What Do I Need to Become a Therapist? How Much Money Do They Earn?
Question by Journeystep: What do I need to become a therapist? How much money do they earn?
How hard is it to become one? And what courses should I be taking in high school to get ready for it. Lots of information would be appreciated! Thank you.
Best answer:
Answer by paulfriedman7
What kind of a therapist? You can probably land a job as a psychiatric social worker with just a Masters degree in Social Work or Psychology. A Masters is four-years of undergraduate college, followed by two years for a Masters degree. Psychology is one of the “easier” sciences, compared to say, Nuclear Physics. But it is still college and will be harder than high school.
http://www.indeed.com/salary/Psychiatric-Social-Worker.html
To have much chance of landing a position as a psychologist you need to have a Ph.D. Add three more years to the Masters.
http://www1.salary.com/Psychologist-Salary.html
To be a psychiatrist you need to attend medical school. That’s four years of undergraduate college, four years of medical school, and three years of residency (supervised medical practice).
http://www1.salary.com/psychiatrist-Salary.html
There are many other kinds of therapists: Youth Counselors, Substances Abuse Counselors, Family Counselors, Marriage Counselors, etc. And this is only talking about mental health therapy. There are other kinds of “therapy” such physical therapy.
http://explorehealthcareers.org/en/home
In high school all you need to do is take the standard college prep classes:
http://www.ucop.edu/a-gGuide/ag/a-g/a-g_reqs.html
more college admissions info
https://sites.google.com/site/paul7collegeinfo/
(see: Going on to Grad School? and Going on to Professional School?)
http://www.allpsychologycareers.com/
In this last link, avoid its recommendations for schools. These are little more than advertisements for for-profit trade schools such as DeVry and Kaplan. Degrees from such schools are pretty much worthless for getting jobs. Instead use
https://sites.google.com/site/paul7collegeinfo/home/find-out-about-colleges-and-univeristies
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