Trained in psychotherapy and family systems. Focus on understanding their clients’ symptoms and interaction patterns within their existing environment. Treat predominantly individuals, but also provide couples, family and group therapy. Whomever the client, treatment is from a relationship perspective that incorporates family systems.
What is a Marriage and Family Therapist?
100
A master’s-degreed mental health service provider, trained to work with individuals, families, and groups in treating mental, behavioral, and emotional problems and disorders.
What is a Licensed Professional Counselor?
100
Tasked with either helping people manage their everyday lives or diagnosing and treating mental, behavioral, or emotional issues.
What is a Social Worker?
100
These counselors provide counseling for people who experience addiction as well as other related behavioral problems. They provide treatment and support to help the client recover from addiction or modify problem behaviors. These counselors work with clients both one-on-one and in group settings. Many incorporate the principles of Twelve Step Facilitation, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, and other evidence-based practices to guide their practice. They teach clients how to manage their addiction and provide them with strategies to help with their recovery.
What is a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor?
100
Major employers of LADC's include these:
What are Hospitals, Outpatient care centers, Residential patient care centers, Local and state government agencies?
200
Diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders.
Individual child (15%) and adult (47%) psychotherapy
Couple, family, and group therapy (38%)
Treatment planning
Marriage and relationship counseling
Premarital education and marital enrichment
Life coaching
What does a Marriage and Family Therapist do?
200
The practice of professional counseling includes but is not limited to the diagnosis and treatment of mental and emotional disorders, including addictive disorders; psychoeducational techniques aimed at prevention of such disorders; consultation individuals, couples, families, groups, organizations; and research into more effective therapeutic modalities.
Bachelor's Degree
270 clock hours of specific alcohol and drug counseling course work
880 hour alcohol and drug counseling practicum
--AND one of the following--
Passing score on written comprehensive exam or
Passing score on written and oral exam
--OR--
Passing score on written exam (not comprehensive exam)
2,000 hours of supervised professional practice acceptable to the board
What is are the requirements for Licensure as an LADC?
200
Private Practice
Community Mental Health Centers
Inpatient Facilities
Employee Assistance Programs
Health Maintenance Organizations
Business and Consulting Companies
Schools and Head Start Centers
Social Service Agencies
Universities and Research Centers
Courts and Prisons
Rural Clinics
What do Marriage and Family Therapists practice?
300
98.1% of clients rated services good or excellent
97.1% got the kind of help they desired
91.2% were satisfied with the amount of help they received
93% said they were helped in dealing more effectively with problems
94.3% would return to the same therapist in the future
96.9% would recommend their therapist to a friend
97.4% were generally satisfied with the service they received
63.4% reported improved physical health
54.8% reported improvement in functioning at work
73.7% indicated improvement in children’s behavior
58.7% showed improvement in children’s school performance
Why Marriage and Family Therapist's are THE BEST type of mental health professional?
300
Possession of a master’s or doctoral degree in counseling from a national or regionally-accredited institution of higher education; Completion of a minimum of 3000 hours post-masters degree supervised clinical experience;passage of the National Counselor Examination (NCE) or a similar
state-recognized exam.
What are state licensure requirements for
professional counselors?
300
The licensure designation for baccalaureate level social worker.
What is LSW, licensed social worker?
300
Screening, intake, orientation, assessment, treatment planning, counseling, case management, crisis intervention, client education, referral, reports and record keeping, consultation with other professionals.
What are Core Functions of LPC's?
300
Social workers are employed in a variety of settings, including:
Where is mental health clinic, school, child welfare and human service agency, hospital, and private practice?
400
Graduate from an accredited master’s or doctoral
program, pass both state and national examinations,
and complete a minimum of two years (4,000 hours)
of post-graduate supervised practice experience.
What are the requirements to become licensed as an LMFT?
400
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_mn.htm) professional counselor’s salaries in Minnesota range between $41,000-$52,000. Specific salaries depend on the kind of license, the type of counseling, whether care is being administered in a private practice or part of a state program, and many other factors
What is the career outlook?
400
Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW), Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW), and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW). (A person can apply for LGSW without work experience. The LGSW moves up to LISW or LICSW after a period of supervised experience. An LISW can go into independent practice in nonclinical social work. In order to go into independent clinical practice, though, the candidate must have an LICSW.)
What are the licensure designations for master's level social workers?
400
The state board to administers licensure for LADC's.
What is the Minnesota Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy (BBHT)?
400
The settings LPC's typically practice in:
Where are universities, private practice, schools business and industry, vocational, hospitals, physicians offices, prisons, residential facilities, places of ministry?
500
Overall, the job outlook for marriage family therapists is very good. There is a high expectation for career growth in this field. In the state of Minnesota there were 820 individuals employed as marriage family therapists in 2010. The average mean salary of these professionals in the state of Minnesota was $48,650. The national average wage for mental health employees is $38,150 and for those working in marriage and family therapy the average wage is $45,720.
What is the career outlook for LMFT's?
500
The most common specialties are school counseling, mental health counseling, college counseling, couples and family
counseling, rehabilitation counseling, career counseling and substance abuse counseling.
What type of LPC's are there?
500
Social work is one of the fastest growing professions in the country according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are already an estimated 650,500 social workers employed across the country and that number is expected to increase by 25 percent by 2020, including an estimated 31 percent increase in the number of mental health and substance abuse social workers. Average income ranges $30,000-71,000.
What is the career outlook?
500
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, job openings are expected to increase 34.4% nationally between 2006 and 2016. Minnesota jobs growth is anticipated to be nearly as strong during that period, with growth expected to be 32.7%. Average income in MN is $30,000-53,000.
What is the career outlook?
500
Organize the following settings in order of -highest to lowest- COST for client: (1)School, (2)Outpatient, (3)Primary Care, Other Inpatient, (4)Inpatient Hospital, (5)Juvenile Justice, (6)Informal Services (religious counselor/other healer).
What is Inpatient Hospital, Other Inpatient, Outpatient, School, Primary Care, Juvenile Justice, Informal Services?