Rehabilitation or mental health counselors

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Duties and responsibilities:

Rehabilitation or mental health counselors work with the mentally, emotionally, and physically disabled. It is their job to help them become 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 setting. Counselors often:

1. Work with patients who abuse alcohol or are addicted to drugs.

2. Interview and observe patients to determine problem area.

3. Conduct personality. Aptitude, achievement, and psychologist test.

4. Help patients find and keep jobs.

Average salary: $25,000-$45,000

 

Educational Requirements:

 

Students interested in becoming counselors should take a challenge high school curriculum.

A batchelors degree in education, psychology, or society is the minimum requirement for low level counseling jobs, but a master’s degree is requirement for most. To become lisensend by a state, counselors must pass written and oral examination and work for about two years in a supervised clinical setting.

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