The characteristics of psychological counseling include beneficial, interactive, psychological and gradual.
1, helpful
Both sides of psychological counseling, namely visitors and consultants (psychologists), have different counseling motives. The motivation of visitors is to seek help, and the motivation of counselors (psychologists) is to help. Psychological counseling is not a simple discussion, but a psychological counselor helps visitors solve their psychological development or adaptation problems through discussion and other means.
The significance of help is: relieving the psychological pressure of visitors; Change tourists' wrong cognitive concept; Guide visitors to master self-adjustment methods; Help visitors re-establish social adaptive behavior; Promote visitors to know themselves better; Encourage tourists to explore and make use of potential positive factors.
2. Interaction
Visitors to psychological counseling and counselors (psychologists) are two-way communication and interactive. That is to say, the visitor sends out information "stimulus", and the counselor makes a speech and behavior "response". At the same time, this response acts as a feedback information "stimulus" to the visitor, making him further send out information to stimulate the "response".
This requires the two sides to establish a natural, harmonious and trusting benign interactive relationship, so that visitors can freely express their feelings and come clean about the problem of asking for help. If both sides are suspicious and wary of each other, it will be difficult to achieve the purpose of psychological counseling.
3. Psychology
Psychological counseling is limited to psychological problems. The scope of seeking help and assistance is the problems or difficulties in development or adaptation, and the means to solve psychological problems is to use special psychological methods. Although most psychological problems are directly caused by life events, if the focus of help and help is on how to solve specific life events, it will inevitably deviate from the original intention of psychological counseling.
4. gradualism
It is unrealistic to try to completely solve development problems or adapt to difficulties through a psychological consultation. This is not only because these development problems or adaptation difficulties are the result of long-term psychological and social factors, but also because the psychological and social factors themselves are extremely complicated.
Although the visitor's mood for help is urgent and he hopes to solve the problem at once, the counselor (psychologist) can't hope to solve it once and for all, but should inspire the visitor step by step and make demands step by step, so that he can gradually achieve greater success on the basis of lower-level success and finally solve the expected problems or difficulties.
The process of applying for the psychological counselor exam is as follows:
First, the conditions for applying for the psychological counselor's certificate
To register as a psychological counselor, you need to meet one of the following conditions:
1, with a nationally recognized college degree or above;
2. Have a junior title or above in psychology, medicine and education;
3. Students who are in school one year before graduation from junior college or undergraduate course have student ID cards or can issue school certificates.
Meet any of the above three conditions, you can apply for a psychological counselor. The entrance examination threshold for psychological counselors is relatively low, and there are no clear professional restrictions.
Second, how do psychological counselors pass the exam?
(a) meet the requirements of the examination for psychological counselors;
(2) Enroll in courses with authorized training institutions and meet the corresponding standards;
(3) Training institutions uniformly register candidates and print admission tickets for successful candidates within the specified time;
(four) in the national unified examination time to participate in the designated examination, the results can be qualified to obtain a certificate.
(5) The examination of psychological counselors adopts computerized examination method, and the examination questions are extracted from many question banks. As long as the test score reaches 60 or above, it is regarded as passing the exam and you can get the qualification certificate of psychological counselor.
Third, the examination time
The appraisal examination is conducted twice a year, with the first half in May and the second half in 10. 20 1 17 The examination time for the first half of the year is May 20th, and the examination time for the second half of the year is 1 18.
Fourth, training materials.
The new textbook for psychological counselors 20 1 1 was officially published at the end of June. Published by Ethnic Publishing House, including basic knowledge, psychological counselor (level 2) skills and professional ethics, published by Blue Sky Publishing House.
Verb (abbreviation of verb) training content
Courses such as personality psychology, abnormal psychology, sexual psychology, professional psychology, group counseling, suicide crisis intervention, psychological counseling theory and practice, psychotherapy, psychological test and common scale (including projection test), psychological ethics and morality, influence fragment analysis, face-to-face teaching practice, etc. (not less than 500 hours, of which face-to-face teaching practice is not less than 120 hours).