Social counsellor
Code 2635.1
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.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- social sciences
- human psychological development
- legal requirements in the social sector
- social justice
- counselling methods
- client-centred counselling
- reflexion
- supervision of persons
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- behavioural therapy
Skills and competences
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- accept own accountability
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- 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 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
- 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
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
- 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