family planning counsellor
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.
Also called: family planning advisor, sexual health lead, pregnancy advisor, family planning counselor, reproductive health advisor, family planning clinic advisor, sexual health advisor, family planning social counsellor
- 50
- essential skills
- 3
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Essential skills
50- accept own accountability
- address gender-related issues in family planning counselling
- advise on family planning
- advise on pregnancy
- 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 counselling on abortion
- provide education on family life
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- reproductive health
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- sex education
- social justice
- social sciences
- supervision of persons
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
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