sexual violence counsellor
Code 2635.1.5
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- social sciences
- adolescent psychological development
- human psychological development
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- legal requirements in the social sector
- social justice
- counselling methods
- psychology
- client-centred counselling
- reflexion
- supervision of persons
- psychological theories
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- behavioural therapy
Skills and competences
- Garantizar la confidencialidad de los pacientes
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault
- accept own accountability
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- support the positiveness of youths
- communicate with social service users
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- refer social service users
- build helping relationship with social service users
- assess the development of youth
- assess social service users' situation
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- manage social crisis
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- support young victims of sexual assault
- listen actively
- organise relapse prevention
- promote social change
- promote inclusion
- perform therapy sessions
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have emotional intelligence
- work on the effects of abuse
Transversal competences
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- manage stress in the work place
- report on social development
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- promote human rights
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- provide social counselling
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- relate empathetically
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences