From drug and alcohol addiction counsellor to family planning counsellor
43 of the 50 essential skills of a family planning counsellor are already essential for a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor — about 86% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 43
- skills carry over
- 7
- would be new
- 86%
- of the target job covered
- 50
- essential skills of a family planning counsellor
What a family planning counsellor does
Family planning counsellors provide support and counselling to adults and adolescents on issues such as reproduction, contraceptive methods, pregnancy or termination of pregnancy, in compliance with the legislation and practices. They also provide information about maintaining optimum health practices, sexual disease prevention and treatment recommendation referrals, working in collaboration with the professional doctors.
What carries over
43 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- social justice
and 3 more
What would be new
7 skillsEssential for a family planning counsellor and not for a drug and alcohol addiction counsellor. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
2 roles- sexual violence counsellor47 skills in common
- bereavement counsellor43 skills in common
← drug and alcohol addiction counsellorfamily planning counsellor →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a family planning counsellor?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.