Generally, the Psychologist specialty is fairly evenly split between males and females with 41% of providers reporting their gender as male and 58% reporting as female. People living in California, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Florida enjoy living in one of the 5 most popular states/territories where Psychologist providers practice. In all, there are 50,287 registered Psychologist providers in the United States with over 5,553 of those located in California alone while around 4,328 chose to practice in New York.
Psychologist providers have been assigned the 103T00000X taxonomy code in the NPI registry, which is a Level II Classification. Click here for more information about medical specialty types.
Overall, Psychologist specialists practice in 55 different states/territories and can be categorized into 17 different Psychologist sub-specialties: Addiction (Substance Use Disorder), Adult Development & Aging, Clinical, Clinical Child & Adolescent, Cognitive & Behavioral, Counseling, Exercise & Sports, Family, Forensic, Group Psychotherapy, and Health, among others.
A psychologist is an individual who is licensed to practice psychology which is defined as the observation, description, evaluation, interpretation, and modification of human behavior by the application of psychological principles, methods, and procedures, for the purpose of preventing or eliminating symptomatic, maladaptive, or undesired behavior and of enhancing interpersonal relationships, work and life adjustment, personal effectiveness, behavioral health, and mental health. The practice of psychology includes, but is not limited to, psychological testing and the evaluation or assessment of personal characteristics, such as intelligence, personality, abilities, interests, aptitudes, and neuropsychological functioning; counseling, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, hypnosis, biofeedback, and behavior analysis and therapy; diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorder or disability, alcoholism and substance abuse, disorders of habit or conduct, as well as of the psychological