FIGURE 1.1Fields of PsychologyThe pie charts on the right show the primary place of work for full-time doctorate-level psychologists working in 2009 and their areas of specialty. As you can see, psychologists work in diverse contexts and specialize in many subfields. The young clinical psychologist pictured above is counseling one of the survivors of China’s Great Sichuan earthquake, a 7.9 trembler that killed 70,000 people in 2008 (The New York Times, 2009, May 6).

Adapted from: Michalski et al. (2011); Photo: AP Photo/Greg Baker