marriage counsellor
Marriage counsellors support and guide couples and families that are going through crises such as depression, substance abuse and relationship problems. They help improving their communication by providing group or individual therapy.
Also called: relationship coach, family counsellor, marriage guidance worker, marriage and family counsellor, marital crisis counsellor, couples counsellor, marriage counselor, marriage guidance counsellor
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- essential skills
- 11
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
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Where you can go from here
8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- family planning counsellorWhat changes?43 skills in common
- sexual violence counsellor43 skills in common
- social counsellor41 skills in common
- consultant social worker27 skills in common
- community social worker26 skills in common
- social work supervisor26 skills in common
Essential skills
47- 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
- counsel patient on family concerns
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- empower individuals, families and groups
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- family therapy
- 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
- social sciences
- supervision of persons
- types of psychotherapy sessions
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
Optional skills
11- adolescent psychological development
- advise on mental health
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- clinical social work
- dependency on drugs
- develop patient treatment strategies
- help clients cope with grief
- identify mental health issues
- provide education on family life
- stages of bereavement
- support the positiveness of youths
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