Psychological counselors are professionals who use psychological knowledge and related skills to help visitors alleviate their psychological problems through psychological counseling techniques. Their main duty is to listen to the demands of visitors, understand their emotions and confusion, and provide corresponding psychological support and guidance.
As a psychological counselor, you need to have solid psychological theoretical knowledge and practical skills, as well as good communication skills, interpersonal skills and problem-solving skills. They need to keep learning and improve their professional level in order to better provide help and support for tourists.
At work, psychological counselors need to establish good trust and relationship with visitors, and help them to alleviate their psychological problems and improve their psychological quality and adaptability through effective communication and technical means. They also need to keep the personal information and data of visitors confidential to ensure the privacy of visitors is protected.
The difference between psychological counselors and psychotherapists;
1. Workplace and professional background: Psychotherapists generally work in hospitals, and psychological counselors mainly work in psychological consultation institutions. In addition, psychotherapists are usually psychiatrists, while psychological counselors have psychological, educational and medical backgrounds.
2. Nature of work: Psychotherapists mainly focus on drug therapy and psychological intervention, and mainly pay attention to patients' mental health problems. Psychological counselors pay more attention to providing psychological theories and methods to help tourists remove psychological barriers and pay more attention to individual development and growth.
3. Textual research requirements: The minimum requirement for applying for a psychological counselor is to meet at least one of the following conditions: having a junior college degree in psychology, education and medicine, reaching the required standard hours after the three-level formal training of psychological counselors, and obtaining a certificate of completion; Have a bachelor's degree or above in other majors, have reached the required standard hours after three-level formal training of psychological counselors, and have obtained a certificate of completion.
4. Prescription right: Psychotherapists have certain prescription right and can prescribe psychotropic drugs. Psychological counselors, on the other hand, have no right to prescribe.