PGDip COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

Postgraduate

In London

£ 2,110 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    3 Years

This long-established and hugely popular course is fully accredited by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).

It is designed to provide training in an integrative approach to counselling and psychotherapy. It will enable you to develop your own synthesis within a framework which is not tied to a particular theoretical school or perspective. We follow current research into what actually works in counselling and psychotherapy, which means we use an integrative approach, employing a variety of techniques to respond to the needs and preferences of individual clients.

Typically, students on this course will have first degrees in other subjects, and they may be employed either part-time or full-time.

You may be working in health, social care or education – but you don’t have to be.

This course (two years for the Diploma) is ideally suited to those with a part-time job, although it can also work for those with full-time commitments. The basis of study for the Postgraduate Diploma is one afternoon/evening per week.

The two-year Postgraduate Diploma allows you to practice as a BACP registered counsellor. Completion of the diploma confers automatic entry to the MA Counselling and Psychotherapy final year which is a popular choice for our students. (Only the Masters is eligible for a student loan from SFE.)

The Postgraduate Diploma entails completing 100 hours of supervised work, which will be undertaken on a placement which you have to secure for yourself. However, the School has established links with many agencies and practices where our students have worked over the years.

Facilities

Location

Start date

London
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Docklands Campus, University Way, E16 2RD

Start date

On request

About this course

The course is designed to provide an education and training in an integrative approach to psychological counselling and therapy to a level appropriate for safe, ethical and effective practice.

Topics of study on the Diploma, which constitutes the BACP-accredited training course, include: theory and practice of counselling and psychotherapy; models for integration; theoretical frameworks (for example, person-centred, cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and gestalt); and professional and clinical studies – including the BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice.

You will also engage in practical skills training, personal development and clinical supervision. You will also study social context/multiculturalism and common client presenting problems, including mental health issues.

Minimum 2.1 Honours in any discipline
We would normally expect you to have Grade C in GCSE English and Maths.

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Subjects

  • Psychotherapy
  • School
  • Approach
  • Accredited
  • Writing
  • Part Time
  • Full Time
  • Counselling and psychotherapy
  • Approaches to theoretical
  • Technical Integration
  • Core Model
  • Transtheoretical Integrative

Course programme

MODULES

Year 1 - Module 1 - Counselling and Psychotherapy: Self, Skills and Theory 1 and 2

Main topics of study:

  • Core Model and approaches to theoretical and technical integration
  • Transtheoretical Integrative Process Model (Core Model)
  • Core Model theory: themes and stage related skills and strategies, therapeutic alliance; application of theory to practice
  • Assessment and therapeutic planning
  • Boundaries, contracting and beginning, ending, process and outcome goals
  • Case notes and legal issues
  • Social context and multiculturalism
  • Journal writing
  • Transition and Life Span development
  • Coping with stress; assertiveness
  • Personal therapy; Open circle; Peer Support Groups
  • Core and generic skills; qualities, attitudes and values
  • Interpersonal Process Recall and reflection as an integral part of practice
  • BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice
  • Clinical supervision
  • Client work placement

Year 2 - Module 2 - Counselling and Psychotherapy: Application and Integration

Main topics of study:

  • Alternative approaches, for example, person-centred, cognitive-behavioural, mindfulness based cognitive therapy, gestalt, solution focus, and narrative.
  • Principles and mechanisms of change
  • Integrating concepts and techniques
  • Common client presenting problems, for example, anxiety, depression, phobias, chronic insomnia, suicide, PTSD and critical incidents debriefing
  • Myers Briggs Type Theory and clinical practice
  • Ethical decision making
  • Other mental health practitioners
  • Laboratory skills practise and audio/video recording commentary, analysis and evaluation
  • Beginning, developing and ending client work contracts
  • BACP Ethical Framework for Good Practice
  • Client work
  • Clinical supervision

Year 3 - Module 3 - Counselling and Psychotherapy: Research

Main Topics of Study:

  • Research methodology – mainly qualitative
  • Writing a project proposal
  • Conducting a literature review
  • Ethical issues in research/applying for ethical approval
  • Academic supervision
  • Academic peer support/study groups
  • Writing a research project or dissertation
  • Reflection on experience
  • On-going clinical work and supervision

PGDip COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

£ 2,110 VAT inc.