Answer by CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGIST
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Answer by Bob F
Well first things first. Formal education and experience.
No place will hire based upon just an interest in the field. It would be nice, but you know as well as I that it wont happen like that. Find a good school in your area that has a good path to a degree. And at the same time, going through it more and more, you might find it's not for you. Or you might find a different area of mental health is the one for you. Keep your work through the home and listen to those who are there for actually helping others (and not for the paycheck). A textbook is one thing, but it will never EVER beat life experience and learning from others.
Answer by ®PsychologyGuy
This is not as easy as you think. To work in a hospital will require as a psychologist will require that you get a doctorate from an APA accredited school AND go to and APA accredited internship. It is very difficult since there is a huge flood of people going into the field right now. This last round of internships had 4000 applicants for 3000 sites, of which only a fraction are APA accredited. That 1000 surplus (of which I'm one) will be in next years pool, so even if nothing changes we are talking 5000 applicants for 3000 sites, but in reality classes have been getting larger every year, so we are actually looking at about 6000 applicants for 3000 sites. So going into mental health is becoming harder and harder every year.
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