Care Counselling for Children (Level 2 Award)

Care Counselling for Children

The Level 2 Award in Care Counselling for Children course is divided into eight comprehensive modules:

Unit 1: Introduction to care counselling
- Explain the importance of counselling
- Explain communication and its role in counselling
- Demonstrate understanding of the different forms of counselling.
- Conduct a counselling session.

Unit 2: Ethical and cultural issues in counselling
- Explain why children hold a special position in society and discuss their rights and needs.
- List ethical values associated with counselling children.
- Discuss the impact of culture and gender in counselling.
- Explain the role of the carers values and attitudes in counselling.
- Identify some of your own deeply held beliefs and values and describe how they might influence a counselling decision

Unit 3: Behavioural counselling
- Define behavioural counselling.
- Describe factors involved in effective behavioural counselling and guidance; understanding self, understanding and learning about children, creating a positive environment.
- Recognise types of problem behaviour and identify strategies to deal with them.
- Explain the importance of referrals and collaboration with relevant individuals and agencies.

Unit 4: Dealing with child abuse issues
- Identify and describe various forms of child abuse.
- Identify signs and characteristics of an abused child.
- Explain the various coping strategies employed by survivors of abuse.
- Develop effective intervention programmes for abused children.
- Outline the referral system available for abused children in your community

Unit 5: Dealing with substance abuse
- Describe substance abuse and identify substances that are abused
- Describe signs/symptoms in children who abuse substances
- Explain the consequences of substance abuse
- Identify strategies that assist children who abuse substances
- Organise a programme for the prevention of substance abuse
- Identify available referral networks for substance abuse.

Unit 6: Counselling for the affects of HIV/AIDS
- Explain what the HIV/AIDS virus is, how a person can be infected by it, and what symptoms he/she may experience.
- Explain cultural beliefs and practices that contribute to HIV/AIDS.
- Identify children who are infected by HIV/AIDS and provide help to them through counselling.
- Design activities which will help you to communicate when counselling children and youths infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.
- Identify available networks and resources for referral of children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS.

Unit 7: Grief Counselling
- Define loss, bereavement, grieving and mourning
- Outline the process of grieving
- Explain the role of culture in bereavement
- Identify strategies that you can use to help children and youths who have suffered the loss of a loved one

Unit 8: Career and Vocational Counselling
- Differentiate between a career, a vocation, and life skills.
- Identify sources of information and disseminate information on careers and life skills.
- Discuss gender biases and stereotypes in vocational and career choices and suggest ways of eliminating them.
- Recognise the talents of children and youth.
- Advise youth on career programmes and help them to plan for these.

COURSE ASSESSMENT
This course is marked through a process of continuous assessment guided by your tutor following standard guidelines. This means that your qualification will be awarded according to your performance on assessments rather than by taking an exam.

Upon verification of the activities, exercises and assignments, a certificate of achieavement will be awarded by the national awarding organisation ABC Awards, as confirmation that your written work has met all of the learning outcomes and assessment criteria for the programme.

COURSE DURATION
We recommended you spend approximately 90 hours of your time studying for the Care Counselling for Children course. The pace of study is completely up to you. To give an example, if you dedicate 2 hours a week to the course it would take you a year to complete but if you could spare 4 hours a week you could complete it in six months.

COURSE FEES

Our aim is to provide you with the best deal available, therefore registration fee, certification fee and full tutor support is included in the course price for you. The enrolment fee for the Care Counselling for Children home study course is £368.75, though for a limited time we are offering you the opportunity to pay only £295 which is a 20% discount if you enrol online and pay in full.

You can also opt for our Easy Payment Plan and enrol online today by paying a deposit of £73.75 and then 4 equal payments of £73.75 per month. The first instalment is paid about a month after you receive your course.