This question has multiple answers. One of the best is found at the beginning of the third article of the code of ethics of psychologists Italian :
"The psychologist considers it her duty to increase knowledge about human behavior and use it to promote psychological well-being of the individual, group and community.
In any professional work to improve people's ability to understand themselves and others and to behave in a conscious, coherent and effective. "
Its scope of choice is therefore that of the pathology of the disorder, but that of the normal processes. A psychologist may be interested, for example, how they develop language, or reading skills or memory, and then later to study specific techniques that help us in carrying out these tasks. He deals first, then the understanding of the processes from time to time under study, and subsequently of their improvement. E 'to him that it is the choice of its specific object of study and techniques used to study, as well as the responsibility of the reliability of its work and its results.
What then are the sports psychologists, work, developmental, or whatever, this is why it is always more than fair to ask them "yes, yes, a psychologist, but what do you do? "
"The psychologist considers it her duty to increase knowledge about human behavior and use it to promote psychological well-being of the individual, group and community.
In any professional work to improve people's ability to understand themselves and others and to behave in a conscious, coherent and effective. "
Its scope of choice is therefore that of the pathology of the disorder, but that of the normal processes. A psychologist may be interested, for example, how they develop language, or reading skills or memory, and then later to study specific techniques that help us in carrying out these tasks. He deals first, then the understanding of the processes from time to time under study, and subsequently of their improvement. E 'to him that it is the choice of its specific object of study and techniques used to study, as well as the responsibility of the reliability of its work and its results.
What then are the sports psychologists, work, developmental, or whatever, this is why it is always more than fair to ask them "yes, yes, a psychologist, but what do you do? "