Mental Health Counselor
Duties and Responsibilities: Duties of a mental health counselor include conducting mental health assessments, developing individualized treatment plans, leading individual or group therapy sessions, running preventative mental wellness classes or workshops and making treatment referrals.
Salary: $43,190
Education: In order to become a licensed mental health counselor in most states, a master's degree is required. Schools offer master's degrees in counseling, psychology, and other related mental health fields.
Demand or Need for this profession: The overall job outlook for Mental Health Counselor careers has been positive since 2004. ... Demand for Mental Health Counselors is expected to go up, with an expected 30,100 new jobs filled by 2018. This represents an annual increase of 3.41 percent over the next few years.
Reflection: I would not want to be a Mental Health Counselor because I’m not interested in becoming a therapist or a doctor because they look creepy and I don’t like them and I want to become something more different than a doctor.
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