sexual violence counsellor
Sexual violence counsellors provide support services, crisis care services and counselling to women and adolescents who have been directly or indirectly exposed to sexual assault and/or rape. They inform victims of the relevant legal procedures and protective services maintaining client confidentiality. They also address problematic sexualized behaviours of children.
Also called: victim care worker, sexual violence victim advocate, sexual assault counsellor, victim support worker, sexual violence support worker, domestic violence counsellor, victim care unit worker, victim care unit counsellor
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- essential skills
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- optional skills
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- related roles
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Where you can go from here
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Essential skills
53- accept own accountability
- adolescent psychological development
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- assess the development of youth
- behavioural therapy
- build helping relationship with social service users
- client-centred counselling
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have emotional intelligence
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- human psychological development
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- promote human rights
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- screen clients
- sexual disorders
- social justice
- social sciences
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- supervision of persons
- support the positiveness of youths
- support young victims of sexual assault
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work on the effects of abuse
Optional skills
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