ABOUT THE COURSE
YOUR CAREER IN CRISIS COUNSELLING
Welcome to the world of Crisis Counselling! This course is your pathway to a meaningful and impactful career in helping individuals navigate through challenging times. Throughout this program, you'll delve into the essential principles, techniques, and best practices required to provide effective support to those in crisis.
From understanding crisis intervention models to honing active listening skills and practicing empathy, our course covers a comprehensive range of topics essential for crisis counselling. You'll learn how to assess risk, provide emotional support, and empower individuals to overcome adversity and regain stability in their lives.
Led by experienced crisis counsellors and enriched with interactive simulations and case studies, our course ensures that you develop the confidence and competence needed to make a positive difference in people's lives during times of crisis. Whether you're embarking on a new career path or seeking to enhance your existing counselling skills, this course equips you with the tools to excel in this vital profession.
Join us as we embark on this journey to provide hope, healing, and support to those in need. Your career in crisis counselling awaits!
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 400 hours to complete from beginning to end, and most students graduate within 12 months.
STUDY METHOD:
100% Online
START DATE:
Intake is open now.
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
- Crisis Counselling
- Trauma Counselling
- Psychotherapy
- Psychology
- Health Professions
- Caring Roles
- Telephone Counselling
CORE MODULES
1. Crisis Counselling
- Understanding methods of crisis intervention
- Ethical, professional and legal issues
- Dangers of crises and effective intervention
- Developmental crises
- Post-traumatic stress disorder
- Violence and sexual assault
- Crisis and drug addiction
- Family crises
- Crises and cultural issues
2. 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
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
4. Grief Counselling
- Nature and Scope of Grief and Bereavement
- Stages of Grief
- Grief and Children
- Grief and Adolescents
- Adjustment to Bereavement
- Abnormal Grief
- Preparing for Grief and Bereavement
- Future Outlook and Long-Term Grief
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ABOUT US
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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.
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