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 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 settings. Counselors often:
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Work
with patients who abuse alcohol or are addicted to drugs.
·
Interview
and observe patients to determine problem areas.
·
Conduct
personality, aptitude, achievement, and psychological tests.
·
Helps
patients fine keep jobs
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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 low level counseling jobs,
but 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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