The Study On The Competency Of Counseling Psychologist

The purpose of study: People feel a greater psychological pressure, they relieve stress through the scientific ways, improve the life and quality of life with China’s rapid economic development, this makes this emerging occupation about "counselor" in our country has been rapid development.Presently the reality is the quality is worried, although the number of psychotherapists are growth rapidly in recent years in China.Psychological consultation is a strong professional job with normative, so the society needs more counselor they have high level of competence into the mental health utilities.The study survey the differences of each dimension between demographic variables with developed "Self-rating psychological competence scale",on this basis, Strive to improve professional quality and provide reference to China’s counseling psychologist.The object and method of study:This research use the method of investigation to investigate on493psychotherapists they have obtained certificate and167participants taking part in the training of psychotherapists in Jiangxi province to analysis the status quo of psychological competence;This research use SPSS17.0and LISREL8.7two kinds of statistical software for data to analysis and process.The results of study:1.The "Self-rating psychological competence scale" compilated has a good reliability and validity. In which counselor competence contains5dimensions:occupation,motivation,personality, interpersonal communication, knowledge, professional skills;2.In general, the counselor competence need to be improved on further;3.The gender has no significant difference in counselor competence scores and each dimension however, there are significant differences in the body about the age. the educational level, the professional background, the psychological level,the consultation work in psychological.the part-time, the supervision, a different working years they had received, counseling duration weekly;4.The demographic variables influenced the counselor’s competency.In addition, motivation, personality, interpersonal communication, knowledge and professional skills are influenced psychological competence at different levels, therefore, counselor competence can be improved through targeted training.