A Psychology-Social Work Job Guide

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The 56 volumes on jobs that help people personally are as follows:

 

Volume 1. Psychology Education: Where to Get Psychology Degrees Worldwide

Volume 2. Psychology Department/ Degree Guide for the United States and Canada

Volume 3. Information for Graduate Students

Volume 4. Medical and Nursing Schools for Psychiatry

Volume 5. A Big List of Worldwide Psychology Organizations (No Websites) from the Almost Defunct psymeet.com

Volume 6. Information for People Working in the Psychology-MH Fields

Volume 7. Psychology-Psychiatry-Mental Health Job Guide 1

Volume 8. Psychology-Psychiatry-Mental Health Job Guide 2

Volume 9. Psychology-Psychiatry-Mental Health Job Guide 3

Volume 10. Psychology-Psychiatry-Mental Health Job Guide 4

Volume 11. School Psychology Guide

Volume 12. A Mental Health Job Guide

Volume 13. A Human Service Job Website Guide

Volume 14. Counselor-Therapy Job Guide

Volume 15. Mental Health Professional Organization Guide Mostly from theagapecenter.com/Organizations/Mental-Health/index.htm

Volume 16. Counselor and Therapy Organization Guide from theagapecenter.com/Organizations/Counseling.htm

Volume 17. Counselor and Therapy Organization Guide from theagapecenter.com/Organizations/Specialties/index.htm

Volume 18. Find MH/ Psychiatric Professionals, Clinics and Hospitals in the U.S. by State

Volume 19. thenationalcouncil.org Lists MH Organizations and Professionals by State in the U.S.

Volume 20. theagapecenter.com/Hospitals/Psychiatric.htm U.S. Psychiatric Center/ Hospital Guide

Volume 21. Mental Health-Psychology Association-Organization Guide

Volume 22. U.S. Mental Health Organizations by State Guide

Volume 23. A Therapy Guide

Volume 24. A Mental Health Professional Guide

Volume 25. A Relationship, Marriage and Family Therapy Guide

Volume 26. A Psychology-Mental Health Business Website Guide for Workers in the Biz

Volume 27. A Mental Health Website Guide for Workers and Patients-Consumers

Volume 28. Substance Abuse Career School and Job Guide

Volume 29. A Social Work Guide

Volume 30. Rehab-Helping Professions

Volume 31. Caregiver Career

Volume 32. Job Websites by Caring Field from dmoz-odp.org/Business/Employment/By_Industry

Volume 33. A Speech-Language Job-Info Guide

Volume 34. Nonprofit Job Guide

Volume 35. A Childcare-Daycare Guide 1

Volume 36. A Childcare-Daycare Guide 2

Volume 37. A Worldwide Childcare Guide

Volume 38. A Childcare Website Guide at dmoz-odp.org/Home/Family/Childcare

Volume 39. A Childcare Job-Daycare Business Guide

Volume 40. Liberal Arts Job Websites Mostly from the Defunct sc.edu/career Website

Volume 41. Social Service Resource Guide

Volume 42. Use this to Find Jobs: A Job and Social Support Website Guide by U.S. State at careeronestop.org/ExOffender/Toolkit/find-state-resources.aspx

Volume 43. Substance Abuse Resource Guide

Volume 44. Substance Abuse Treatment Guide

Volume 45. A List of U.S. Substance Abuse Treatment Centers by State Courtesy of theagapecenter.com/Treatment-Centers/index.htm and usrecovery.info/Treatment-Centers

Volume 46. Canada Substance Abuse Guide

Volume 47. Senior Housing Guide (Living on Your Own)

Volume 48. Disabled Adults Independent Living

Volume 49. Caregiver Guide

Volume 50. Homecare, Getting Help to Live at Home

Volume 51. Assisted Living, Leave Home to Live With Professional Help at Some Level From Minimal to Total Care

Volume 52. Canada Older People Guide

Volume 53. United States Domestic Violence Guide

Volume 54. A List of U.S. and Canada Government and Organization Websites

Volume 55. Lists of State Government Agency Websites plus County and City Websites by State from statelocalgov.net

Volume 56. World’s Biggest Volunteer Guide

 

This book is about jobs and education in these fields:

 

psychology

mental health

substance abuse/ addiction

social work

counseling/ therapy

caregiver/ homecare

senior care at home or in a retirement/ nursing home

childcare

rehabilitation

nonprofits

government

sociology

 

The helping fields are in education, medicine, mental health, counseling, social work, teaching, rehabilitation and physical/ mental therapy. 

 

I created separate job books for nonprofits, teaching, medicine and disabilities because there is too much info to put in one book.  The epub conversion machine breaks down.

 

There are many counseling jobs that are not as one-dimensional as following the DSM to categorize someone into a mental illness. 

 

There are government and private enterprise jobs in counseling, caregiving, rehab, homecare, orderly, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, rehab therapy, recreational therapy, substance abuse therapy, nursing homes, etc.

 

Helpers help others one-on-one in:

 

mental matters

 

spiritual matters

 

physical matters as in rehabilitation after injury or illness

 

practical matters, get a house, get a job, start a business, etc.

 

Police are in the security field.

 

EMTs are in the medical field.

