Rehabilitation or Mental Health Counselors

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Duties and responsibilities:

Rehabilitation or mental healt councelors work with the mentally, emotionally, and physically disabled. It is their job to help paitients develop more faith in themselves. They work with paitenets to help them become self-sufficient and productive. Councelors often work closley with their patients’ doctors and family. Councelors may work in private practice, for schools, industry, or in the hospital or residential health care settings. Councelors often:

·        Work with patients who abuse alchohol or are 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 Requierments:

               Studentts interested in becoming counselors should take a challenging high school curriculum.

               A bachelors degree in education, physyology, or sociology is the minimum requirement for low level counseling jobs, but a masters degree is required for 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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