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 patients develop more faith in themselves. They work patients to help them become self-sufficient and productive. Counselors often work with their patient’s doctors and family. Counselors may work in private practice, for schools, industry, or in hospitals or residential health care settings. Counselors often:

·         Work with patients who abuse alcohol or addicted drugs

·         Interview and observe patients to determine problem areas

·         Conduct personality, aptitude. achievement , and psychological test

·         Help patients find and keep jobs

Average salary: $25.000-$45,000

Educational Requirements:

Students interested in becoming counselors should take challenging high school curriculum.

A bachelor’s degree in education psychology or sociology is the minimum requirement for low level counseling jobs, but a master degree is required for the 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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