social counsellor
Social counsellors provide support and guidance to individuals in the social work area, to help them solve specific problems in their personal life. It involves addressing personal and relationship issues, dealing with inner conflicts, crisis moments such as depression and addiction, in an attempt to empower individuals to achieve change and improve their life quality.
Also called: social psychologist, relationship advisor, crisis counsellor, rehabilitation support counsellor, youth counseller, social therapist, crisis intervention counsellor, personal counsellor
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- essential skills
- 50
- optional skills
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- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
- sexual violence counsellorWhat changes?42 skills in common
- bereavement counsellorWhat changes?41 skills in common
- drug and alcohol addiction counsellor41 skills in common
- family planning counsellorWhat changes?41 skills in common
- marriage counsellor41 skills in common
- consultant social worker27 skills in common
- hospital social worker26 skills in common
- social work supervisor26 skills in common
Essential skills
45- accept own accountability
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- behavioural therapy
- build helping relationship with social service users
- client-centred counselling
- clinical social work
- 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
- determine child welfare
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- 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
- provide social counselling
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- sexual disorders
- social justice
- social sciences
- supervision of persons
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- use psychoeducation
Optional skills
50- accounting techniques
- address gender-related issues in family planning counselling
- administer appointments
- adolescent psychological development
- advise on family planning
- advise on mental health
- advise on pregnancy
- anger management
- apply foreign languages in social services
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assess the development of youth
- carry out psychiatric assessment of child
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- communicate with youth
- cooperate with professionals
- counsel patient on family concerns
- dependency on drugs
- develop patient treatment strategies
- empower individuals, families and groups
- facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault
- family therapy
- help clients cope with grief
- identify mental health issues
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
- movement techniques
- peer group methods
- pharmacology
- plan youth activities
- practice gestalt therapy
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide anger management counselling
- provide counselling on abortion
- provide education on family life
- psychological counselling methods
- psychological theories
- psychology
- relaxation techniques
- reproductive health
- sex education
- social development
- sophrology
- stages of bereavement
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- support young victims of sexual assault
- types of psychotherapy sessions
- use motivational incentives in addiction counselling
- work on the effects of abuse
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