Working in Mental Health

Does anyone do this? Could you provide experiences, opinions, general thoughts...or indeed, are there any other people on here wishing to pursue this type of employment and/or work experience....???

Reply 1

El Scotto

all depends on what you want to do in mental health. Narrow it down for me and i'll give you an answer.

Reply 2

fundamentally

TomandJerry

Does anyone do this? Could you provide experiences, opinions, general thoughts...or indeed, are there any other people on here wishing to pursue this type of employment and/or work experience....???

Working as
1. a psychiatrist or
2. a clinical psychologist
is ok.

For the first option you have to do medicine at university and then specialise in psych.
This takes around 10 to 12 years.

For the second option you do psychology at university then do a masters or a PhD in Clinical Psych with a number of clinical postings. Plus a year or two working in hospitals to get experience This takes around 6 to 8 years.
These are both worthwhile careers and appear to be personally, professionally and financially reasonably rewarding.

On the other hand, you would work as just a carer or a psych nurse. That is unspeakably horrible.
The working conditions are awful, the staff are demoralised due to lack of funding and lack of support. And you deal with the most disturbed mental patients since the system is too overstretched to help the less disturbed. That is why so many of the staff doing this are imported from poor nations like Jamaica or the Phillipines.

Reply 3

713

if you wanted to work as carer or psych nurse you could try to get into child mental health. to me it seems like you get less 'really' disturbed people.

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