Where a social counsellor can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a social counsellor already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Social counsellors provide support and guidance to individuals in the social work area, to help them solve specific problems in their personal life. It involves addressing personal and relationship issues, dealing with inner conflicts, crisis moments such as depression and addiction, in an attempt to empower individuals to achieve change and improve their life quality.
Also known as social therapist, crisis counsellor, crisis intervension counsellor, social counselling worker, crisis situation counselor, personal counsellor, youth counseller, gerontology counsellor, youth counsellor, rehabilitation support counsellor, crisis intervention counsellor, relationship advisor.
Professionals 95 skills on file 12 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: social pedagogue, 73%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- substance misuse worker 47% covered · difficulty 69.1
- residential childcare worker 46% covered · difficulty 69.6
- youth worker 46% covered · difficulty 70.4
- residential home young people care worker 46% covered · difficulty 69.9
- child care social worker 46% covered · difficulty 70
- mental health support worker 45% covered · difficulty 70.5
- family social worker 45% covered · difficulty 70.9
- child welfare worker 45% covered · difficulty 71
- social work assistant 45% covered · difficulty 62.7
- consultant social worker 45% covered · difficulty 71.3
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A social counsellor needs 45 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions assisting and caring
- use psychoeducation communication, collaboration and creativity
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves communication, collaboration and creativity
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions assisting and caring
- reflexion social sciences, journalism and information
- sexual disorders health and welfare
- cognitive behavioural therapy social sciences, journalism and information
- have emotional intelligence assisting and caring
- client-centred counselling health and welfare
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a social counsellor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
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Social counsellor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a social counsellor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.