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What does a mental health counselor do?

agnosticdwarve asked:

Most colleges over this separatly from getting a masters in counseling so I wasn’t sure what it all entailed. I will have a psychology degree next May but I don’t want to go to grad school b/c I have no idea what I want to do with. I don’t want to spend the time getting a higher degree in counseling or clinical b/c I’m not interested in that. I’m just a bit confused on the difference between a masters in counseling and a masters in mental health counseling.
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4 Responses to “What does a mental health counselor do?”

  1. smh73448 on May 7th, 2009 4:35 am

    They listen you your problems then either give you medicine or not. They listen to you complain and give you ther opinion on how to deal with it.

  2. THATHA75 on May 9th, 2009 7:19 am

    Counselling can be general advice on various issues help .
    Mental health is too personal relating to ones own frutration
    and nervous breakdowns failures in life etc. May be if they had the general counselling earlier they could have avoided the second stage!!!

  3. Conrad on May 9th, 2009 10:45 am

    The first sentence in your statement confuses me, so I’m unclear as to what you meant to say. A mental health counselor seeks to align a client’s thinking with reality. He or she may ask questions that will eventually dispel illusions or illogical thinking. A good therapist will teach the mental health consumer to be his or her own best counselor, providing the tools for self-examination, positive self-talk, and techniques to raise self-esteem.

    If you want to work with the general population in counseling, then go for the Masters in Counseling. If you wish to work with psychiatric pathologies, then prepare for the other option. With the former, you could work as a marriage counselor or similar specialty. With the latter, you’d be seeing folk who are delusional, depressed, paranoid, or whatever the malady of the moment may be. Of course, there is some cross-over between these fields. Life will certainly be more exciting in the mental health field. No two days will ever be the same.

  4. palador on May 12th, 2009 6:16 am

    basically, counselling is a skill which has to be put to practice, no use just getting a degree either in psychology or counselling, and not taking up any job in the field. the premier institutes of social work, like tiss from mumbai, have a post-graduate course in social work, with specialisation in medical and psychiatric social work. a student selected for this two year’s programme is thouroughly trained in adult and child psychiatry. mental health can not be without a clinical set-up, so if you do not have the aptitude for clinical practice, just forget about going in for any of these branches in counselling. conselling can be vocational, employee, aptitude-testing, i.q. testing etc. for counselling to the mental health patients, it’s more in the area of deaddiction, suupprt groups of relatives of scizophrinic patients and delinquents, in child guidance clinics for problems like epilepsy, truancy, bedwetting etc. so if you are really interested in this area, then only go ahead.