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The aim of the course Counseling in Social Services is to develop financial competencies of managers and clients of social services with regard to financial literacy as social prevention. The course develops counseling competence in the area of debt counseling for socially disadvantaged families, homeless and unemployed, in social services oriented on prevention of socially pathological phenomena, contact care for children and youth at risk of drug addiction, low-threshold care for children and youth. youth from dys-functional families, managing social work in the field - searching for and helping at-risk groups at risk of crime, homelessness and addiction). It monitors counseling in social services through the perspective of the economic perspective of the provider and user of social services. Students will become familiar with counseling in social services as a mentoring / coaching process. They will understand the relationship between work and the economy and will manage personal financial planning and decision-making, with an emphasis on counseling in social services as one of the forms of financing. They will learn to apply a specific counseling process for the personal future using effective tools to manage their own personal investments and with orientation in personal cash flow (assets and liabilities).