generating a lot of interest. The APA’s Monitor on Psychology’s Ethics Rounds section† reports a veritable explosion in interest in media psychology among its members over the past two decades and predicts it will become a major influence in psychology in the future.
In Walden’s Media Psychology specialization, students will have the opportunity to discover the impact of media and technology on human behavior as they prepare for careers in the media, advertising and research.
Other Popular Specializations
Walden continues to offer the popular General Program specialization for the M.S. in Psychology, which prepares students to apply psychological principles and theories, conduct research and manage data in a variety of settings, and the Organizational Psychology and Development specialization, which focuses on enhancing individual and organizational effectiveness.
Advancing to a Ph.D. in Psychology
Students who successfully complete any of the M.S. in Psychology specializations may then be eligible to continue into Walden’s Ph.D. in Psychology program, with benefits outlined in Walden’s “Lifelong Learning Options for Psychology and Human Services Alumni.”
More Information
Visit: www.WaldenU.edu/c/Schools/Schools_4214.htm
Call: An enrollment advisor at 1-866-492-5336 (International Inquiries)
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†Kim I. Mills, “Psychology Xposed: Mainstream media look to APA to explain the news of the day.” Monitor on Psychology, Volume 39, No. 5 May 2008 (View online).
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