Occupations Expanded: Mental Health

Occupations Expanded: Mental Health adds new mental health-focused occupations to Paralives, designed to fit the tone, structure, and flavor of the vanilla occupations. This mod expands several workplaces with new career paths related to counseling, therapy, psychology, social work and mental health administration. Whether your Para wants to work in a clinic, hospital, or school setting, this mod gives them new ways to build a career helping others. What This Mod Adds: New Domain: All new mental health occupations can now be found under their own custom domain banner. Currently, this domain uses the Service icon because I have not figured out how to import custom icons yet, if that is possible. New Occupations: Clinic: - Intake Specialist - Level 1 - Mental Health Clinician - Level 2 - Mental Health Supervisor - Level 3 - Child Psychologist - Level 3 - Director of Mental Health - Level 4 Hospital: - Case Manager - Level 1 - Intake Specialist - Level 1 - Social Worker - Level 2 - Mental Health Clinician - Level 2 - Mental Health Supervisor - Level 3 - Child Psychologist - Level 3 - Director of Mental Health - Level 4 Elementary School: - School Counselor - Level 2 High School: - School Counselor - Level 2 Career Perks: This update adds 4 Career Perks that you can unlock as your Para progresses through the new mental health careers. Breakthrough with Client: At the end of the workday, your Para has a random chance of receiving +1, +3, or +5 Happiness. Group Clinical Supervision: At the end of the workday, your Para gains +1 coworker relationship level with a random coworker. Burnout: This is an instant event that gives your Para +2 Stressed. Counseling Training: This event allows your Para to slowly learn the Counseling skill throughout the workday. New Skills: This mod also adds two new skills connected to the mental health career paths. Counseling (Previously Therapy): The Counseling skill is learned while learning about science. You can also take the Occupation Unlockable: Counseling Training so that your Para can learn this skill slowly while working. Psychology: The Psychology skill can be developed by learning about psychology on the computer or reading a psychology book. This skill is useful for Paras pursuing more advanced mental health and psychology-related roles. Changelog 5-26-26 New Additions: - Added a new Mental Health domain for the new occupations. - Added 4 custom occupation unlockable events: 1. Breakthrough with Client 2.Group Clinical Supervision 3. Burnout 4. Counseling Training Changes: - Psychology is now properly implemented Paras can now learn Psychology by reading books or using the computer. - Therapy has been renamed to Counseling. - Counseling is now properly implemented. Counseling can be learned by developing the Science skill or learned passively through the Counseling Training occupation unlockable. Future Plans: I am still exploring the Paralives modding tools but future updates may include: - Custom career outfits - Career-specific dialogue options or actions - Additional mental health-related careers - Goals and Wants Compatibility: This mod should be compatible with most other mods unless they use the exact same GUID which is highly unlikely. Disclaimer: I do not know how this update will affect existing save games. Mods can and will break your games, so always keep a backup save before installing or updating mods. I tested this update by loading into an existing game I was playing and did not notice any issues, but results may vary. Feedback & Bugs: Please post any feedback, suggestions, or bugs in the comments.