The examination for psychological counselors is divided into two subjects: theoretical knowledge and professional ability. Psychological counselors refer to professionals who use psychology and related knowledge, follow psychological principles and help clients solve psychological problems through psychological counseling techniques and methods.
A counselor is a person who helps people solve various psychological problems. The most common and main target of psychological counseling is healthy people or people with psychological problems.
Healthy people will face many problems such as family, career choice, study, anxiety, depression and social adaptation. They will expect to make ideal choices, successfully spend all stages of their lives, seek the maximum play of their own abilities and seek a good quality of life. Psychological counselors can provide targeted development suggestions and give corresponding help from a psychological point of view.
The process of providing psychological services to visitors who have problems in psychological adaptation and seek to solve them by using psychological methods. Individual counseling covers the following four parts, including general psychological problems, serious psychological problems, partial neurotic psychological problems and psychotic problems.
The role of psychological counselor
1. Providing mental health services: Psychological counselors provide mental health services to individuals or groups through professional psychological knowledge and skills to help them solve psychological problems and puzzles and improve their mental health level.
2. Promote personal growth and development: psychological counselors help individuals to explore their own potential, promote personal growth and development, and enhance their self-awareness and self-development ability by providing psychological counseling and counseling.
3. Improve interpersonal skills: Psychological counselors help individuals improve their interpersonal skills and enhance the quality and stability of interpersonal relationships by providing guidance and training in interpersonal communication.
4. Provide crisis intervention and psychological counseling: Psychological counselors can provide timely crisis intervention and psychological counseling when individuals or groups face crisis events, help them tide over difficulties and reduce psychological trauma and adverse effects.