THE PROFFESIONALS AND

PRACTITIONERS IN THE
DISCIPLINE OF COUNSELING
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR COUNSELORS
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 CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COUNSELORS
Career opportunities for counselors cover corporate
environment in human resources departments, school student
services departments, academe, NGOs, court, detentions and
prison setting, as well as in a wide range of human
development service providers.
they can work as individual professionals or as members of
a team or as employees in agencies and departments that deal
with people.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COUNSELORS
 EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOOL COUNSELORS
 VOCATIONAL OR CAREER COUNSELORS
 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELORS
 ADDICTIONS AND BEHAVIORAL COUNSELORS
 MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS
 REHABILITATION COUNSELORS
 GENETICS COUNSELORS
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COUNSELORS
 EDUCATIONAL AND SCHOOL
COUNSELORS
They offer personal, educational, social and
academic counseling services. The professionals
often work in elementary school, high school, or
university settings to help students assess their
abilities and resolve personal or social problems.
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COUNSELORS
 VOCATIONAL OR CAREER COUNSELORS
These professionals facilitate career decision-making. They aid
individuals or groups in determining jobs that are best suited to their
needs, skills and interests.
They may also help clients who are already employed to improve
their skills, including how to manage work-related stress or burnout.
For those seeking jobs, they also provide skills such as practicing
for an interview and developing a meaningful and acceptable resume.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COUNSELORS
 MARRIAGE AND FAMILY COUNSELORS
These professionals offer a wide range of services
for couples and families.
They also helps couples and families deal with
social issues, emotional problems, and in some cases,
mental health treatment.
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COUNSELORS
 ADDICTION AND BEHAVIORAL COUNSELORS
These professionals work with people suffering from
addictions.
These may range from drugs, alcohol, sex, eating disorder
to gambling.
They help family members who have been affected by the
addicts’ actions to deal with the situation and as much as
possible survive the wounds.
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
COUNSELORS
 MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELORS
These professionals work with people suffering from mental or
psychological distress such as anxiety, phobias, depression, grief,
esteem issues, trauma, substance abuse, and related issues.
Their clients can be individuals undergoing treatment; that is why
mental health counselors often work as part of a treatment team.
In treatment centers, counselors have physician, psychologies,
social workers and other health care professionals.
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COUNSELORS
 REHABILITATION COUNSELORS
These professionals are engaged with individuals
suffering from physical or emotional disabilities.
They provide services such as evaluation of the strengths
and limitations of clients.
The goal is to facilitate the rehabilitation process and
prevent relapse.
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COUNSELORS
 GENETICS COUNSELORS
These professionals operate in a very specialized context of dealing with
genetic information for individuals and the decisions that come with it.
The common area here is counseling parents who are concerned with
determining if their potential offspring might be at risk for being born with an
inherited disorder, or individual adults themselves who may be at risk of
developing genetic disease such as heart disease and breast cancer.
This group of professional work as members of health care team composed
of doctors, geneticists, nurses and social workers.
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which among the presented career
opportunities for counselors do you
think will be easy for them to do?
Why do you say so? Cite some
practical examples?
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