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This Relationship Counselling online course takes approximately 300 hours to complete, but you have lifetime access to suit your self-paced learning.

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• Communication in Emerging Relationships
  • Introduction
  • Problems in relationships
  • Stages in relationships
  • Interpersonal communication
  • The communication process
  • Principles of communication
  • Communication filtered through perceptions
  • Verbal communication
  • Non-verbal communication
  • Communication responsibility
  • Ineffective communication
  • Signs of relationship breakdown
  • Effective communication
  • Abuse and violence in relationships
• Self-Awareness and Communication Goals
  • Introduction
  • Negative communication
  • Self-awareness
  • Setting the stage for change
  • Good communication is thoughtful
  • Intent
  • Awareness
  • Recognising reactive patterns
  • Relationship goals
• Communication Patterns in Relationships
  • Negative patterns of communication
  • Aggressive patterns
  • Victim patterns
  • Avoidance patterns
  • Thought, feeling and action cycle
  • Thoughts and feelings differentiated
  • Emotions (feelings)
  • Patterns of thought
  • Behaviour (Actions)
  • Action skills
  • Communicating intent
• Influences on Relating Behaviour and PBL
  • Influences on communication
  • Environmental influences; family, culture, social, other
  • Global factors
  • Communicating and changing interpersonal needs
  • Changing expectations and needs
  • Adult psychological development
  • Erikson’s psychosocial stages
  • PBL to create and plan a counselling intervention for a couple who are experiencing relationship difficulties.
• Communication Techniques and Skills
  • Introduction
  • Triads
  • Listening
  • Paraphrasing
  • Reflective responses; emotions
  • Reflective responses; content
  • Guidelines to prevent inauthentic listening
  • Open questions
  • Message statements or requests
  • Self-disclosure
  • Encouraging clients to learn communication
• Maintaining Relationships
  • Introduction
  • Kinds of, and stages in relationships
  • Factors to help maintain relationships
  • Agreements or contracts
  • Praise and gifts for service
  • Relationship nurturing communication
  • Straight talk
• Psychoanalytic psychotherapy I – Freud, Erikson, Jung
  • Value and relevance of psychotherapy
  • Emergence of psychoanalytical theory
  • Principles of psychoanalytical theory
  • Elements of the personality
  • The notion of conscious and unconscious
  • Anxiety and psychoanalysis
  • Inbuilt psychological coping and damage repair mechanisms
  • Defence mechanisms
  • Freud’s psycho-sexual theory and Erikson’s psychosocial theory
  • Jung’s perspective on personality
  • Archetypes
  • Recent developments in psychoanalytical theory
  • Goals of psychoanalytical approach
  • Psychoanalytic techniques
  • Analytic framework
  • Free associations
  • Interpretation
  • Dream analysis
  • Resistance
  • Transference
  • Psychoanalytic approach and counselling
  • Personality disorders
  • Critique for psychoanalytic theory
• Psychoanalytical psychotherapy II – Adler
  • Alfred Adler
  • Adler’s key concepts
  • Inferiority vs superiority
  • What makes people self-interested
  • Social interest and community feeling
  • Individual psychology
  • Psychological types: ruling type, leaning type, avoiding type
  • Sibling relationships
  • Only child
  • First child, second child, youngest child
  • Use of Adlerian theory
  • Applications to counselling
  • Freud and Adler
  • Critique
• Humanistic/Existential approaches I – Gestalt Therapy; Fritz Perls
  • Introduction
  • Human nature
  • Holistic approach
  • Field theory
  • Figure-formation process
  • Organismic self-regulation
  • Focus on the present
  • Resolving dilemmas
  • Personal maturity
  • The effect of contact
  • Effect of energy
  • The experiment
  • Confrontation
  • Gestalt techniques: Internal dialogue, reversal, rehearsal, exaggeration, dream work, etc.
  • Critique
• Humanistic/Existential approaches II – Person-Centred Counselling; Carl Rogers
  • Humanistic therapy
  • Principles of person-centred approach
  • Personal attitude of the counsellor
  • Goals of therapy
  • Assessment techniques
  • Areas of application
  • Critique
• Rational behavioural therapy – Albert Ellis
  • Rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT
  • Ellis’s view of human nature
  • Personality theory
  • Goals and techniques of therapy
  • Therapeutic techniques
  • Cognitive techniques
  • Emotive techniques
  • Use of REBT
  • Critique
• Cognitive behavioural therapy – Aaron Beck
  • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and REBT
  • Premises of CBT
  • Cognitive distortions
  • Use of cognitive therapy
  • Family therapy
  • Modifications to CBT
  • Stress inoculation training program (SIT)
  • Stages of SIT
  • Constructivist modification
• Behavioural therapy
  • Contemporary behavioural therapy
  • Behavioural approach
  • Goals and techniques
  • Goals of therapy
  • Use of behaviour therapy
  • Basic ID
  • Critique
• Solution-focused counselling
  • Introduction
  • Strategies in solution focussed counselling
  • Engaging the client
  • Constructing pathways for change
  • Generating creative solutions
  • Critique

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