Career Overlap Transition record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
Table 1Transition record

marriage counsellortosocial counsellor

A marriage counsellor already meets 76% of what the social counsellor role asks for. The move turns on 3 required skills not yet in the profile.

From marriage counsellor
76%
Overlap1
To social counsellor
58 Skills carried over
3 Required, not held
41.8 Difficulty2
Career overlap Very strong match

76%

Learning distance Real move, short list to learn

41.8/ 100

1 Share of the social counsellor role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the marriage counsellor profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.

Why

Why this move works

A social counsellor role treats 42 of its required skills as things a marriage counsellor already does. These are the ones it depends on most.

  • accept own accountability
  • apply quality standards in social services
  • apply socially just working principles
  • assess social service users' situation
  • behavioural therapy
  • build helping relationship with social service users

What stands in the way is 3 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.

Table 2

Table 2 · What you already bring

Of the 58 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A social counsellor role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a marriage counsellor background worth leading with.

Skill the target role also needs Area
  • already held counsel patient on family concerns communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held family therapy health and welfare
  • already held types of psychotherapy sessions social sciences, journalism and information
  • already held provide education on family life communication, collaboration and creativity
  • already held dependency on drugs health and welfare
  • already held maintain a non-emotional involvement assisting and caring

All 58 carried skills, including the 42 the social counsellor role treats as required.

Table 3

Table 3 · What you would need to learn

The 37 missing skills fall into 10 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.

Skill to acquire Tier
01 communication, collaboration and creativity 1 required, 11 supplementary
  • required, not held use psychoeducation required
  • optional, not held address gender-related issues in family planning counselling optional
  • optional, not held advise on family planning optional
  • optional, not held advise on pregnancy optional
  • optional, not held communicate by use of interpretation services optional
  • optional, not held cooperate with professionals optional
  • optional, not held inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse optional
  • optional, not held provide counselling on abortion optional
  • optional, not held apply foreign languages in social services optional
  • optional, not held communicate with youth optional
  • optional, not held prepare youths for adulthood optional
  • optional, not held promote the safeguarding of young people optional
02 assisting and caring 1 required, 7 supplementary
  • required, not held determine child welfare required
  • optional, not held provide anger management counselling optional
  • optional, not held facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held practice gestalt therapy optional
  • optional, not held support traumatised children optional
  • optional, not held support young victims of sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held use motivational incentives in addiction counselling optional
  • optional, not held work on the effects of abuse optional
03 health and welfare 1 required, 4 supplementary
  • required, not held sexual disorders required
  • optional, not held reproductive health optional
  • optional, not held social development optional
  • optional, not held sophrology optional
  • optional, not held movement techniques optional
04 management skills 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held assess the development of youth optional
  • optional, not held plan youth activities optional
  • optional, not held administer appointments optional
05 social sciences, journalism and information 3 supplementary
  • optional, not held strategies for handling cases of sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held peer group methods optional
  • optional, not held psychological counselling methods optional
06 services 2 supplementary
  • optional, not held anger management optional
  • optional, not held relaxation techniques optional

4 further areas in the appendix

Table 4

Table 4 · Where to start

The 3 entries a social counsellor role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.

Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.

