1. What certificates does the counselor have? Before 20 17, the national unified examination for psychological counselor certificate will be conducted, and the second-and third-level psychological counselor professional qualification certificates will be awarded.
After 20 17, the state adjusted the catalogue of professional qualifications and no longer issued psychological counseling certificates. At this point, only the third-party institutions as a whole can issue the relevant certificates of psychological counselors. Then according to the nature of the certification body, let's take stock of the certificates on the market now.
Category I: Relevant units in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security.
Certification body: China National Personnel Training Network, institutional nature: government agencies, China National Personnel Training Network is a national online training and education professional institution sponsored by the Personnel Service Center of Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security institutions with the approval of the former Party Group of the Ministry of Personnel.
This website belongs to the national professional training platform, aiming at providing diversified training and education services for all kinds of social members. It has obtained the certificates of in-service national civil servants, professional and technical personnel, enterprise managers and social system workers, and the skills training certificate of psychological counselors.
The second category: institutions in related fields of psychology.
Certification body: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Institutional nature: Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences is the only national psychology, scientific research and teaching institution in China, and it is also the affiliated unit of the Chinese Psychological Association and the Preparatory Committee of China Psychological Counselors Association.
The Institute of Psychology of Chinese Academy of Sciences is the leader of domestic scientific research. It is an expert organization with academic background and psychology as its main purpose, and has formulated the existing national professional standards for psychological counselors. Certificate: basic training certificate for psychological counselors.
The third category: social organizations
This kind of institution is neither a national institution nor a functional department, let alone a relevant institution in the professional field. Certification body of the Research Committee on Psychological Standards and Services of Chinese Psychological Society. Institutional nature: a branch of the Chinese Psychological Association, a social group composed of experts in psychology and other fields. Certificate: professional skill certificate of psychological counselor. Certification body: China Mental Health Association.
Institutional nature: a corporate social group composed of scientific workers and related units such as psychology, medicine, sociology and education. Certificates: psychological counseling training certificates, and some certificates issued by other institutions. I won't list them all here.
Second, the theoretical knowledge part of the course content of psychological counselors:
1, general psychology. 2. Social psychology. 3. Developmental psychology. 4. abnormal psychology. 5. Health psychology. 6. Psychometrics. 7. Counseling psychology.
Skill operation part:
1, psychological diagnosis skills. 2. Psychological counseling skills. 3. Psychological test skills.
The National Psychological Counselor Project adopts the national unified computer (computer room) examination, which is organized and implemented by the National Institute of Psychology of China Academy of Sciences, with unified arrangement of knowledge points and unified invigilation.