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3. Family Therapists:
Family therapists can work in hospitals, they can also set up their own business, or can be a part of various treatment programs, can work in different government agencies etc. The working hours of family therapists are very flexible as depends on the number of patients they attend in a day. To be a family therapist, he or she needs to be very well versed in handling stressful situations of their patients by helping them with good advices. They need to have the talent of bringing back the patient to normal condition by helping him or her to balance their physical and emotional tensions. To bring back a patient for a normal situation, it is not just enough for the family therapist just to meet the concerned patients worries. He or she has to meet the patients’ entire family and figure out the problem and find a permanent solution for the problem. So, as it takes a lot of time to help a patient come out of their stress level, even a therapist must support the patient till he or she comes to a normal condition.
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So, as the responsibility of a family therapist is very large, he or she will be expecting for a good pay, but he or she must adjust to a lower pay if they are at the starting level of their practice. If they get experienced, after some years they can open up their own business as a family therapist.