ABOUT THE COURSE
YOUR CAREER IN THE FIELD OF COUNSELLING
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.
STUDY DURATION:
In this course, you can learn at your own pace, without any fixed due dates or deadlines. You study whenever you have the time and feel motivated to do so. The course typically takes around 300 hours to complete from beginning to end, and most students graduate within 12 months.
STUDY METHOD：
100% Online
START DATE:
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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.
- Primary/Secondary School Welfare Officer
- Social Work
- Crisis Support Work
- Counselling
CORE MODULES
1. Counselling Skills I
- Learning Specific Skills: methods of learning, learning micro-skills
- Listening & Bonding: meeting and greeting, helping the client relax, listening with intent
- Reflection: paraphrasing, reflection of feeling, client responses to reflection of feelings, reflection of content and feeling
- Questioning: open & closed questions, other types of questions, goals of questioning
- Interview Techniques: summarising, confrontation, reframing
- Changing Beliefs and Normalising: changing self-destructive beliefs, irrational beliefs, normalising
- Finding Solutions: making choices, facilitating actions, gestalt awareness circle, psychological blocks
- Ending the Counselling: terminating the session, closure, further meetings, dependency, confronting dependency
2. Counselling Skills II
- The Counselling Session
- Focus on the Present
- Telephone Counselling
- Dealing with Crises
- Problem Solving Techniques I
- Problem Solving Techniques II
- Problem Solving Techniques III
- Problem Solving Techniques IV
3. Counselling Techniques
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy l - Freud, Erikson, Jung
- Psychoanalytical psychotherapy ll - Adler
- Humanistic/Existential approaches I - Gestalt Therapy; Fritz Perls
- Humanistic/Existential approaches II - Person-Centred Counselling; Carl Rogers
- Rational behavioural therapy - Albert Ellis
- Cognitive behavioural therapy - Aaron Beck
- Behavioural therapy
- Solution-focused counselling
ABOUT US
Courses4me
Courses4me is the leader in online education with decades of experience in both public and private education.
Our founders have a combined 30 years of expertise in education and training and have joined forces to deliver high-quality, low-cost education to anyone wishing to advance their career.
IS COURSES4ME ACCREDITED?
Yes. All of our courses are endorsed by the IARC (www.iarcedu.com) and accredited by ICOES (www.icoes.org). ICOES has an independent board of management that ensures that the Foundation operates in accordance with its purpose. It has an Advisory Board consisting of independent professors who developed and implemented the Accreditation Standards, a quality charter that is used for the annual review of prospective and existing accredited course providers.
