This book is about jobs and education in these fields:
psychology
psychiatry
mental health
counseling/ therapy
sociology
The helping fields are education, medicine, mental health, counseling, social work, teaching, rehabilitation and physical/ mental therapy.
There is a lot of debate about how helping the psychology, psychiatry and mental health fields are because they have created a matrix for themselves called the DSM, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders which they want to put people into but people are individual human beings. You can't put a label on anyone then give them standard cookie-cutter therapy because everyone has a unique life. I'm not here to debate that, just to talk about schools and jobs for these professions.
There are counseling jobs that are not as one-dimensional as following the DSM script to categorize someone into a mental illness such as peer counselors. Somebody finally had the sense to realize that life experience helps a person help others in the same boat way more than someone who took courses at college and got some license which doesn't mean they're a caring, empathetic person.
That's why I think our mental health system fails, because it emphasizes people getting licenses so they can slap a disgnosis on someone then make money filling drug prescriptions rather than talking one-on-one as a caring friend.
There are government and private enterprise jobs in counseling, recreational therapy, etc.
Psychology helpers help others one-on-one in:
mental matters
spiritual matters
Some mental health occupational titles are as follows:
college and student personnel workers
community outreach workers
guidance counselors
mental health counselors
occupational therapists
occupational therapy assistants
psychiatric aides
psychiatrists
psychologists
special education counselors
There are jobs with:
private for-profit companies, usually healthcare
nonprofit and charitable organizations
governments at all levels
The 93 volumes on psychology-mental health-psychiatry-counseling-therapy jobs are as follows:
Volume 1. The Truth About Psychology as a Job or Career
Volume 2. The Game of Psychology Degrees
Volume 3. A Psychology Student Guide
Volume 4. A Psychology Degree Guide
Volume 5. A Psychology Graduate School Guide
Volume 6. A Psychology Career Exploration Guide
Volume 7. A Psychology Department/ Degree Guide for the United States and Canada
Volume 8. Lists of United States and Canada College Psychology Departments
Volume 9. A Graduate Psychology Degree Guide
Volume 10. College Psychology Department Websites by U.S. State
Volume 11. College Psychology Departments in Canada
Volume 12. Graduate Psychology Degrees in Canada
Volume 13. A List of College Psychology Departments Worldwide 1
Volume 14. A List of College Psychology Departments Worldwide 2
Volume 15. A List of College Psychology Departments Worldwide 3
Volume 16. College Psychology Departments in Some English Countries, not U.S. Or Canada
Volume 17. Some College Psychology Departments in Non-English Countries
