Necessary conditions for becoming a qualified career counselor

(1) Personality:

The personality condition of a career counselor is the most important factor to do a good job in psychological counseling, and it is also the first condition that a career counselor should have. The so-called personality refers to a person's whole mental outlook, which is the sum total of stable psychological characteristics with certain tendencies, including temperament, personality, interests, beliefs and abilities. First, he should be a relatively healthy person, and his health level is at least higher than that of his clients. A qualified career counselor should be a happy person who loves life and has good adaptability. He can properly handle his own psychological conflicts and eliminate daily interference, thus ensuring the smooth progress of helping others. Secondly, he should be a helpful person. Only helpful people can give warmth to clients in the consultation relationship, create a safe and free atmosphere, accept all kinds of positive and negative emotions of clients, and enter the inner world of clients; Third, he should be a serious and responsible person. Listen patiently to the client's narrative, concentrate without distraction, so that the client feels concerned about their difficulties, can talk sincerely and frankly with the client, and make them willing to expose their inner privacy and secrets, which is worthy of their trust.

(2) Knowledge:

It is necessary to have the necessary theoretical knowledge to do psychological counseling well. Psychological counseling does not rely on good wishes, enthusiasm and common sense to comfort, persuade clients in trouble or encourage psychological patients to fight against diseases. Psychological counseling and psychotherapy are scientific work. We should help clients with scientific knowledge of helping others, so that they can understand the real reason that bothers them, correct or give up their maladaptive behavior, and make them mature psychologically. Career counselors must have knowledge of behavioral science, social psychology, psychotherapy, psychiatry, etc. in order to understand how the clients' difficulties are formed. Where are the roots of contradictions and conflicts? Wait a minute.

(3) You must have certain skills:

Career counselors should have skilled help skills, which include how to collect the client's relevant information in the shortest time, such as the situation or event that bothers him, the time when symptoms appear and their development and changes, and how to ask questions in a timely and astute manner. How to find the client's unconscious cover-up and resistance? How to guide them to gradually understand the crux of their hearts, how to design some corresponding methods to correct some bad behaviors, especially for children with neurosis, how to explain something to clients at the right time, what to explain and so on.

Although the personality conditions, knowledge conditions and skill conditions mentioned above are primary and secondary, they are all very important and cannot replace each other. A good career counselor should be a combination of personal qualities, academic knowledge and helping skills.

In addition to the three conditions mentioned above, to become a qualified career counselor, there are two things to do:

① Career counselors should pay special attention to moral cultivation. Psychologists must have noble professional ethics and should not take advantage of their work to do things that are not conducive to patients. When things need to be kept secret for patients, they should not be spread casually;

② Career counselors should constantly know themselves and know themselves. Not only should we know our strengths and advantages, but more importantly, our weaknesses and blind spots. Only by analyzing yourself and understanding yourself can we understand others.

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