This weekend, I will listen to a professional sharing in the psychological counseling industry. The theme is how novice psychological counselors grow up efficiently.
Judging from the publicity copy of the event organizers, they have the following three views:
First, novice counselors should receive systematic training, including theoretical knowledge, practical operation, supervision and personal growth.
Second, novice counselors should choose psychodynamics as their main learning direction.
Third, novice psychological counselors should strive to become contracted consultants of consulting institutions and get prepared books.
I basically agree with article 1 and article 3, but I have reservations about article 2.
If there is an opportunity, I will share this question with the sharing guests.
Some people say that the growth of psychological counselors is divided into seven stages.
At this stage, you can't be called a counselor, because at this stage, you are only interested in helping others and have no professional knowledge of a counselor.
In your instinctive period, your spoken language is "According to my experience …". Their help to others is blind.
This is not to say that the instinctive period is not good. Instinct period is the necessary stage to become a psychological counselor, which at least shows that you are interested in people and have the personality characteristics to become a psychological counselor.
Most people who have just started to study psychological counseling are in this period. The spoken language of this period is: I suggest … I think …
At this stage, you will listen to many classes and read many books. The research at this stage is complicated and unsystematic.
You can already see the pain of visitors, but you lack the ability to help them.
If consultation is started at this stage, the turnover rate of visitors is often high.
The key words of this stage are system and reflection.
At this stage, you have realized the importance of systematic learning and started taking some systematic courses.
At the same time, you start to reflect on yourself. You will begin to understand the complexity of people.
You begin to realize the limits of your ability, and learn to cooperate with visitors in the context of consultation, instead of giving them advice at will.
You will choose a theory that suits you best to study in depth. This choice is related to your personality and your understanding of human nature.
When you enter the selection period, you will gradually have systematic professional knowledge and ability to handle relatively complicated cases independently.
During the selection period, one skill that must be mastered is writing case reports, which requires you to conceptualize the case. Its basic meaning is to explain the actual situation of visitors clearly with professional theory.
At the same time, we must deeply realize the value and significance of regular supervision.
At this stage, you have become a qualified psychological counselor. You have a psychological counselor's thinking habits, emotional habits and behavior habits.
Summarize this period in one sentence.
You are warm and sincere, you have rich emotional experience, you are passionate about your work, and you always try your best to help visitors.
Any profession will face a period of burnout. The job burnout period of psychological counselors has its particularity.
Specifically, counselors themselves will encounter difficulties in life, but their proud theories and techniques are useless to them.
There are three ways to overcome the burnout period of psychological counseling.
First, set up a small group for yourself that can get support from it.
Second, actively seek the help and guidance of the supervisor.
Third, develop your hobbies in areas other than consulting and experience the fun of life.
At this stage, all counselors are masters, such as carl rogers and Irvin Yalom who are still alive.
There are four factors that affect the growth rate of psychological counselors: spending money, spending time, tossing, and managing the top three.
Any psychological counselor must be a lifelong learner.
The financial investment in the growth of psychological counselors can be divided into four parts: learning, supervision, personal growth and life experience.
Generally speaking, if you want to learn a certain theoretical school systematically, the cost is 1 10,000+.
Take the newly cancelled second-level psychological counselor certificate course as an example. The quotations of most training institutions are between 8000- 12000. This is also the cheapest systematic course.
If you are a psychodynamic-oriented counselor, you need to take part in Sino-German psychoanalysis continuous training or Sino-American psychoanalysis continuous training. The cost of these two trainings is between 20,000 and 30,000, which is usually completed in two years.
If you choose to be a Satya-oriented family therapist, congratulations! The cost of completing Satya system training is about 50 thousand.
If you choose to be a mentor, congratulations! Because most orthodox physical and mental courses cost more than 50 thousand, and some even need 65438+ 10 thousand.
These are just the fees for attending a systematic training. If you want to take psychological counseling as your career, you can never attend systematic training only once in your life.
Psychological counseling practitioners are also constantly participating in systematic learning.
In addition to attending systematic courses, you also need to attend irregular workshops. Although the cost of workshops is much cheaper than that of systematic courses, there are more times.
Another problem to consider is that some valuable workshops may no longer be in the city where you live. Attending these workshops, in addition to paying training fees, you have to bear additional expenses such as round-trip transportation and accommodation.
Of course, you can choose to take popular online courses, and the price of online courses will be much cheaper than online courses.
But the shortcomings of online courses are also obvious.
First, many practical techniques of psychological counseling need teachers' face-to-face guidance, and online explanations are easy to stay on the surface.
Second, because there is no one to supervise the class, you need to have stronger self-control. Most people's self-control is ineffective.
Finally, the money to buy professional books. This can be ignored.
Need supervision, which means you have started taking cases.
In the initial stage of negotiation, it is difficult to push the case forward without supervision. In addition, novice consultants often engage in public welfare consultation or low-cost consultation, so for novice consultants, supervision fees are also part of the learning expenses.
Supervisors are experienced psychological counselors. The cost of individual supervision with them is generally above 800 yuan 1 hour, and it needs at least 1 time a week.
If you choose a cheap supervisor, chances are that he won't leave you at all.
Personal growth refers to the psychological counselors themselves as visitors, accepting the advice of more experienced counselors and solving their own growing problems.
At the initial stage of personal growth, your problems are superficial. You can choose a general counselor, such as 300 yuan, and charge by the hour once a week.
But with the deepening of self-exploration, some deep-seated problems will gradually emerge. At this time, you are likely to need a more qualified psychological counselor, and even need to receive long-term psychological motivation counseling.
The consulting fee of psychodynamic counselors is generally 800 to 1000 yuan per hour, and it needs to be consulted 2 to 5 times a week for several years.
Psychological counselors need to be a more interesting person in order to have a deeper insight into life.
Psychological counselors need to travel, learn to appreciate art and cultivate their hobbies. Although this is not the patent of psychological counselors, it is also related to psychological counseling.
Compared with spending money, spending time is a scarcer resource.
Most novice counselors study psychological counseling after their own work.
This creates a paradox.
If you are a nine-to-five office worker, another time-consuming problem is that some courses need to occupy the working day.
In this case, do you ask for leave from the company or give up the learning opportunity?
Besides course study, self-study and course digestion and absorption are time-consuming things.
The growth path of most psychological counselors is: from public welfare consultation to small fee consultation, and then to fee consultation.
Most people are trapped in the first step.
They think it's too much.
If you want to take part in public consultation, you should at least do these things.
First, you need to fill in some personal information, and sometimes you need to upload a copy of your certificate at the same time.
Then, you need to take part in activities in your spare time. Many public consultations are held on weekends, which at least means that you can't sleep late.
Furthermore, the public consultation you started with may be just monotonous and repetitive work. For example, the public welfare project of an institution is a one-on-one phased evaluation of drug addicts in the community.
This may make you feel that your work is not fulfilling.
Finally, you paid time, physical strength, brain power and heart, but it was free.
* * Learners who love tossing will strive to move forward, and those who don't love tossing will always be stuck here.
If we sum up the above three aspects, spending money is financial management, spending time is time management, and love tossing is energy management.
Managing these three is managing your own life.
If you don't manage your finances well, you will have no food if you continue to study.
If you don't manage your time well, it will be difficult for you to grow even if you spend money.
If you don't manage your energy well, even if there are more opportunities, it will only be others' opportunities.
Only by managing the first three can you become a qualified psychological counselor.
More importantly, become a complete person.
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