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West Virginia Psychology Schools – WV
By an allied health world contributing writer
Published: February 19th, 2010
Through psychology schools in West Virginia you can earn a master’s degree. Many continue to pursue their doctorates, which gives them even greater insight into the workings of the human mind.
Your high school career should emphasize math and science and your grades and SAT/ACT test scores should be solid enough to get you into a good undergraduate program.
While this program need not be in psychology per se, if you have decided that psychology is the field for you, you need to continue to take classes in the social and behavioral sciences and math. You also need to understand human culture, so linguistics, music and the humanities should help balance out your course load. Continue to earn good grades, get to know your professors (so they can write you recommendations) and take the GREs so you can apply to a good graduate school.
This is the time when you want to be majoring in psychology, possibly with a slant towards a particular field (industrial, school, clinical, child, etc.).
Should you continue onward to enroll in one of the psychology schools in West Virginia, you can either earn a doctorate in psychology or a doctorate in philosophy.
Note that once you have received your doctorate, your peers in psychiatry are able to prescribe drugs while you cannot. However, most of your graduate education will have focused on human behavior and thinking, whereas psychiatrists must also learn about the lymphatic system, diseases of the lungs and how to splint a broken leg.
Through campus based and online programs, aspiring Psychologists in Charleston, Huntington, Parkersburg and Wheeling, West Virginia may be able to prepare themselves for the possibility of employment in some of the largest hospitals and healthcare facilities in the state including the Charleston Area Medical Center General Hospital, Wheeling Hospital, Saint Mary's Medical Center and Ruby Memorial Hospital.