ABOUT THE COURSE
YOUR CAREER IN CRISIS COUNSELLING
Passionate about helping people through different crises in their life? The Certificate in Crisis Counselling teaches you all practices and methods to effectively intervene, counsel and assist clients in those challenging time.
You will be guided through both short-term strategies to prevent immediate mental health damage and long-term improvements. This online course is ideal for support workers who wish to broaden their counselling expertise as well as those who plan to have a career in the helping industries.
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
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.
