• They meet with clients to help them overcome problems.

• They need to study their patients for different reasons. Ex: suicidal thoughts or attempts.

• Encourage their clients to express themselves and learn to open up.

• Help their clients to learn how to deal with their problems.

• Therapy Counseling: You must know the procedures for rehabilitation.

• Psychology: You must know and understand peoples behaviors.

• English Language: You must understand the meaning to vocabulary words and have good grammar

• Customer/Personal Service: You need to know how to provide personal service.

• Critical Thinking: you need to be able to be aware of strengths and weaknesses of solutions in order to solve their problems.

• Active Listening: You need to be able to provide full attention to your client, NO INTERUPTING, and in the end ask questions.

• Service Orientation: Constantly looking for ways to help people

• Social Perceptiveness: Having an understanding of why patients act the way they do.

• Speech Clarity: you must be able to speak clearly so your patient can understand you.

• Speech Recognition: you need to identify and comprehend the speech of your patient.

• Oral Comprehension: you need to be able to listen to your patient and know the ideas that they are presenting.

• Problem Sensitivity: you need to be aware of something that has gone wrong or is likely to go wrong.

• SOCIAL: working with people, teaching them and helping.

• INVESTIGATIVE: determined to solve a lot of problems, requires A LOT of thinking

• ARTISTIC: working with ideas, and can be done without a stable set of rules.

•Occupational Therapist•Child/school/Family Social

Worker•Recreational Therapist•Social/Human service

assistants

• employment in 2008 : 152,000. Employment by 2018 : 168,800 (increase by 11%)

• Some may work in schools or hospitals, others in their private office and set their own hours. They usually set their hours based on their clients needs. Those who are employed in the hospitals may work shifts compared to others.

• Employment for counselors is expected to grow more rapidly than the average other occupations. There will be more job opportunities for those who graduate.

• Get an understanding of who your clients is as a person by interviewing them and studying their history.

• Counsel individuals on: Stress, alcohol abuse, behavior/personality problems or family struggles.

• Discuss the treatments of problems with your clients

• Write reports on them

• Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior, individuals abilities/personality/&interests

• Therapy and Counseling: knowledge of methods and procedures for a diagnosis/ treatment

• English Language: you need to know the meaning of spelling words and grammar

• Sociology and anthropology: knowledge of group behaviors

• Speaking: talking to others to express information in a way that will effect them

• Active Listening: you must give full attention to what people are saying

• Social Perceptiveness: you need to be aware of others reactions and have an understanding of why they react that way they do

• Critical Thinking: using logic to identify strengths and weaknesses of the patient.

• Problem Sensitivity: the ability to tell something is wrong or will go wrong

• Oral Expression: ability to talk about information and ideas so the other person will understand

• Oral Comprehension: ability to listen and understand spoken information

• Speech Clarity: The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you

• INVESTIAGE: searching for facts and figuring out problems• SOCIAL: frequently involved with communicating and teaching

people and providing assistance• ARTISTIC: to self express and be able to work with out a set of

rules

• -Child/family/school social worker• - counseling psychologist• -occupational therapist

• Projection: The employment in 2008 was 152,000. By 2018 the percent would increase by 11% and by 16800. By 2018 the employment would be 168,800

• Work Environment: -Some may work in schools or hospitals or private office –usually set hours based off clients needs but those who work in the hospitals may work shifts

• Job Outlook: Employment of psychologists is expected to grow as fast as average

• - Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital.- Test and evaluate the physical and mental abilities of patients.

• - Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life

• - Evaluate the progress of patients and prepare reports that detail progress.

• -  Therapy and Counseling: procedures for diagnosis and treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions-

• Psychology: Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests.

• - Education and Training: Knowledge of principles for curriculum, teaching and instructions for individuals and groups.- Sociology and Anthropology — knowledge of group behavior

• - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting.

• - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.

• - Talking to others to express points efficiently.

• - Using logic and reasoning to identify the positives and negatives of solutions.

• Problem Sensitivity: the ability to tell when something is wrong or likely to go wrong

• Oral Comprehension: the ability to listen and understand someone when they speak

• Oral Expression: the ability to communicate information and ideas by speaking

• Speech Clarity: the ability to speak clearly so that others can understand you

• SOCIAL: frequently involved with people and teaching people, communication with them and providing assistance

• INVESTIGATE: working with ideas and a great amount of thinking in order to problem solve

• Social and Human Service Assistants• Recreational Therapist • Physical Therapists

• Projection: in 2008 the employment was 104,500. Percent increases by 26% by the number of 26,800, making the employment in 2018 131,300.

• Work Environment: In large Rehabilitation centers. The work can be tiring because the therapist may be on their feet all day working with their clients.

• Job Outlook: Employment is expected to grow faster than average. Job opportunities should be good, especially for occupational therapists treating the elderly.