Occupation Atlassexual violence counsellor
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/b9dd2ee7-5fea-46f8-b226-ddae9501f728
sexual violence counsellor
Sexual violence counsellors provide support services, crisis care services and counselling to women and adolescents who have been directly or indirectly exposed to sexual assault and/or rape. They inform victims of the relevant legal procedures and protective services maintaining client confidentiality. They also address problematic sexualized behaviours of children.
Compare with another occupationCompare with drug and alcohol addiction counsellor
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
SICSocial · Investigative · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- S Social6.97
- I Investigative4.08
- C Conventional3.12
- A Artistic2.78
- E Enterprising2.46
- R Realistic1.71
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers (21-1023.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, a broader O*NET occupation that includes this one, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (53)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- accept own accountability
- adolescent psychological development
- apply quality standards in social services
- apply socially just working principles
- assess social service users' situation
- assess the development of youth
- behavioural therapy
- build helping relationship with social service users
- client-centred counselling
- cognitive behavioural therapy
- communicate professionally with colleagues in other fields
- communicate with social service users
- cooperate at inter-professional level
- counselling methods
- deliver social services in diverse cultural communities
- demonstrate leadership in social service cases
- encourage counselled clients to examine themselves
- facilitate the healing process related to sexual assault
- follow health and safety precautions in social care practices
- have emotional intelligence
- help clients make decisions during counselling sessions
- human psychological development
- legal requirements in the social sector
- listen actively
- maintain a non-emotional involvement
- maintain records of work with service users
- maintain the trust of service users
- manage social crisis
- manage stress in the work place
- organise relapse prevention
- perform therapy sessions
- promote human rights
- promote inclusion
- promote social change
- promote the safeguarding of young people
- provide social counselling
- psychological theories
- psychology
- refer social service users
- reflexion
- relate empathetically
- report on social development
- respond to individuals' extreme emotions
- screen clients
- sexual disorders
- social justice
- social sciences
- strategies for handling cases of sexual assault
- supervision of persons
- support the positiveness of youths
- support young victims of sexual assault
- undertake continuous professional development in social work
- work on the effects of abuse
Optional (1)
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 53 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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31 shared · 41 more of its ownclient-centred counselling, counselling methods, adolescent psychological development, refer social service users
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