Designed to provide you with information as well as a support group, the workshop covers topics ranging from comparison of the various licenses and financial realities to multicultural issues and theoretical orientations. Group discussions help you to examine the hopes, fears, motivations, fantasies, myths, and realities of the profession. You also complete and discuss a personal inventory designed to aid your self-assessment for a career in mental health. A directory of Bay Area graduate schools with programs in counseling, psychology, and social work will be available for purchase at the first meeting. Registered students will be mailed reading and information about the directory one week before each course.
Enrollment is limited.
She has taught this course for more than 14 years and is an adjunct faculty member in the Graduate Psychology Department at New College of California in San Francisco. A licensed clinical social worker and a licensed psychologist answer questions regarding their professions. Other guests will address family and child therapy and multicultural considerations.