Appendix

Appendix · The rest of the record

All 58 skills that carry over
Skill Type
  • already held accept own accountability skill
  • already held apply quality standards in social services skill
  • already held apply socially just working principles skill
  • already held assess social service users' situation skill
  • already held behavioural therapy knowledge
  • already held build helping relationship with social service users skill
  • already held client-centred counselling knowledge
  • already held clinical social work knowledge
  • already held cognitive behavioural therapy knowledge
  • already held communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields skill
  • already held communicate with social service users skill
  • already held cooperate at inter-professional level skill
  • already held counselling methods knowledge
  • already held deliver social services in diverse cultural communities skill
  • already held demonstrate leadership in social service cases skill
  • already held encourage counselled clients to examine themselves skill
  • already held follow health and safety precautions in social care practices skill
  • already held have emotional intelligence skill
  • already held help clients make decisions during counselling sessions skill
  • already held human psychological development knowledge
  • already held legal requirements in the social sector knowledge
  • already held listen actively skill
  • already held maintain a non-emotional involvement skill
  • already held maintain records of work with service users skill
  • already held maintain the trust of service users skill
  • already held manage social crisis skill
  • already held manage stress in the work place skill
  • already held organise relapse prevention skill
  • already held perform therapy sessions skill
  • already held promote human rights skill
  • already held promote inclusion skill
  • already held promote social change skill
  • already held provide social counselling skill
  • already held refer social service users skill
  • already held reflexion knowledge
  • already held relate empathetically skill
  • already held report on social development skill
  • already held respond to individuals' extreme emotions skill
  • already held social justice knowledge
  • already held social sciences knowledge
  • already held supervision of persons knowledge
  • already held undertake continuous professional development in social work skill
  • already held adolescent psychological development knowledge
  • already held advise on mental health skill
  • already held assess clients' drug and alcohol addictions skill
  • already held counsel patient on family concerns skill
  • already held dependency on drugs knowledge
  • already held develop patient treatment strategies skill
  • already held empower individuals, families and groups skill
  • already held family therapy knowledge
  • already held help clients cope with grief skill
  • already held identify mental health issues skill
  • already held provide education on family life skill
  • already held psychological theories knowledge
  • already held psychology knowledge
  • already held stages of bereavement knowledge
  • already held support the positiveness of youths skill
  • already held types of psychotherapy sessions knowledge
The 4 learning areas not shown above
Skill to acquire Tier
07 business, administration and law 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held accounting techniques optional
08 education 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held sex education optional
09 information skills 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held carry out psychiatric assessment of child optional
10 natural sciences, mathematics and statistics 1 supplementary
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
34 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
Skill to acquire Tier
  • optional, not held anger management optional
  • optional, not held provide anger management counselling optional
  • optional, not held address gender-related issues in family planning counselling optional
  • optional, not held advise on family planning optional
  • optional, not held advise on pregnancy optional
  • optional, not held assess the development of youth optional
  • optional, not held carry out psychiatric assessment of child optional
  • optional, not held communicate by use of interpretation services optional
  • optional, not held cooperate with professionals optional
  • optional, not held facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held inform on the risks of substance and alcohol abuse optional
  • optional, not held plan youth activities optional
  • optional, not held practice gestalt therapy optional
  • optional, not held provide counselling on abortion optional
  • optional, not held reproductive health optional
  • optional, not held social development optional
  • optional, not held sophrology optional
  • optional, not held strategies for handling cases of sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held support traumatised children optional
  • optional, not held support young victims of sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held use motivational incentives in addiction counselling optional
  • optional, not held work on the effects of abuse optional
  • optional, not held accounting techniques optional
  • optional, not held administer appointments optional
  • optional, not held apply foreign languages in social services optional
  • optional, not held communicate with youth optional
  • optional, not held movement techniques optional
  • optional, not held peer group methods optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held prepare youths for adulthood optional
  • optional, not held promote the safeguarding of young people optional
  • optional, not held psychological counselling methods optional
  • optional, not held relaxation techniques optional
  • optional, not held sex education optional
0 held skills the social counsellor role does not ask for
Skill Type
13 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice

Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.

Skill to acquire Tier
  • required, not held sexual disorders required
  • optional, not held anger management optional
  • optional, not held reproductive health optional
  • optional, not held social development optional
  • optional, not held sophrology optional
  • optional, not held strategies for handling cases of sexual assault optional
  • optional, not held accounting techniques optional
  • optional, not held movement techniques optional
  • optional, not held peer group methods optional
  • optional, not held pharmacology optional
  • optional, not held psychological counselling methods optional
  • optional, not held relaxation techniques optional
  • optional, not held sex education optional
Index

Other moves recorded from marriage counsellor

Full index of moves from marriage counsellor

Note

How this record was compiled

Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.