Junior can apply for the third-level psychological counselor training class and take the exam, regardless of major. Tuition is generally around 1500-2000 yuan.
Examination time for psychological counselors:
1. The examination time for psychological counselors is twice a year, in May and the third weekend 1 1. 2. If you fail the exam, you can make up the exam in the next exam;
If the make-up exam fails, you need to re-evaluate and take the exam.
At present, the domestic psychological counselor certification mainly includes Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's national psychological counselor qualification certification (nationwide except overseas), Shanghai's psychological counselor professional qualification certification and international psychological counselor qualification certification.
At present, the certification in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security is quite authoritative, and the following contents are mainly based on the certification of psychological counselors in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (nationwide, except overseas).
Training standards and teaching materials
First, the national unified examination uses the National Vocational Standards and the National Vocational Qualification Training Course for Psychological Counselors compiled by the former Ministry of Labor and Social Security. The main contents include:
1, basic knowledge [1]: basic psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, abnormal psychology and health psychology, psychometrics, consulting psychology.
2. Skill operation: psychological diagnosis skills, psychological consultation skills and psychological test skills.
3. Professional ethics
Second, in 2006, Shanghai increased the content and difficulty requirements on the basis of the national unified examination standard, and independently compiled the local 1+X standard textbook "Training Course for Psychological Counselors (National Vocational Qualification Level II)" and "Training Course for Assistant Psychological Counselors (National Vocational Qualification Level III)" (edited by Fu Anqiu of East China Normal University Press), the main contents of which include:
1. Training courses for assistant psychological counselors: general psychology, social psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, school psychology, gender difference psychology, psychological statistics and measurement, psychological counseling theory and technology, psychological ethics and morality, etc. The theoretical part is not less than 350 hours.
2. Training courses for psychological counselors: abnormal psychology, sexual psychology, personality psychology, group counseling, professional psychology, psychotherapy, psychological test and application of commonly used scales, psychological counseling theory and practice, suicide crisis intervention, psychological ethics and morality, etc. The theoretical part is not less than 380 hours.
In addition: Shanghai 1+X training also needs to add practical courses with no less than 50 class hours at level 3 and no less than 120 class hours at level 2.
The work of professional psychological counselors mainly includes the following contents: obtaining information about psychological problems and psychological obstacles of visitors from information sources such as visitors and their families; Comprehensive evaluation of visitors' psychological growth, personality development, intelligence, social, family and marriage life events, and summary of psychological and physiological tests; According to the history of psychological development and the results of psychological and physiological investigation, make psychological diagnosis for visitors, formulate psychological treatment plans and guide their implementation; In psychological counseling, when visitors are found to have mental disorders or physical diseases, they should ask for counseling or transfer to other specialties in time.
Psychologists should not only have a certain level of professional knowledge, but also have a certain professional quality. There are many reasons leading to psychological problems or mental illness, among which conflicts and frictions between people, love and marriage, family conflicts, parent-child relationship, entrance examination, employment choice and other issues are particularly prominent. At the same time, it involves the privacy of many people, and some of them will be very story-telling. Keeping secrets for visitors has become the basic morality and primary quality of psychologists.
In foreign countries, every consulting room will hang a sign with the name, educational background and problems he is good at. If there are those who are good at solving children's psychological problems, there are those who are good at solving husband-wife relationship problems and so on. Help-seekers can choose suitable consultants according to their own problems. Although China has not reached this point, it is also the future trend.
According to the statistics of 199 1 year, there are 550 psychologists in every million people in the United States, of whom more than 87% have doctorates in psychology or philosophy. According to the statistics of China 1997, there are only 2.4 psychologists per million people, of whom less than 2% have master's and doctoral degrees. No matter in quantity or quality, the situation of psychological counselors in China is not satisfactory. Therefore, some experts say that China's psychological counseling industry has great development potential, and the psychological counseling industry is far from forming a scale. Psychological counseling industry will develop greatly in the future 10. At present, China's psychological counseling has made great progress in quantity and quality. Paying attention to mental health marks the degree of social civilization. The progressive society looks forward to the emergence of psychological masseurs, which can relieve people's psychological pressure, put psychological counseling on the right track and make people have a higher quality of life.
Applicable people for psychological counselor certification:
Educators, primary and secondary school counselors
University psychology teacher
journalist
social worker
medical worker
Ideological and political workers (party and government workers and young women)
Enterprise human resource manager
Public security and judicial police
Public relations worker
The manager of a charity
People of insight from all walks of life who advocate the quality of life, pay attention to self-growth and pursue physical and mental health.
Any teacher can do it.
It is also necessary for parents to take some psychological counseling courses for their children's growth.