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 to help them become
self-sufficient and productive. Counselors often work closely with their
patient’s 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 drugs.
- · Interview and observe patients to determine problem areas.
- · Conduct personality, aptitude, achievement and psychological 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, sociology is the minimum requirement for low level counseling jobs,
but a master degree is required for the most. To become licensed by state,
counselors must pass written and oral examinations and work for about two years
in a supervised clinical setting.
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