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42PX Clinical Psychologist

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Overview

A Clinical Psychologist assesses and treats the psychological health of Airmen and their families. This officer provides evaluations, therapy, and consultation services in Air Force medical treatment facilities.

Core Skills

  • Neuropsychological disorder evaluation and treatment
  • Psychological methods for improving organizational performance
  • Clinical psychology program supervision

Civilian Career Paths

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Clinical and Counseling Psychologists

Military experience evaluating, diagnosing, and treating psychological disorders directly supports civilian clinical assessment and treatment.

How to prepare: Prepare a de-identified case summary demonstrating how assessment findings informed your diagnosis and treatment decisions.

What the civilian work involves
  • Identify psychological, emotional, or behavioral issues and diagnose disorders, using information obtained from interviews, tests, records, or reference materials.
  • Counsel individuals, groups, or families to help them understand problems, deal with crisis situations, define goals, and develop realistic action plans.
  • Document patient information including session notes, progress notes, recommendations, and treatment plans.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software
  • Zoom

Clinical Neuropsychologists

The specialty's explicit responsibility for evaluating, diagnosing, and treating neuropsychological disorders provides a foundation for focused neuropsychological practice.

How to prepare: Have a clinical neuropsychologist review your training and supervised neuropsychological experience to identify specialty-training gaps. General psychologist licensure alone is not sufficient preparation for independent neuropsychological practice; substantial additional specialized training and supervised experience, commonly including postdoctoral training, may be needed.

What the civilian work involves
  • Conduct neuropsychological evaluations such as assessments of intelligence, academic ability, attention, concentration, sensorimotor function, language, learning, and memory.
  • Write or prepare detailed clinical neuropsychological reports, using data from psychological or neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct observations, or interviews.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Automated Neuropsychological Metric Assessments Battery
  • Microsoft Word

Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

Applying psychological principles to human and organizational effectiveness transfers to evaluating workplace programs and performance.

How to prepare: Complete a workplace program-evaluation project using statistical analysis to demonstrate how you would measure organizational effectiveness.

What the civilian work involves
  • Analyze data, using statistical methods and applications, to evaluate the outcomes and effectiveness of workplace programs.
  • Observe and interview workers to obtain information about the physical, mental, and educational requirements of jobs, as well as information about aspects such as job satisfaction.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
  • Microsoft Excel

Notes & Sources

  • For clinical psychology and neuropsychology roles, verify state licensing requirements for your intended scope of practice.
Evidence for this guidance (4 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST (42PX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST"; normalized cached text lines 6345-6366; family-level section (42P4, 42P3, 42P1)

    Supports: Neuropsychological disorder evaluation and treatment, Psychological methods for improving organizational performance, Clinical psychology program supervision, Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (O*NET 19-3033.00), Clinical Neuropsychologists (O*NET 19-3039.03), Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (O*NET 19-3032.00)

  2. O*NET: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Clinical and Counseling Psychologists (O*NET 19-3033.00)

  3. O*NET: Clinical Neuropsychologists

    [3] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Clinical Neuropsychologists (O*NET 19-3039.03)

  4. O*NET: Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

    [4] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (O*NET 19-3032.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 42PX

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