What is a marriage and family counselor?

A marriage and family counselor is a person who provides counseling services to those who encounter various problems in love, marriage and family life.

According to the requirements of the National Professional Standards for Marriage and Family Counselors, the Code of Professional Ethics for Marriage and Family Counselors includes six aspects:

First, respect customers and meet service needs;

Second, protect personal privacy and strictly observe the consultation secrets;

Third, adhere to honesty and trustworthiness and prohibit the abuse of credit;

Fourth, the language and manners are civilized, and the quality and ability are appropriate;

Five, follow the public order and good customs, abide by laws and regulations;

Sixth, carry forward family virtues and promote social harmony.

Protecting personal privacy and strictly keeping consulting secrets are very important contents in the professional ethics of marriage and family counselors. Privacy, also known as the secret of personal life, generally refers to private life and private information that is only related to the interests or person of a specific person, and the right holder does not want to be known by others.

The field of marriage and family belongs to the private field, and secrets of personal life that others don't want to know abound. Marriage and family counselors must abide by professional ethics, pay attention to protecting the personal privacy of help seekers, strictly abide by the confidentiality provisions of consultation, and never allow the following acts that infringe the privacy of help seekers:

1. Unnecessary investigation and publication of the helper's marital sexual life;

2. Publicize the helper's extramarital sex life to the public;

3. Disclosing the personal data of the helper or making it public or expanding the scope of disclosure;

4. Collect pure personal information that the helper does not want to disclose to the public;

5. Other acts that infringe on the privacy of the helper.

Adhering to honesty and trustworthiness means that marriage and family counseling should be honest, not false, not deceptive and not harmful to the interests of those seeking help; Keep promises, strictly and comprehensively perform duties and obligations, and consciously take responsibility when performing duties and obligations.

Language civilization and behavior civilization are the external images of the internal professional ethics of marriage and family counselors. For marriage and family counselors, the following aspects must be achieved in the workplace:

1. Dress neatly and generously. You can wear a suit or casual clothes, but don't wear fancy clothes. Women, in particular, should not wear clothes that expose themselves.

2. In language, be polite, be polite, be thoughtful, and don't speak too loudly.

3. Don't have direct conflict with the helper.

Appropriate quality and ability is a key issue. Appropriate quality and ability require marriage and family counselors to have corresponding quality and ability in consulting services. Consultants at different levels should work within the service scope of consultants at the same level determined by professional standards, and should not work beyond the scope or beyond their own ability, so as not to affect the service quality. When you encounter a consultation task that you can't undertake, you should make a timely and appropriate referral according to the operating procedures.

To accomplish this task, consultants must have good abilities. This ability mainly comes from two aspects:

First, study hard professional knowledge, including the basic knowledge, basic principles and methods that marriage and family counselors must master, as well as the basic skills that marriage and family counselors at different levels must have;

The second is to constantly exercise and improve in practice. Be good at learning from teachers and predecessors, and be good at self-summary and improvement.

Public order and good customs refer to socially recognized order and good customs. Following public order and good customs means that the words and deeds of marriage and family counselors in consulting services should abide by public order and good customs, and must not violate national public order and good customs and universal social morality. A qualified marriage and family counselor must have a good legal awareness, master relevant laws and regulations, and at the same time correctly understand his legal status, legal rights and legal responsibilities, so as to know, interpret and abide by the law. He should not only pay attention to introducing legal knowledge to people who seek help, but also strengthen legal concepts in his work and life, abide by legal provisions, fulfill legal obligations, and put an end to illegal and criminal acts. Only in this way can we ensure the excellent completion of the task.

"Promoting family virtues and promoting social harmony" is the ultimate goal of marriage and family counselors. The basic norms of the construction of socialist family virtues are respecting the old and loving the young, equality between men and women, harmony between husband and wife, diligence and housekeeping, and mutual assistance among neighbors. Marriage and family counselors should carry forward family virtues in every family through their own work, so that each family can develop healthily and promote the harmony of the whole society.