At the Jiaxing Children and Youth Mental Health Service General Station, mental health service professionals are answering the 24-hour psychological and family education consultation hotline. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yu Photo
text丨Shenzhen Special Zone News Reviewer Zhuang Yuan
Can you become a psychological counselor by watching 100 hours of video? The reporter's investigation found that some psychological counseling platforms and institutions charge very high fees, often several thousand yuan, but the level of consultants is of varying quality. Although it is a non-access profession, various psychological counselor training certificates have been "packaged" into "practice qualification certificates". Some institutions claim that as long as you take a class, it only takes a few months to get a certificate to work as a psychological counselor.
Mental health is an important part of health, and physical and mental health is closely related and influences each other. In recent years, as social competition becomes increasingly fierce and the pace of life is accelerating, more and more people suffer from mental illness or mentally sub-healthy, and the epidemic has created a large demand for psychological counseling.
It should be pointed out that psychological counseling is not "spiritual chicken soup". Psychological counseling can not only release bad emotions, relieve psychological distress, and relieve psychological stress, but also help heal and promote public mental health. It can also promote personality improvement, personality reconstruction and personal development, help counselors find direction, take action and enhance self-confidence.
Therefore, is engaged in the psychological counseling industry and requires strict professional training and high professional qualities. Not everyone can do it, let alone chatting casually. When psychological counseling becomes psychological "deception", being deceived or being "injured" by the wallet is still a small matter, and it is difficult for consumers to obtain professional guidance and help. "quick" psychological counselors lack professional abilities, which can easily lead to more "injury" after consultation, and to a certain extent it will also discredit the psychological counseling industry.
is such a mess, it comes from it. Compared with the rapidly growing demand for mental health, there is currently a huge gap in talent for psychological counselors in my country. As early as September 2017, in order to deepen the reform of " deregulation, regulation and service ", the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security canceled the professional qualification certification exam for psychological counselors, which means that psychological counselors no longer have the so-called "hard threshold". Against this background, various psychological industry institutions have increased rapidly, and psychological consulting companies are blooming everywhere, inevitably mixed with fish and dragons and mud. Problems such as low industry popularity, uneven professionalism, lack of behavioral norms, and imbalance in regional development need to be paid attention to and solved urgently.
The top priority is to introduce unified industry standards and service specifications as soon as possible. Psychological counseling industry is an industry that needs to build trust. Only by relying on trust will the client reveal his or her voice to the psychological counseling consultant and cooperate with treatment. The trust-based psychological counseling industry cannot lose its foundation. Only by establishing complete psychological counseling industry standards and service specifications, strengthening training quality supervision and control, cracking down on suspected false propaganda and inducing consumption in accordance with the law, and allowing the psychological counseling industry to get on the right track, can we truly protect the public's mental health.
Mental health is not only related to individual happiness, but also to family happiness and social harmony. In April this year, the General Office of the State Council issued the "14th Five-Year Plan" National Health Plan, proposing to improve mental health services and improve the social mental health service system. Relevant departments should also increase social publicity and guidance, improve the public's correct understanding of psychological diseases and psychological counseling, expand the connotation and scope of public mental health services, and improve the timeliness and popularization of mental health services.
