Psychiatric Aide – Technician

Duties and responsibilities: Psychiatric aides and technicians help care for mentally ill, disabled, or infirm people who are confined to hospitals, mental facilities, and residential care facilities they work under the supervision of mental health professionals or nurses. They often work in hospitals, social service centers, crisis, centers, schools and substance abuse facilities. Psychiatric technicians usually have more formal training and responsibilities and aides.

Average Salary: $12,000 - $24,000

Educational Requirements: Psychiatric aides need not always have a high school diploma or formal training; however most employers prefer that they do.

Psychiatric technicians need a high school diploma and should have taken courses in English and science. A short training course or previous job experience as a psychiatric aide is often also required.

Reflection: would you like to be one? Why or why not? No because it doesn't seem interesting.