Mental Health Counselor Job Analysis Paper

In my search for a job analysis, I analyzed the career of a mental health counselor which is as close as a therapist that I could get due to the wide range of characteristics that O*NET cannot fit into one category. According to O*NET, as a mental health counselor one works with individuals and groups to promote the best mental and emotional health. One may help individuals deal with a wide range of issues like addictions, relationship problems, stress management, self-esteem and many other mental health issues. Mental health counselors create and assess client treatment plans to improve the mental health and emotional status of an individual, discuss client’s feelings and how a counselor can help a client outside of therapy and/or treatment.
The four individual differences that I will be assessing are the cognitive abilities as a mental health counselor, the personality traits, …show more content…
Would you rather be in a job that you hated or in a job that did not feel like a job? Each field of psychology, business or other any other field has occupational interest profiles where these profiles give a detailed explanation of individual jobs. Just like personality traits, why would one stay in a job that they did not feel comfortable or enjoy? Is it an individual’s interest to help another out face to face or is it an interest to stay be in a lab where you may work by oneself? In the mental health field, a counselor is 91% of the time in contact with another person. When I look at a mental health counselor and to interest, I believe it should be a very detailed and well thought out if an individual would rather work with individuals all of the time or just by oneself to discovering, selling, analyzing or whatever it may be that an individual may feel comfortable working. If an individual would work in a place one would not feel comfortable that would just effect their job