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Benefits of Being a Social Worker with a Master’s Degree

Benefits of Being a Social Worker with a Master’s Degree
Regardless of what profession one chooses to pursue, whether it’s Accounting, Social Work, or even Engineering there’s always a benefit to earning a higher degree, such as a master’s or a doctorate. Aside from simply earning a higher salary, which is most often the case, there’s the reality that a higher degree translates into holding…
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Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Community Psychologists

Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Community Psychologists
Using a wider lens to view mental health issues, the role of a community psychologist differs greater from the traditional role of a psychologist who often delivers psychotherapy that focuses on individuals, couples, and smaller groups. In the field, community psychologists act as a bridge between larger groups of people and services, working to address…
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How to Get Better Grades in Your Psychology Degree Program

How to Get Better Grades in Your Psychology Degree Program
Believe it or not, professors are people too. In fact, they once sat where you – the college student – are sitting right now. No one is born a professor, and even the most highly revered scholar was once a freshman sweating out his first mid-term. Truth of the matter is they may even be…
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Choosing a Doctorate Program in Psychology

Choosing a Doctorate Program in Psychology
The increasing need for more professionals to better understand and treat the minds and behavioral patterns of patients has led to a growing interest in psychology doctorate degrees. Many graduates go back to school to obtain a Ph.D. in Psychology or a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree when they wish to start a private practice,…
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MFT Comparison: Students Loans vs. Potential Salary after Graduation

MFT Comparison: Students Loans vs. Potential Salary after Graduation
Thinking about what your student loan repayment schedule might consist of prior to enrollment in college is an admirable assessment to be making. Obviously the exact figures can only be calculated when the variable amounts are disclosed: tuition cost, rate of interest, months allotted for repayment etc.; and your financial aid advisor will be able…
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Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Domestic Abuse Counselors

Employment Outlook & Career Guidance for Domestic Abuse Counselors
If you are considering a career as a Domestic Abuse Counselor, your career outlook is extremely positive. While the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that the overall employment outlook is growth of 5% through 2031; the Bureau projects that the field of substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counseling (a broad category…
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Working While in a Counseling Master’s Program

Working While in a Counseling Master’s Program
To Work or Not to Work, That Is the Question… One of the most important questions you can ask yourself before commencing a counseling master’s program is, “Is it imperative that I work?” In other words, are you working to maintain a place to live, buy food and pay bills or are you working to…
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Can a Counseling Degree Make Me Rich?

Can a Counseling Degree Make Me Rich?
A prerequisite to knowing if a counseling degree can make you rich requires an answer to the question, “What is rich?”Rich is an objective concept and not quantifiable by any static measure. One man might feel that living in a well-groomed middle-class neighborhood is poverty, while another man sees it as his kingdom. Some people…
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I Majored in Psychology – Now What?

I Majored in Psychology – Now What?
The Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology: Getting That First Job Throughout history there have been reports of an odd sounding noise flooding the halls of psychology departments on campuses across the nation. The source? It seems that the tone and tenor of millions of psychology undergrads scratching their heads has culminated into an audible query which…
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Choosing a Psychology Specialty

Choosing a Psychology Specialty
Back in the “old days” there were few choices when it came to selecting a doctor, lawyer, psychologist, dentist etc. Typically a town had one doctor to deliver local babies, perform necessary surgeries, diagnosis all kinds of maladies and treat whoever knocked on the door with a sundry of internal or external injuries. The same…
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