 

Some helping occupational titles are as follows:

 

clergy

college and student personnel workers

community outreach workers

equal employment opportunity and affirmative action specialists

guidance counselors

human services workers

mental health counselors

occupational therapists

occupational therapy assistants

personnel workers

physical therapy assistants and aides

psychiatric aides

psychiatrists

psychologists

religious workers

social workers

special education counselors

training and employee development specialists

 

There are jobs with:

 

private for-profit companies, usually healthcare, homecare and assisted living

nonprofit and charitable organizations

governments at all levels, my list of government websites is in my government job book

 

The jobs in the caregiving field are generally not highly skilled but the jobs are there.  There are many disabled and elderly people that constantly need general assistance, non-medical therapeutical care (such as exercise, talking, playing games, recreation) and medical care all the time.

 

This book contains jobs in fields like general counseling, social work, the rehab professions like occupational and speech-language therapy, childcare/ daycare, taking care of disabled people, senior care, caregiving and other human service jobs.

 

Substance abuse supposedly afflicts 25 million Americans.  Treatment is a huge industry.  You can pay me for this book or find what you need at theagapecenter.com, a huge database of substance abuse help.

 

Psychology is now a huge industry that is way bigger than mental health, mental illness or abnormal/ clinical psychology.

 

Psychology in the APA, American Psychological Association has over 50 divisions representing 50+ subfields, different areas where they dissect human life and say we should study this and create new “knowledge” about human life here.

 

My focus here is three things:

 

go to college and get some kind of psychology, mental health degree or degrees

 

find a job in one of the many psychology fields

 

resources for the college student majoring in psychology and psychology-mental professionals working in the field, mainly how to get into grad school, write an academic article, how to do research, do experiements, etc.

 

Most psychology-MH jobs are hands-on type jobs where you work one-on-one with people trying to help them in some way either in school, on the job, with an addiction, be a better athlete, with a pregnancy, failed marriage and with life in general.

 

There are infrastructure jobs such as in corporate human resource departments and line jobs on the factory floor where they’re looking for ways to help people like their jobs and perform better.

 

NASA at nasa.gov, the space agency, employs psychologists, most likely like to keep tabs on all those employees to see if they’re stealing secrets and selling them.

 

Governments and the mental health industry have created a big infrastructure for counseling people with many thousands of jobs so the jobs are there in counseling.  I tell you where to find them.

 

Many psychologists, psychiatrists and other self-help, mental health and life coach experts/ therapists are in private practice giving therapy, counseling, advice, etc.  You have to get a state license beyond the degrees to practice as a psychologist.

 

For general information about the entire mental health infrastructure, refer to my other books.

 

Substance abuse supposedly afflicts 25 million Americans.  Treatment is a huge industry. 

Don’t Overestimate a Psychology Degree

 

Many people have bachelor, Master and Doctorate degrees in psychology and can’t find a decent job in the field because psychology is psychobabble.  Exactly what real skill do you have after you learn about Freud and related stuff?  Many people don’t believe in any of it, that those courses don’t give you any insight into life.

 

It’s not like you have a practical skill like a plumber or an MD.

 

It can be hard to get into grad school after a psych undergrad degree because it’s so competitive.  In those cases, go to education or social work schools.

 

You might find online graduate psychology degrees.

 

Study whatever subfield you want to get into first to see if there are job opportunities after you graduate.

 

About the only sure things are abnormal and clinic psychology, school and educational psychology.

 

Some Psychology Degree Options

 

MA, MS, MEd, MSW, PhD, PsyD, EdD are examples of psychology graduate degrees.

 

All doctoral degrees in liberal arts disciplines end with a doctor of philosophy degree PhD.

 

The PsyD degree is awarded in the areas of clinical and counseling psychology only.

 

The PhD degree prepares clinical psychologists to be researchers as well as practitioners.

 

The PsyD prepares clinicians to be practitioners.

 

In social work, there is a master of social work degree, MSW and a doctor of social work degree DSW; sometimes, a PhD.

 

 In education, the master of education degree is either the MEd or the EdM.

 

The doctor of education degree is the EdD.

 

In psychology graduate programs, most programs are straight psychobabble.

 

If your sub-field is clinical or counseling psychology, you will

have to do internships conducting psychotherapy and psychological testing.

 

You’ll have to understand research methodology and do some studies.

 

Graduate programs in counselor education place less emphasis on research than practical internships to be able to diagnose people’s problems.

 

With school psychology, you do tests to determine a learning disability.

 

Clinical Social Work programs help you diagnosis and treat

psychological problems.

 

A license is a credential awarded by the state, not an educational institution.

 

A license gives you legal authority to work in that field in that state.

 

A licensed psychologist needs a doctoral degree and a year of supervised clinical work during graduate school

 

When individuals with master's degrees in psychology are licensed, they carry a title like psychological associate or psychological assistant to distinguish them from licensed psychologists.

 

They are eligible for two licenses:

 

a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist LMFT

a Licensed Professional Counselor LPC. O

 

Certificates are quality-control credentials awarded by professional organizations, not a state or an educational institution.

 

psycom/careers/options.htm

 

Psychology Career Education Websites

 

apa.org/ed/accreditation/programsx, apa accredited doctoral programs in professional psychology.

aamft.org/imis15/aamft/directories/mft_training_programs/content/directories/mft_training_programs.aspx, directory of marriage and family therapy training programs.

apa.org/education/grad/faqs.aspx, faq about psychology grad school.

siop.org/gtp, graduate training programs in i/o psychology.

uni.edu/walsh/linda2.html, pursuing psychology graduate school information page.

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