Occupation Atlassocial counsellor
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5727b567-993d-4d41-a13d-81a6af1a9a8e
social counsellor
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.
Compare with another occupationCompare with sexual violence counsellor
Job Zone
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
SIASocial · Investigative · Artistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.22
- I Investigative5.32
- A Artistic3.58
- C Conventional2.90
- E Enterprising1.78
- R Realistic1.49
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Marriage and Family Therapists (21-1013.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (45)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- 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
- clinical social work
- 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
- determine child welfare
- 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
- supervision of persons
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- use psychoeducation
Optional (50)
- accounting techniques
- address gender-related issues in family planning counselling
- administer appointments
- adolescent psychological development
- advise on family planning
- advise on mental health
- advise on pregnancy
- anger management
- apply foreign languages in social services
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions
- assess the development of youth
- carry out psychiatric assessment of child
- communicate by use of interpretation services
- communicate with youth
- cooperate with professionals
- counsel patient on family concerns
- dependency on drugs
- develop patient treatment strategies
- empower individuals, families and groups
- facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault
- family therapy
- help clients cope with grief
- identify mental health issues
- inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse
- movement techniques
- peer group methods
- pharmacology
- plan youth activities
- practice gestalt therapy
- prepare youths for adulthood
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide anger management counselling
- provide counselling on abortion
- provide education on family life
- psychological counselling methods
- psychological theories
- psychology
- relaxation techniques
- reproductive health
- sex education
- social development
- sophrology
- stages of bereavement
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- support the positiveness of youths
- support traumatised children
- support young victims of sexual assault
- types of psychotherapy sessions
- use motivational incentives in addiction counselling
- work on the effects of abuse
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 45 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
sexual violence counsellor
42 shared · 11 more of its ownmaintain a non-emotional involvement, respond to individuals' extreme emotions, encourage counselled clients to examine themselves, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
ESCO · Compare
bereavement counsellor
41 shared · 4 more of its ownmaintain a non-emotional involvement, respond to individuals' extreme emotions, encourage counselled clients to examine themselves, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
ESCO · Compare
marriage counsellor
41 shared · 6 more of its ownmaintain a non-emotional involvement, respond to individuals' extreme emotions, encourage counselled clients to examine themselves, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
ESCO · Compare
family planning counsellor
41 shared · 9 more of its ownmaintain a non-emotional involvement, respond to individuals' extreme emotions, encourage counselled clients to examine themselves, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
ESCO · Compare
drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
41 shared · 10 more of its ownmaintain a non-emotional involvement, respond to individuals' extreme emotions, encourage counselled clients to examine themselves, help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
ESCO · Compare
consultant social worker
27 shared · 45 more of its ownclient-centred counselling, counselling methods, refer social service users, cooperate at inter-professional level
ESCO · Compare
crisis situation social worker
26 shared · 37 more of its ownclinical social work, refer social service users, cooperate at inter-professional level, manage stress in the work place
ESCO · Compare
social work supervisor
26 shared · 37 more of its ownsupervision of persons, refer social service users, cooperate at inter-professional level, manage stress in the work place
ESCO · Compare
Use this in your own job architecture
BlissPoint Organization Viewer can link a role directly to this occupation and suggest these skills as that role's starting requirements.
This page includes information from the O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. ESCO occupations and skills are from the European Commission's ESCO classification, and the occupation crosswalk is the official ESCO–O*NET mapping by the ESCO Secretariat with USDOL/ETA. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. BlissPoint Analytics has modified all or some of this information: skill, task and descriptor ratings are rounded to one decimal, and ESCO occupations show Job Zone and interests copied from a crosswalked O*NET occupation. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications.