Psychology

Counseling Psychology is a specialty within professional psychology that maintains a focus on facilitating personal and interpersonal functioning across the life span. The specialty pays particular attention to emotional, social, vocational, educational, health-related, developmental and organizational concerns.
The requirements to become a licensed psychologist are:
Clear the 10+2 exam preferably with psychology as one of the subjects.
Complete a Bachelor (BA or BS) in Psychology degree (the curriculum of which focuses on personality development, psychotherapy, stress management and neuro-psychology).
Specialization at the postgraduate level, where one can get an MA or MSc in psychology, social work or counseling.
Further specialization at the doctoral level is available as well via PhD or M.Phil.

Hi Aafreen,
Career options after completing BAMS:
The areas which are available for a BAMS graduate to build a successful career can be broadly classified into the following five categories:
Clinical practice
Academic
Research
Management and administration
Drug manufacturing
Career options after completing BA in psychology:
Social psychology, Clinical psychology, Experimental psychology, Occupational psychology, Child psychology, Educational psychology, etc. They can work as Clinical Psychologists / Educational Psychologists / Industrial Psychologists / Counseling Psychologists / Research psychologists / Social Psychologists / Developmental psychologists. Some of the areas where a psychologist can work are Welfare Organizations, Prisons, Child/ Youth Guidance Centres, Research Establishments, Rehabilitation Centres, etc.

The requirements to become a licensed psychologist are:
Pass the 10+2 exam with any of the stream and minimum 50% marks to complete a Bachelor (BA or BS) in Psychology degree (the curriculum of which focuses on personality development, psychotherapy, stress management and neuro-psychology) specialization at the postgraduate level, where one can get an MA or M.Sc in either Psychology, Social Work, or Counseling.
Further, specialization at the doctoral level is available as well via Ph.D or M.Phil.
The postgraduate and doctoral programs focus their studies more on research, which is great for pursuing either a research or teaching job, whereas the graduate degrees (Bachelors) emphasize practice, such as counseling. In order to practice Counseling Psychology, you only need to have the BA/ BS in Psychology, or in a related field (like Education or Social Work). Graduate (Bachelors) degree programs are 3 years, Postgraduate (Masters) degree programs are 2 years, and Doctoral (MPhil or PhD) programs are 2 years long.