Mental Health-Psychology-Psychiatry-Counselor Job-School Guide (eBook)

This book is about jobs and education in these fields:psychologypsychiatrymental healthcounseling/ therapysociologyThe helping fields are education, medicine, mental health, counseling, social work, teaching, rehabilitation and physical/ mental therapy. There is a lot of debate about how helping the psychology, psychiatry and mental health fields are because they have created a matrix for themselves called the DSM, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which they want to put people into but people are individual human beings. You can't put a label on anyone then give them standard cookie-cutter therapy because everyone has a unique life. I'm not here to debate that, just to talk about schools and jobs for these professions.There are counseling jobs that are not as one-dimensional as following the DSM script to categorize someone into a mental illness such as peer counselors. Somebody finally had the sense to realize that life experience helps a person help others in the same boat way more than someone who took courses at college and got some license which doesn't mean they're a caring, empathetic person. That's why I think our mental health system fails, because it emphasizes people getting licenses so they can slap a disgnosis on someone then make money filling drug prescriptions rather than talking one-on-one as a caring friend. There are government and private enterprise jobs in counseling, recreational therapy, etc. Psychology helpers help others one-on-one in:mental mattersspiritual mattersSome mental health occupational titles are as follows:college and student personnel workerscommunity outreach workersguidance counselorsmental health counselorsoccupational therapistsoccupational therapy assistantspsychiatric aidespsychiatristspsychologistsspecial education counselorsThere are jobs with:private for-profit companies, usually healthcarenonprofit and charitable organizationsgovernments at all levelsThe 93 volumes on psychology-mental health-psychiatry-counseling-therapy jobs are as follows:Volume 1. The Truth About Psychology as a Job or CareerVolume 2. The Game of Psychology Degrees