Where a mental health social worker can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a mental health social worker already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Mental health social workers assist and provide counselling to people with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems. They focus on providing personalised support to cases and monitor the recovery process of their clients by providing therapy, crisis intervention, client advocacy and education. Mental health social workers may contribute to mental health services improvement and mental health outcomes for citizens.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 76%
- Destinations
- 5each with a full record
- Within reach
- 5difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 81required or supplementary
Table 1 · Within reach
- education welfare officer 76% covered · difficulty 41.9
- mental health support worker 74% covered · difficulty 44.2
- residential home young people care worker 73% covered · difficulty 45.2
- residential home older adult care worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.5
- adult community care worker 72% covered · difficulty 45.8
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mental health social worker is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a mental health social worker already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.