What kind of schooling is required to be a social worker?
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In order to be licensed by the state you work in, you'll have to have a master's degree (in social work). This means you will enter a graduate school once you've finished four years of college. In college, you might want to study or major in psych, soc, or health administration. Knowing how the government works and about tax laws could help because a social worker often has to wade through all kinds of insurance and government paperwork that clients receive. Courses toward being a lawyer would help too.\n\nYou'll be able to get into child protection services, prevention of elder abuse, teaching, counseling, or working in schools. Best wishes!
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AS degree must be an Associates Degree which generally takes two years to complete.\nBA is a Bachelor of Arts Degree and would generally take four years to complete.  A BS Degree is a Bachelor of Science degree which is the same as a BA except you take different courses such as two years of a foreign language instead of a statistics class.\n\nA Masters degree is obtained once you receive a BA or BS in a subject such as English, Political Science, Biology, Social Science, Psychology, etc.  A Masters Degree generally takes two years to complete, during which you do research on a topic of interest to you for presentation.\n\nPhD. requires another two plus years and involves writing a doctoral dissertation and presenting it to the university for review and certification.  I am sure there are many more requirements that I am unaware of as I only recently received my BS in Social Science myself.
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If your school has a social work degree, look into that.  For a more general education, think about studying sociology or psychology.  If your school offers an education degree, look into what courses are offered there.\n\nYou might be able to combine courses you like in an independent major - talk with your academic advisor.\n\nAND you should definitely volunteer with a social services agency, especially one that deals with disadvantaged youth.\n\nIt's OK to have these questions at 20 years old!  Just explore and you'll find some answers.
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Helping abused kids is a very noble profession - and it's great that you want to go into that field. There is nothing better than helping to protect a kid. \n\nMost child protective services jobs require at least a 2 year college degree and the social workers jobs require at least bachelors degree (and they will expect you to enroll in a masters degree program and complete it within at least 5 years of hire)\n\nGood luck
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College - minimum Master's degree with 18 hours of graduate study in office admin or related study.\n\nHigh School - Bachelor's degree and teaching certificate if public school and no certificate if private school.
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It is not clear to me whether you are looking for a program that includes all of these different disciplines or a separate program in each individual discipline.  I have never heard of an MSW program that offers a combined degree in a group of disciplines, even if they are related.  Social work schools offer an MSW, regardless of whether you concentrate in casework or group work.  As for schools, I would think that if you live in Massachusetts you have a wealth of riches, because there are so many colleges and universities in Boston.  Then there is Smith College, which has a world famous School of Social Work.  But if you are looking for a program that combines all of these disciplines, I have to stop here because as I already said I have never heard of one (but that doesn't mean that none exists).  Happy hunting.
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You would most likely need a psychology or sociology degree with some experience working with children & family services.  Your work experience would probably qualify you more than the actual degree area in which you majored.
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I was interested in the same thing. I got a bachelor's degree in social work and a master's degree in social work with a concentration in mental illness and chemical dependency.\n\nUniversities will have courses at the undergrad level about substance abuse. Take those. For a social work degree you also have to do at least one internship. I did all of mine in agencies that treated substance abusers or dual diagnosis patients. I specifically went to a grad program that offered this specialization.\n\nThe large majority of persons I worked with (in therapudic roles) were social workers, NOT psychologists. This was true at every agency I worked or interned for (6 agencies)
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Sometimes a person may have a 2 year degree from a community college that is an applied science degree and if they work on their bs degree, they will receive a bs in applied science, because they already had a 2 year degree but not the required 2 years of general education courses one has to have.  A person who does not have an applied science degree in social scienes would receive a bs in social sciences, while a person who does have an applied science degree in social sciences would receive a bs of applied science in social sciences.
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There are many organizations that hire social workers.\n\nSchools, support groups, community clinics, welfare offices, aid to immigrants.\n\nProbably many more too.  Good Luck!
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Check out the link below.  Common industries for people with Education degrees include educational publishing, corporate training and counseling.  You might want to consider adult education as well (it's nice to teach people who are in class voluntarily).
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You will have to get at least a Bachelors Degree in social work before you can do it.  in the mean time, take social science classes in school, sociology, psychology, etc. you can also do volunteer work which will look really good on you in the long run.  things like mentoring children, crisis hotlines, disaster relief, shelters, etc.  That's my major as well and I wished I had done more volunteer work in the past.  Good luck!!!!
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In my view a Social worker is very much the same as a teacher in the sense that a Social worker is a Social pedagogist or Social Educator and a teacher is a pedagogist or an educator. Each have a role in society to educate and advance the individual towards taking responsibility and making choices in life with the goal of achieving their individual aspirations. \n\nAs to which profession would be the best for you is a difficult question. Social work is tough regarding Child welfare. The children you will be involved with will need someone who can stand by them when no-one else will and listen to their stories that will make you glad that it was not one of you own children. However your role would still be to educate (life coping skills) the child towards understanding and dealing with their situation until the are able to return home or another safe environment and hence continue school. \n\nTeaching on the other hand teaches children the things they need to know to live in the modern world and gives them tools for coping and continuing with their educational life until the go to work and to contribute positively to society. \n\nBetween the two the are both demanding, but also fulfilling however the wages are very bad with both.
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Having a bachelor's degree in psychology will enable an applicant to work as an assistant to other ... Potential may be strongest for school psychologists. ...\nwww.careeroverview.com/psychology-careers.html
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It depends mainly on two things: what kind of social worker are they, and what are the licensing requirements in your locality. If you're talking about a licensed clinical social worker in a locality that regulates such titles, then they're independent mental health professionals with the training, experience, and (hopefully) ability to diagnose and treat mental disorders. \n\nOther than licensed clinical social workers, however, social workers have a huge variety of roles and what they do and what expectations they're expected to live up to vary depending on where they work.
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It just depends on what type of counselor you are talking about. By counselor you mean, mental health worker, who does basic mental health work like paper work and teaching behavioral modification all you need is a bachelor in psychology or another behavioral science field. I've known people to do it with other degrees also however those are the preferable degrees. Most places expect you to have some type of experience also. \n\nHowever, if you mean a therapist, doing therapy, you need a masters degree in counseling or Social work. \n\nBy the way, if you are thinking about doing this career, you need to know you will not make a lot of money especially at the bachelors level. The behavioral science field is one of the lowest paid fields. Most jobs that require a psychology type degree start out around 22 to 25 thousand a year... sad for a bachelors degree. So basically, you better love what you are doing. For a masters level counselor you dont make all that much either unless you open up a private practice after you get your LPC.\n\nGood luck, it is a very demanding field with little to no rewards. Financial rewards are nonexsistant and emotional rewards are far and few in between.\n\nCounselorDan
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You can study many things about social work for free on the net, but you will not get college credit for it.  Also you get what you pay for.  Be wary of Free anything.