Responsibilities of psychological counselors:
1. Counseling: communicate with individuals or organizations and provide psychological counseling to help them identify and solve psychological problems.
2. Evaluation: Use appropriate evaluation tools to understand the individual's psychological status and determine the direction and methods of psychological counseling.
3. Planning: Work out plans and goals with individuals or organizations to deal with psychological problems.
4. Supervision: to supervise and evaluate the progress of individual or organization's psychological consultation, and to understand the effect of psychological consultation.
5. Management: Manage relevant information such as case records and data to ensure the confidentiality and privacy of information.
6. Education: provide some education and publicity about mental health, mental illness and treatment to individuals or organizations.
7. Maintenance of consulting atmosphere: In order to ensure the safety and comfort of consulting space, psychological counselors need to consider and manage the consulting atmosphere, so that they can give active support and take into account the corresponding requirements of daily operation, hygiene and aesthetics.
The importance of psychological counseling:
1. Help individuals solve psychological problems: Psychological counseling helps individuals identify and solve psychological problems through professional and scientific methods, and reduces or eliminates symptoms and sequelae of psychological diseases.
2. Promote mental health: Psychological counseling helps to establish personal mental health and self-awareness, improve personal mood, behavior and interpersonal level, relieve stress and anxiety, and then affect personal overall health.
3. Improve the quality of life: Psychological counseling can help individuals better cope with the problems and difficulties in life, and establish appropriate coping mechanisms and self-management methods, thus improving the quality of life.
4. Manage emotions and behaviors: Psychological counseling can help individuals better understand their emotions and behaviors, so as to better control themselves and change negative thinking and emotions.