[humanser] Helpful masters degrees

[JD Townsend]

Hi,

Good planning.  You are correct to be doing so now.  A social work major now 
would shorten your graduate school to a single year.  Likewise, occupational 
therapists have many pre-requisites.



-----Original Message----- 
From: Kaiti Shelton
Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:22 PM
To: Human Services Mailing List
Subject: Re: [humanser] Helpful masters degrees

Thank you all for the suggestions!  I have started looking into social
work as a possibility too.

I'm still in the really early stages of figuring this out, and it's
okay since I'm only in my second year of undergraduate work, but I
know I really want to work with kids.  I have been thinking about it,
and although I have to consider social work a bit more, I was thinking
counseling or OT would be good.  If I weren't able to work with cancer
and hematology patients, I think I'd want to work with kids who have
disabilities and teach them some rehabilitation stuff.  I have found a
music therapist who has a masters in OT and uses both methods to do
this kind of work, and she says it's really effective and can be used
with almost any client.  I think I'm leaning towards OT at the moment,
but we'll see how it goes.

On 1/25/14, Alyssa Munsell <alyssa53105 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I think Jen's idea is great. Look up job descriptions for the type of
> position you want and see what qualifications employers are looking for.
> I'm
> getting my master's in social work right now, so I can only speak to that
> degree. This is just my personal opinion, but I don't think a degree in
> social work is the best option for someone who knows they want to stick to
> doing mental health counseling. I'm in a clinical social work program, so
> there are a lot of people in my program who would ultimately like to do
> mental health therapy. However, the roots of social work lye in social
> justice, not mental health therapy. Being a social worker should involve 
> an
> interest in pursuing social justice at a larger macro level in addition to
> direct clinical work. Again, this is just my opinion, but I think social
> work has strayed too far into becoming  solely a mental health services
> profession, and the critical value of the advocacy piece of social work is
> getting increasingly overshadowed. There is definitely nothing wrong with
> professions that focus on mental health. There are just more relevant
> options than social work for people who know that is what they want to
> focus
> on, such as counseling and therapy programs.
>
> It may be a good idea for you to also research graduate programs and their
> curriculums so you can get a sense of what types of skills you would be
> learning in one program vs. another. Best of luck!
>
> Alyssa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jan 
> Bailey
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 4:21 PM
> To: Human Services Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [humanser] Helpful masters degrees
>
> Try going to
> www.indeed.com
> then look up the kind of job you want in the area of the country where you
> want to work, and see what kind of qualifications they're looking for.
> Jan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ericka Short" <ericka.short at wi.rr.com>
> To: "Human Services Mailing List" <humanser at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 1:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [humanser] Helpful masters degrees
>
>
>> Good idea Serena!  I wasn't sure if it would be helpful, but I guess she
>> could pick either kids or adults and focus that way.  Counseling is only
>> a
>
>> part of social work and she might be better off having a variety of
>> skills. it's my understanding that  music therapy is more specific.  Like
>>
>> I said, no matter what you can't tgo wrongwith the suggestions.
>>
>> Ericka J. Short
>> 262-697-0510
>>
>> "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me". Philippians 4:13
>>
>> "No hand is too small or too big to do good in this world." EJ. Short
>>
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