How to take the children's mental health certificate test

At present, there is no uniformly certified "Children's Mental Health Certificate" in the national vocational qualification catalog. All certificates with this name on the market are essentially training qualification certificates issued by various industry associations and training institutions. They have no statutory legal validity. The propaganda that "you can get a job with a certificate after taking the exam and it is universal across the country" is basically cutting leeks.

Teacher Zhang, who had been exposed to a community daycare before, spent 2980 to sign up for an online certificate examination class last year. It was claimed that after taking the examination, she would be able to accept sideline business orders for children's psychological counseling. The organization also promised to provide recommended clients. Once the certificate was obtained, let alone accepting orders, she went to apply for a psychological specialist in a private kindergarten. People directly said that they would only recognize certificates issued by the National Health Commission or leading institutions in the psychology industry. This certificate did not even meet the interview threshold. When I went back to find the clients promised by the agency, they had already gone away and couldn't be contacted.

Of course, this does not mean that all such certificates are completely worthless. Many kindergartens and childcare institutions will require front-line teachers to take such training certificates as a reference for assessment of job skill improvement. If your unit clearly recognizes that a certain type of certificate can be counted as a professional title and salary increase, then according to the unit Just take the test. If you just want to supplement knowledge related to child psychology, choose a course that has practical content, such as practical modules such as child psychological assessment, parent-child communication skills, and sandbox game guidance. Even if the certificate is just a certificate of study, it is not a loss if you can learn the skills.

If you want to seriously delve into children's psychology, don't waste money on this kind of "children's mental health certificate", which can easily lead to pitfalls. If you want to work in the health system, you should take the psychotherapist exam. This is a health professional technical qualification examination organized by the National Health Commission. Obtaining a formal professional title certificate has the highest professional recognition. If you have a non-medical background, you can first take the basic training certificate for psychological counselors that is highly recognized in the industry, and then slowly accumulate case time and participate in the system's special supervision of children's psychology. This path is much more stable.

Nowadays, there is a lot of controversy in the industry about this kind of non-unified examination training certificates. Some people think that the threshold for such certificates is too low, a mixed bag of good and bad, and they are purely a tool for institutions to make money. Others think that for novices who have no foundation at all and just enter the industry, having a training certificate can at least prove that they have learned the system. It is better to read relevant content than to talk in vain. In the final analysis, the core depends on your skills. This thing is like the graduation certificate issued to you by a cooking training class. It cannot be used as a formal chef certificate. If you really want to be employed, people will still see whether you can cook well or not. The certificate has always been an add-on.