Special Care Counselling is my program in Cegep. This article can be useful for students or futur students who are interested to help people.
"The Special Care Counsellor plays a key role notably in the field of mental health and in human relations."
Special Care Counsellors are promoting the rehabilitation of a person in need. They participate in the social integration process.
On a typical day, Special Care Counsellors do intervention with diverse clients like people who are the most vulnerable.
Special Care Counsellors work in several places. They can work in elementary school, High School, kindergarten, crisis center, rehabilitation center, women shelter, CHSLD, hospital, health care place, youth center, community organization, correctional facilities and institutional places.
You can become a Special Care Counsellor by studying in the Special Care Counselling program in Cegep.
In Quebec, Special Care Counsellors make in average an annual salary of $43,718 to $48,037.
Special Care Counsellors need additional training of CPR and First Aid Certification.
The dangers of being a Special Care Counsellor are a risk of physical injury during aggressive outbursts, trauma from dealing with people in crises and burnout from emotional exhaustion.
There are not many chances that Special Care Counsellors will be replaced by robots soon. Because to be a Special Care Counsellor it needs empathy, something that human can do and not robots.
Special Care Counsellors retire around 60 and 65 years old.
I'm in my first year of the program of Special Care Counsellor. I hope to become an art therapist. I would really like to help people including arts in their life as a therapeutic thing. After the Cegep, I wish to be able to go to university in psychology then to go study art-therapy.
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