Rehabilitation or Mental Health Counselors
Duties and Responsibilities:
Rehabilitation
or mental health counselors work with the mentally, emotionally, and physically
disabled. It is their job to help patients develop more faith in themselves.
They work with patients to help them because self-sufficient and productive.
Counselors often work closely with their patients’ doctors and family. Counselors may work in private practice,
for schools, industry, or in hospital or residential health care settings.
Counselors often:
·
Work
with patients who abuse alcohol or addicted to drug.
·
Interview
and observe patients to determine problem areas.
·
Conduct
personality, aptitude, achievement, and psychologist tests.
·
Help
patients find and keep jobs.
Average Salary: $25,000-$45,000
Educational Requirements:
Students interested in becoming counselors should take a challenging high
school curriculum.
A bachelor’s degree in education, psychology, or sociology is the minimum
requirements for level counseling jobs, but a master’s degree is required for
most. To become licensed by a state, counselors must pass written and oral examinations
and work for about two years in a supervised clinical setting.
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