Rehabilitation or Mental Health Counselors

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                        Duties and Responsibilities…

            Rehabilitation or mental health counselor’s work with mentally, emotionally, physically disabled. It is there job to help patients develop more faith in themselves. They work with patients to help them become self-sufficient and productive. Councilors often work closely with their patients’’ doctors and family. Counselors may work in a private practice, for schools, industry, or in hospital or residential health care setting. Counselors often:

v  Work with patience who abuse alcohol or addicted to drugs.

v  Interview and observe patients to determine problem areas.

v  Conduct personality, aptitude, achievement, and physiological tests.

v  Help patience 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 bachelor’s degree in education psychology or sociology is the minimum requirement of low level consoling jobs, but a master’s degree id required for most to become licensed by a state, consoling must pass written and oral examination and work for about two years in supervised clinical setting.

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