The Varied Workplaces of Psychologists Clinical and counseling psychologists work in a wide variety of venues. Prison psychologist Tamara Russell, pictured here, oversees a staff of clinicians at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla, Washington. She received an award from the American Psychological Association for her innovative and effective work. The creative programming she introduced includes “Kittens in the Klink,” a way for inmates to learn altruism by being paired with motherless kittens that they feed and socialize until the kittens are old enough to be adopted. As Russell explains, “A lot of guys never realized they could do something for others” (Hagar, 2013).
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