From social counsellor to sexual violence counsellor
42 of the 53 essential skills of a sexual violence counsellor are already essential for a social counsellor — about 79% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from social counsellor in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 42
- skills carry over
- 11
- would be new
- 79%
- of the target job covered
- 53
- essential skills of a sexual violence counsellor
What a sexual violence counsellor does
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.
What carries over
42 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- 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
- 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 social counselling
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- sexual disorders
- social justice
- social sciences
and 2 more
What would be new
11 skillsEssential for a sexual violence counsellor and not for a social counsellor. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- adolescent psychological development
- assess the development of youth
- facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- psychological theories
- psychology
- screen clients
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- support the positiveness of youths
- support young victims of sexual assault
- work on the effects of abuse
Other moves from social counsellor
2 roles- bereavement counsellor41 skills in common
- family planning counsellor41 skills in common
← social counsellorsexual violence counsellor →The other way round
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a sexual violence counsellor?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.