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YOUR CAREER IN COUNSELLING
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The role of the counsellor is to facilitate the person’s resolution of these issues, whilst respecting their values, personal resources, culture and capacity for choice. Counselling can provide people with a regular time and space to talk about their problems and explore difficult feelings in a confidential and dependable environment.
LEARN ADVANCED COUNSELLING SKILLS
Micro-skills are the tools of the trade for counsellors. They are the techniques which counsellors use to help clients find solutions for dealing with their problems. Nevertheless, just understanding micro-skills is not necessarily enough. In this fascinating course students are encouraged to hone their micro-skills and apply their understanding to a range of real-life problems which any counsellor may have to deal with.
Course Details
Study Duration / Course Delivery:
This advanced online course takes approximately 300 hours to complete, but you have lifetime access to suit your self-paced learning.
Study Method:
100% Online
Start Date:
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Fees & Charges:
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Core Modules
1. Learning specific skills
- What is Counselling
- Perceptions of Counselling
- Differences between Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists
- Counselling Theories
- Empathy
- Transference
- Directiveness, non-directiveness
- Behavioural Therapies
- Systematic Desensitisation
- Positive Reinforcement and Extinction
- Goals of Psychoanalytic Approach
- Defence Mechanisms (Repression, Displacement, Rationalisation, Projection, Reaction Formation, Intellectualisation, Denial, Sublimation)
- Use of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalytic Techniques
- Analytic Framework
- Free Associations
- Interpretation
- Dream Analysis
- Resistance & Transference
- Humanistic Therapy
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Therapies and Counsellors
- Case Studies
- Methods of Learning
- Micro Skills
- Triads
- Modelling
- Online and Telephone Counselling
- Telemental Health
- Clinical Considerations
2. Listening & bonding
- Scope of Listening and Bonding
- Meeting and greeting
- Creating a Safe Environment
- Location
- Time and Duration of Sessions
- Privacy in Telephone and online counselling
- Showing warmth on the phone
- The contract
- Helping the client relax
- Listening with intent
- Minimal Responses
- Non Verbal Behaviour
- Use of Voice
- Use of Silence
- Case Studies
- Active Listening
- Dealing with Silent Phone Calls
3. Reflection
- Non Directive Counselling
- Paraphrasing
- Feelings
- Reflection of Feeling
- Client Responses to Reflection of Feelings
- Reflection of Content and Feeling
- Case Studies
4. Questioning
- Open & Closed Questions
- Other types of Questions (Linear, Information seeking, Strategic, Reflective, Clarification, etc.)
- Questions to Avoid
- Goals of Questioning
- Identification
- Assessment
- Intervention
- Case Studies
5. Interview techniques
- Summarising
- Application
- Confrontation
- Reframing
- Case Studies
- Perspective
- Summary
6. Changing beliefs and normalising
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Changing Self-Destructive Beliefs
- Irrational Beliefs
- Normalising
- Case Studies
- Designing a Questionnaire
7. Finding solutions
- Moving Forward
- Choices (Reviewing, Creating, Making choices)
- Facilitating Actions
- Gestalt Awareness Circle
- Psychological Blocks
- Case Study
8. Ending the counselling
- Terminating the session
- Closure
- Further Meetings
- Dependency
- Confronting Dependency
- Chronic Callers
- Terminating Silent Phone Calls
- Silent Endings
- Case Study
- Other Services
9. The Counselling Session
- How micro-skills come together
10. Focus on the Present
- Present experiences
- Feedback
- Transference
- Projection
- Resistance
11. Telephone Counselling
- Non-visual contact
- Preparation
- Initial contact
- Use of micro-skills
- Overall process
- Debriefing
- Types of problem callers
12. Dealing with Crises
- Defining crisis
- Types of crisis
- Dangers of crisis
- Counsellor’s responses and intervention
- Post-traumatic stress
13. Problem-Solving Techniques I: Aggression
- Expressing anger
- Encouraging change
- Role-play
- Externalising anger
14. Problem-Solving Techniques II: Depression
- Blocked anger
- Referral practice
- Chronic depression
- Setting goals
- Promoting action
15. Problem-Solving Techniques III: Grief and Loss
- Loss of relationships
- Children and grief
- Stages of grief
16. Problem-Solving Techniques IV: Suicide
- Ethics
- Reasons for suicide
- Perceived risk
- Counselling strategies
- Alternative approaches
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Career Opportunities
This certificate opens up the gateway for you to seek employment in various businesses, some career outcomes may require further training and /or qualifications.
- Counselling
- Psychotherapy
- Youth work
- Crisis support work
- Social work
- Case management
- Community outreach support
- Peer support
- Primary/Secondary school welfare officer
PRIMARY/SECONDARY SCHOOL WELFARE OFFICER
SOCIAL WORK
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