Advanced Counselling Level 4 Award Course – Endorsed

Learners will complete 7 units of study in total as listed below.

Unit 1: Models of Therapy

• Analytic Psychology – Carl Jung
• Dreams
• The Psyche
• Dynamics
• Psychoanalytic Psychology
• The Oedipal Crisis
• Freud’s Theories
• Therapeutic Method
• Behaviourism
• Humanistic Psychology
• Carl Rogers
• Erikson
• Cognitive Behavioural Approaches

Unit2: Types of Therapy

• Gestalt
• Person-Centred Therapy
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
• Schema Therapy
• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
• What Techniques Do DBT Therapists Employ?

Unit 3: Working as a Counsellor

• Work Settings
• Regulation
• Communication
• Common Problems
• Barriers to Communication
• Effective Communication
• Communicating with Children
• Goal Setting

Unit 4: Power, Listening and Progress

• Being Assertive
• Good Practice
• Empathy
• Oppression
• Power
• Monitoring Progress
• Reflection

Unit 5: Professional Practice

• Ethics and Dilemmas
• Good Practice
• Benefits and Issues of Registration and Accreditation
• Professional Liability Insurance
• Setting Up a Private Practice
• Professional Witness / Expert in Court
• Accountability

Unit 6: Crisis work, Disorders and Illness

• DSM
• Self-Harm
• Suicide
• Abuse and Trauma
• Working with Specific Issues
• Eating Disorders
• Depression
• Stuttering
• Cancer
• Dissociate Disorders
• Schizophrenia

Unit 7: Useful Strategies: Therapist’s Toolbox

• Tools and Interventions

Learners will be required to complete a series of tutor marked assignments ( normally 1 after each unit) as they progress through this course. Each assignment will contain a variety of tasks/questions. These assignments are assessed by your tutor to monitor progress. You will be provided with constructive feedback to help you in completing each unit to the required standard.