Psychological counselors refer to professionals who use psychology and related knowledge, follow psychological principles, and help clients alleviate their psychological problems through psychological counseling techniques and methods. Psychological counselors can do a lot of work, mainly including the following four:
1, psychologist
Health is mainly divided into physical health and mental health. Patients in hospitals usually have some psychological confusion and diseases. Psychological counselors can relieve patients' anxiety and fear through mental health knowledge, thus speeding up patients' recovery, and can also carry out drug treatment according to the severity of the illness.
2. Full-time psychological counselor
You can set up your own psychological counseling center or counseling room, and use psychological professional knowledge and skills to guide visitors to solve their psychological problems with their own strength.
3. School psychological teachers
Many schools will have special psychological counselors, whose main tasks include: publicizing the knowledge of popular science psychology and letting students know their psychological activities and personality characteristics; Promote mental health knowledge, make students realize the importance of mental health, and establish mental health awareness; Provide methods to maintain mental health, help students adjust negative emotions and learn to face problems positively.
4. Community psychological service workers
To provide psychological counseling services for the whole community residents and solve various problems, mainly to adjust interpersonal relationships, deal with neighborhood relationships and appease the emotions of community residents.
These are the jobs of some mainstream psychological counselors, so what is the prospect of psychological counselors?
Second, do psychological counselors have good employment prospects?
Psychological counselors have broad employment prospects. As can be seen from the above, counselors can do a lot of work. In addition, they can also see the employment prospects of psychological counselors from the aspects of market demand and their own development:
1, market demand
The public's demand for psychological level is more and more obvious, and there are more and more people with mental disorders and psychological disorders. However, professionals engaged in psychological counseling are quite scarce, and there are even fewer universities with psychology departments in China, and psychological counseling majors and training resources are even scarcer. Therefore, the state and the media pay great attention to the profession of psychological counselor.
2. Self-development
(1) Psychological counselors have a wide range of employment directions, and can provide psychological counseling services for enterprises, mental health management companies, psychological counseling centers, nursing homes, community health service centers, medical service institutions, and health examination centers.
(2) The income of psychological counselors is also quite good. The fees for psychological counseling in China range from 100 yuan to 1000 yuan per hour, and some big cities charge more.
(3) Psychological counselor is a career that can be engaged for life, and will not be unable to continue to engage because of the growth of age. On the contrary, the older you get, the more experienced you are.
So overall, the employment prospects of psychological counselors are quite broad. Of course, it is not so easy to become an excellent psychological counselor. It requires not only professional knowledge, but also continuous learning in practice to improve professional ability.