EMILY LARA

4th pd

marriage and family therapists

Training
You will need a masters degree equivalent study beyond the bachelors degree I can go to Austin
community college.
The tuition fee is 7380-9390. High school transcripts are required for freshman.
The total amount of students 43,315. 48% white, 28% Hispanic, 10% unknown, 8% African
American, 5% Asian, and 1% native American's. 59% under 25 years of age, and 41% is at least 25
years or older.

Tasks:
1

Abilities/skills/
knowledge
Work values
The Relationships Work Value is
associated with jobs where coworkers are friendly and workers are
able to be of service to others. This
Work Value is associated with jobs
where workers are not made to do
anything that goes against their sense
of right and wrong.

For this career you must be a

good speaker, have good
memory,

Ask questions that will help clients identify their feelings and
behaviors.
Counsel clients on concerns, such as
unsatisfactory relationships, divorce and separation, child rearing,
home management, and financial difficulties.
Encourage individuals and family members to develop and use
skills and strategies for confronting their problems in a constructive
manner.
Maintain case files that include activities, progress notes,
evaluations, and recommendations.
Collect information about clients, using techniques such as
testing, interviewing, discussion, and observation.
Develop and implement individualized treatment plans
addressing family relationship problems.
Determine whether clients should be counseled or referred to
other specialists in such fields as medicine, psychiatry, and legal
aid.
Confer with clients to develop plans for post treatment activities.
Confer with other counselors in order to analyze individual cases
and to coordinate counseling services.
Follow up on results of counseling programs and clients'
adjustments to determine effectiveness of programs.
Provide instructions to clients on how to obtain help with legal,
financial, and other personal issues.
Gather information from doctors, schools, social workers, juvenile
counselors, law enforcement personnel, and others to make
recommendations to courts for resolution of child custody or
visitation disputes.
Provide public education and consultation to other professionals
or groups regarding counseling services, issues, and methods.
Develop and implement individualized treatment plans to
address family relationship problems, destructive patterns of
behavior, and other personal issues.
Confer with other counselors, doctors, and professionals in order
to analyze individual cases and to coordinate counseling services.
Supervise other counselors, social service staff, and assistants.
Provide family counseling and treatment services to inmates
participating in substance abuse programs.
Write evaluations of parents and children for use by courts
deciding divorce and custody cases, testifying in court if
necessary.

Labor market
This estimate is the result of
calculating the projected number
of job openings due to growth and
replacement demand from 2010
through 2020, and dividing the
total by ten. This data item is taken
from the Texas Workforce
Commission/Labor Market and
Career Information (TWC/LMCI)
projections program. The annual
average represents an
interpolation between the base
year (2010) and the terminal year
(2020), and therefore appears as a
straight-line projection. In actuality
there may be cyclical demand
during the projection period
causing greater or fewer job
openings in any intervening year.

Average job opening 65

76.1% of females' working as

this career

Wages hourly: 21.99

Turnover: very low