Certificate in Counselling (Counseling) Skills

This is a comprehensive short course in counselling skills for those who help people either voluntarily or in the course of their job, vocation or profession.

This course focuses on such issues as the nature of the counselling relationship, what to do and what not to do, the process of listening, and when to reveal one’s own feelings. It also provides a useful overview of professional diagnosis by psychologists or psychiatrists, and of what every helper should know about mental health diagnosis, drugs and alcohol, seriously disturbed people, depression, stress, personality disorders, counselling persons with sexual problems, HIV/AIDS patients, suicide, death and emergencies.

UK students will receive a free textbook - overseas students will need to buy the book separately from an on-line bookstore or their usual supplier.