The Current Recession is Increasing the Need for Counseling Services?

Answer 1

Counseling services are useful for a variety of situations. There are family counselors that specialize in mental health issues, drug addictions, divorce issues, abuse, and other specialty areas. It is often useful to involve a third party person to help resolve family issues. Many times family members are not able to converse in a healthy way, and they need someone with professional skills to step in and mediate the process.

Counseling services are also available to abortion victims, rape victims, violent crime victims, and other people that have suffered trauma. Military people that have fought in wars are also in need of these services. Exposure to trauma can cause a number of mental health issues. Without help these mental problems can escalate into further issues. It is best to get a trained professional involved at a early stage.

Individual and group counseling services are available. In some cases, it may be useful to counsel family members in both settings. There may be some issues that have to be dealt with in private, and the other issues need to be handled in a group settings.

A licensed counselor is required to provide professional counseling services. Each state has its own requirements. Most professionals have to have graduated from an accredited school. It is usually necessary to have a master level degree to practice in the profession, and it is also necessary to have participated in an internship or practicum for licensure.

Most degree programs require students to practice under another licensed professional for two years or a minimum of hours. The minimum requirement varies according to the specific state.

Once the practicum is completed, the graduate must take a test and pass. After successful completion of the exam, the professional is issued a counseling license to practice in that state. Counselors make good salaries. They are needed in all different agencies. Schools, universities, hospitals, and many other industries hire licensed counselors.

Stress is very common these days, and there is definitely an increase in mental health problems across the country. Counseling services are needed more and more each day. One specialty is geriatric counseling. Elderly people tend to suffer from depression and loneliness. There are counselors trained especially for this area of the population.