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Competences — social counsellor

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5727b567-993d-4d41-a13d-81a6af1a9a8e).

Essential

  • accept own accountability (skill/competence)
  • apply quality standards in social services (skill/competence)
  • apply socially just working principles (skill/competence)
  • assess social service users' situation (skill/competence)
  • behavioural therapy (knowledge)
  • build helping relationship with social service users (skill/competence)
  • client-centred counselling (knowledge)
  • clinical social work (knowledge)
  • cognitive behavioural therapy (knowledge)
  • communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields (skill/competence)
  • communicate with social service users (skill/competence)
  • cooperate at inter-professional level (skill/competence)
  • counselling methods (knowledge)
  • deliver social services in diverse cultural communities (skill/competence)
  • demonstrate leadership in social service cases (skill/competence)
  • determine child welfare (skill/competence)
  • encourage counselled clients to examine themselves (skill/competence)
  • follow health and safety precautions in social care practices (skill/competence)
  • have emotional intelligence (skill/competence)
  • help clients make decisions during counselling sessions (skill/competence)
  • human psychological development (knowledge)
  • legal requirements in the social sector (knowledge)
  • listen actively (skill/competence)
  • maintain a non-emotional involvement (skill/competence)
  • maintain records of work with service users (skill/competence)
  • maintain the trust of service users (skill/competence)
  • manage social crisis (skill/competence)
  • manage stress in the work place (skill/competence)
  • organise relapse prevention (skill/competence)
  • perform therapy sessions (skill/competence)
  • promote human rights (skill/competence)
  • promote inclusion (skill/competence)
  • promote social change (skill/competence)
  • provide social counselling (skill/competence)
  • refer social service users (skill/competence)
  • reflexion (knowledge)
  • relate empathetically (skill/competence)
  • report on social development (skill/competence)
  • respond to individuals' extreme emotions (skill/competence)
  • sexual disorders (knowledge)
  • social justice (knowledge)
  • social sciences (knowledge)
  • supervision of persons (knowledge)
  • undertake continuous professional development in social work (skill/competence)
  • use psychoeducation (skill/competence)

Optional

  • accounting techniques (knowledge)
  • address gender-related issues in family planning counselling (skill/competence)
  • administer appointments (skill/competence)
  • adolescent psychological development (knowledge)
  • advise on family planning (skill/competence)
  • advise on mental health (skill/competence)
  • advise on pregnancy (skill/competence)
  • anger management (knowledge)
  • apply foreign languages in social services (skill/competence)
  • assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions (skill/competence)
  • assess the development of youth (skill/competence)
  • carry out psychiatric assessment of child (skill/competence)
  • communicate by use of interpretation services (skill/competence)
  • communicate with youth (skill/competence)
  • cooperate with professionals (skill/competence)
  • counsel patient on family concerns (skill/competence)
  • dependency on drugs (knowledge)
  • develop patient treatment strategies (skill/competence)
  • empower individuals, families and groups (skill/competence)
  • facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault (skill/competence)
  • family therapy (knowledge)
  • help clients cope with grief (skill/competence)
  • identify mental health issues (skill/competence)
  • inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse (skill/competence)
  • movement techniques (knowledge)
  • peer group methods (knowledge)
  • pharmacology (knowledge)
  • plan youth activities (skill/competence)
  • practice gestalt therapy (skill/competence)
  • prepare youths for adulthood (skill/competence)
  • promote the safeguarding of young people (skill/competence)
  • provide anger management counselling (skill/competence)
  • provide counselling on abortion (skill/competence)
  • provide education on family life (skill/competence)
  • psychological counselling methods (knowledge)
  • psychological theories (knowledge)
  • psychology (knowledge)
  • relaxation techniques (knowledge)
  • reproductive health (knowledge)
  • sex education (knowledge)
  • social development (knowledge)
  • sophrology (knowledge)
  • stages of bereavement (knowledge)
  • strategies for handling cases of sexual assault (knowledge)
  • support the positiveness of youths (skill/competence)
  • support traumatised children (skill/competence)
  • support young victims of sexual assault (skill/competence)
  • types of psychotherapy sessions (knowledge)
  • use motivational incentives in addiction counselling (skill/competence)
  • work on the effects of abuse (skill/competence)