# Competences — marriage counsellor

Source: ESCO v1.2.1 occupation-skill relations (http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/9cda1c7c-ba07-4381-b831-1bb346ff865f).

## Essential

- **accept own accountability** (skill/competence)
- **apply quality standards in social services** (skill/competence)
- **apply socially just working principles** (skill/competence)
- **assess social service users' situation** (skill/competence)
- **behavioural therapy** (knowledge)
- **build helping relationship with social service users** (skill/competence)
- **client-centred counselling** (knowledge)
- **cognitive behavioural therapy** (knowledge)
- **communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields** (skill/competence)
- **communicate with social service users** (skill/competence)
- **cooperate at inter-professional level** (skill/competence)
- **counsel patient on family concerns** (skill/competence)
- **counselling methods** (knowledge)
- **deliver social services in diverse cultural communities** (skill/competence)
- **demonstrate leadership in social service cases** (skill/competence)
- **empower individuals, families and groups** (skill/competence)
- **encourage counselled clients to examine themselves** (skill/competence)
- **family therapy** (knowledge)
- **follow health and safety precautions in social care practices** (skill/competence)
- **have emotional intelligence** (skill/competence)
- **help clients make decisions during counselling sessions** (skill/competence)
- **human psychological development** (knowledge)
- **legal requirements in the social sector** (knowledge)
- **listen actively** (skill/competence)
- **maintain a non-emotional involvement** (skill/competence)
- **maintain records of work with service users** (skill/competence)
- **maintain the trust of service users** (skill/competence)
- **manage social crisis** (skill/competence)
- **manage stress in the work place** (skill/competence)
- **organise relapse prevention** (skill/competence)
- **perform therapy sessions** (skill/competence)
- **promote human rights** (skill/competence)
- **promote inclusion** (skill/competence)
- **promote social change** (skill/competence)
- **provide social counselling** (skill/competence)
- **psychological theories** (knowledge)
- **psychology** (knowledge)
- **refer social service users** (skill/competence)
- **reflexion** (knowledge)
- **relate empathetically** (skill/competence)
- **report on social development** (skill/competence)
- **respond to individuals' extreme emotions** (skill/competence)
- **social justice** (knowledge)
- **social sciences** (knowledge)
- **supervision of persons** (knowledge)
- **types of psychotherapy sessions** (knowledge)
- **undertake continuous professional development in social work** (skill/competence)

## Optional

- adolescent psychological development (knowledge)
- advise on mental health (skill/competence)
- assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions (skill/competence)
- clinical social work (knowledge)
- dependency on drugs (knowledge)
- develop patient treatment strategies (skill/competence)
- help clients cope with grief (skill/competence)
- identify mental health issues (skill/competence)
- provide education on family life (skill/competence)
- stages of bereavement (knowledge)
- support the positiveness of youths (skill/competence)