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Professional Practice in Counselling

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It will help you to develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures within the counselling profession. Students will also gain knowledge of the self, personality and emotions and their effect on the counselling process as well as being introduced to some of the most common disorders. It also covers personal growth, psychometric testing, referral procedures and more.

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Type Course Duration 100 Hours
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Suitability Do you work in counselling? Are you thinking of setting up your own professional practice? This is the course for you.
Course objectives It will help you to develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures within the counselling profession. Students will also gain knowledge of the self, personality and emotions and their effect on the counselling process as well as being introduced to some of the most common disorders. It also covers personal growth, psychometric testing, referral procedures and more.
Requirements
It is assumed that students will have some previous experience of psychology, particularly our Introduction to Psychology course.
Price £253 + VAT
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Course programme

Professional Practice in Counselling
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE IN COUNSELLING
This is a very valuable course for people interested in pursuing a career in counselling or wishing to set up their own practice.
It is assumed that students will have some previous experience of psychology, particularly our Introduction to Psychology course
Some further information on the Course -
Course Duration:  100 hours
Course Structure
The course is divided into seven lessons as follows:
  1. Understanding Counselling:
    • The client-counsellor relationship
    • Effective counselling
    • Counselling the counsellor
    • Counsellor's values
    • Multicultural counselling
  2. Ethics & Confidentiality:
    • Needs
    • A code of ethics
    • Informed consent
    • Right to privacy
    • Legal requirements
    • Use of psychometric tests
    • Ethics and multiple relationships
    • Keeping records.
  3. Understanding the Self:
    • Self-awareness
    • Self-monitoring
    • Self-concept
    • Social Perception
    • Attribution theory
    • Implicit personality theory
    • Relationships
    • Social exchange
    • Love and intimacy.
  4. Personality:
    • What is a healthy personality?
    • Trait approach
    • Psychodynamic approach
    • Humanistic approach
    • Social learning and cognitive approaches.
  5. Emotions & Behaviour:
    • What are emotions?
    • Emotions and Counselling
    • Effect on communication
    • Aspects of emotions
    • Emotional expression and counselling.
  6. Supervision:
    • Why supervision?
    • Working with others
    • Quantity and effectiveness of supervision
    • Personal counselling
    • Dependency
    • Types of supervision.
  7. Referral Practice:
    • Counselling v mental health issues
    • Secondary care counsellors
    • Abnormal psychology
    • Anxiety
    • Depression
    • Schizophrenia
    • Personality disorders
WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE
  • Explain why a counsellor needs to be open to personal growth.
  • Discuss personal qualities that are beneficial to a counsellor.
  • Discuss how the counselling of a counsellor can be of benefit to their personal effectiveness'
  • Describe how a counsellor's own values can impose on the counselling process'
  • Outline the importance of an ongoing education and an awareness of other cultures.
  • Demonstrate an awareness of other useful counselling qualities.
  • Discuss the importance of having a 'code of ethics' in counselling.
  • Describe what is meant by 'informed consent'.
  • Discuss the extent to which the client has a 'right to privacy'.
  • Understand when and how psychometric tests may be used.
  • Describe how to keep client records.
  • Discuss how the counsellor's own sense of self-awareness can affect the counselling process.
  • Describe how self-perception can influence identity, roles and self-actualisation.
  • Define schemas, scripts, and attributions and their influence on social-perception.
  • Discuss the effect of attractiveness, closeness and similarity on relationships.
  • Discuss the effect of different levels of self-disclosure on the counselling relationship.
  • Describe symptoms of relationship breakdown.
  • Define a 'healthy personality'.
  • Discuss the effect of nature and nurture on personality.
  • Describe the use of 2 different personality tests.
  • Compare and contrast 2 different approaches to personality and their application to the counselling process.
  • Discuss what is meant by emotions.
  • Describe the effect of emotions on communications.
  • Define different aspects of emotions including: physiology, cognition and behaviour.
  • Demonstrate ways in which emotional expression can affect the counselling process.
  • Discuss different methods of supervision of counsellors.
  • Describe how dependency can evolve in the counselling process.
  • Discuss the importance of upgrading skills and ongoing supervision.
  • Outline methods of observation used in supervision.
  • Discuss the counsellor's responsibility to the client.
  • Explain what might be considered as abnormal.
  • Define symptoms of commonly encountered disorders 
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    Do you work in counselling? Are you thinking of setting up your own professional practice? This is the course for you. It will help you to develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures within the counselling profession. Students will also gain knowledge of the self, personality and emotions and their effect on the counselling process as well as being introduced to some of the most common disorders.  It also covers personal growth, psychometric testing, referral procedures and more.....
    Pre-requisites: It is assumed anyone undertaking this course will already have a basic grounding in psychology and counselling, at least equivalent to the "Introduction to Psychology" course offered through this school.
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ACS Distance Education is a world-wide distance learning college offering a wide range of high quality distance learning courses in subjects such as psychology, horticulture, creative writing, journalism, agriculture, organics, hydroponics, nutrition and much more..
Advantages of studying with ACS Distance Education
ACS Distance Education is a reputable provider offering distance learning courses worldwide. *High quality courses *Continually updated and improved *Many courses available as postal, CD-Rom or online. *Tutor support via phone, email, fax or post. *Recognised qualifications *Highly experienced tutors. *Efficient administrative support *Student room *Online library *Book shop    
Course provider history
ACS Distance Education originated in Australia in 1979, since then it has grown and developed and now has sites in the UK and America, offering courses world wide.
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Psychology, horticulture, agriculture, creative writing, journalism, crops, education, science, statistics, health, healthy buildings, nutrition, children's nutrition.

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