Douglas Della Toffalo, Online Psychology Degree Can Lead To Top Jobs As Mental Health Services Increase

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Douglas Della Toffalo, Online Psychology Degree Can Lead To Top Jobs As
Mental Health Services Increase

(PRWEB) July 5, 2007 -- Recent discoveries that mental healthcare for
soldiers returning from battle is greatly inadequate have led to recognition
of the general shortage of qualified mental health professionals in the U.S.
This will result in thousands of new healthcare jobs for people with
advanced degrees in psychology and counseling. CareerSchoolDirectory.com, an
online resource for career education and training, recommends that anyone
considering going back to school consider an online psychology degree to
meet this increasing demand ().

 Getting one of these healthcare jobs will require career training and an
advanced degree. CareerSchoolDirectory.com links visitors with top online
schools offering master's degrees and doctorates. A psychologist is required
to have a doctorate, but a master's degree -- which can take as few as two
years to achieve -- is acceptable for many other mental health careers such
as counseling and social work. The advanced degree will probably include an
internship, and some counseling and healthcare jobs also require students to
pass a standardized exam and be licensed. More information on mental health
careers can be found at:

 "The military's mental health system has 'fallen significantly short' of
meeting the needs of troops and their families," according to USA Today
articles about the results of a year-long, Congressionally mandated task
force study. The study results are summarized as saying that more money and
people are needed immediately in nearly every area "to care for troops
suffering depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress symptoms and other
mental health problems."

 This forecast increase in military psychologists and counselors will likely
be mirrored in the private sector. For instance, BusinessWeek reports that
"ignoring employee depression can have a devastating impact on the
workplace," and suggests that business owners remove the stigma of having
depression and create an employee assistance program that offers counseling
to employees anonymously. According to CareerSchoolDirectory.com, the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that job opportunities for
psychologists will grow faster than the national general job-growth average
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