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Emotional counselor refers to a person who provides counseling services to helpers who encounter various problems in love, marriage, and family life. The profession of emotional counselor was included in the ninth batch of new occupations list of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in April 2007.

Emotional counselor

Emotional counselor (formal name: Marriage and Family Counselor)

(1) For unmarried and married persons

The family is the cell of society, and the construction of a harmonious family is an important foundation for the construction of a harmonious society. At present, there are 1.3 billion people in our country. The vast majority of people have to go through the process of dating, choosing a spouse, organizing a family, and raising children. At present, people's requirements for quality of life and happiness index are constantly increasing. However, in the face of the frustration of love, marital turmoil, rising divorce rate, domestic violence, crisis of youth growth, etc., many people have become confused and have expressed various anxieties. Many parties who are troubled by marriage and family problems have no way to help, and even cause personal tragedies. If these problems are not resolved in a timely manner, it will jeopardize personal growth and family happiness, and then affect social stability.

There are various professional marriage and family counseling and counseling agencies in western developed countries and China s Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions. They provide counseling services in a timely manner to helpers who have encountered various problems in love, marriage, and family life, and effectively help people lift their lives. Kind of trouble. In China, most of the marriage and family consultation and assistance work have to be undertaken by non-professional organizations such as women's federations, trade unions, Communist Youth League organizations, the Family Planning Commission and other social workers; some law firms are responsible for divorce lawsuits, some lawyers, and some Occupational counselors are also conducting counseling services in marriage and family. Together, these people already number millions. Among them, one third of the 40,000 people who have obtained the qualification of a psychological counselor are engaged in marriage and family counseling.

However, the above-mentioned various types of personnel have not undergone standardized training in specialized marriage and family counseling services, and lack a uniform standard of employment and service specifications, and the effectiveness of counseling services is difficult to guarantee. At the same time, there are also some illegal institutions in the society who are purely for profit, and are also conducting training and guidance on marriage and family. Not only the training effect is poor, but it may also be misleading and harmful to the service object.

The establishment of the new profession of marriage and family counselors is of great significance for improving the quality of employees, establishing and perfecting industry standards, improving the level of marriage and family counseling services, and promoting the construction of a harmonious family.

There are about 370 million families in China. With the development of society, people are pursuing the quality of marriage and family life more, and the demand for marriage and family counseling will increase. Therefore, the profession of marriage and family counselor has a good development prospect. .

Because the content of human marriage and family life is quite rich, the fields involved are quite extensive, and the corresponding problems are quite complicated. Therefore, almost every discipline of social sciences involves the study of marriage and family. From this we can see that marriage and family are not an independent discipline, but a comprehensive discipline composed of multiple disciplines. As a marriage and family counselor who will counsel and assist others in their marriage and family life, they should first receive corresponding higher education, learn some basic theories related to marriage and family, and master certain knowledge about marriage and family. Marriage family concept. Therefore, we have selected 10 courses that are most closely related to marriage and family as the basic subjects that marriage and family counselors must learn, including a brief history of marriage and family development, sociology, marriage and family psychology, marriage and family ethics, sexual science, marriage and family. 10 courses including inheritance law, family education, mother education, social work and counselling skills, as follows:

"The Changes and Status Quo of Chinese Marriage and Family"

Sociology of Marriage and Family

"Marriage and Family Psychology"

"Marriage and Family Ethics"

Marriage and Family Law

"Marriage and Family Counseling Methods"

Sexual Knowledge in Marriage

"Family Education and Parent Education"

Family Social Work

Gender Equality and Harmonious Family Construction

Recent developments: 26 national occupational standards including marriage and family counselors issued by the Ministry of Labor ^[1]

On January 2, 2008, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security issued 26 national occupational standards, including marriage and family counselors, to labor and social security departments (bureaus) of the provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, as well as labor security agencies of relevant departments of the State Council. Among them, the National Occupational Standards for Marriage and Family Counselors was compiled and formulated by the relevant experts organized by the All-China Women's Federation Marriage and Family Research Association in 7 months. Experts from Lily.com, China Women's University, Peking University School of Medicine, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences participated in the development of professional standards. Vocational qualification certification training for this profession has also begun. The first qualification examination has been held in Beijing on June 21, 2009; the industry public welfare consultation forum "Home of Marriage and Family Counselors" initiated by the first consultants in July 2010 Open; 2010, Hunan, Chongqing, Shandong and other places have also started vocational qualification training and examination work. Emotional counselors (marriage and family counselors) are gradually being accepted by the general public.