Certificate in Counselling

Certificate in Counselling

This popular, multimedia course will give you a firm foundation in counselling skills. If your job involves helping others, or if you simply want to be supportive to others, then you'll learn techniques that will help you be more effective in that role.

Your course provides a comprehensive overview of counselling. It is designed to provide a practical understanding of counselling knowledge, skills and practice used by professional counsellors.

Using Gerard Egan's three-stage model, outlined in his book ‘The Skilled Helper', the syllabus takes a problem management and opportunity development approach to helping.

The course material is supplemented by short practical exercises and case study assignments marked by your personal tutor.

On completion you will be able to observe and become conversant with many of the practical techniques employed by professional counsellors.

Your Tuition

One of the key aspects to successfully completing your course is the quality of your tuition. All STT tutors are experienced in teaching by distance learning and have been specially trained by us to help you.

Your tutor for this course will be qualified to at least degree level or equivalent with postgraduate training in counselling. Their primary aim is to encourage you to develop your own personal style when using counselling skills with clients.

There are five assignments to complete and you have to pass each one to qualify for your Certificate in Counselling. But don't worry about this. If necessary you can re-take an assignment free of charge.

We have brought together a professional tuition service and an up-to-date, authoritative course so that you can work towards a Certificate in Counselling. Not only will you gain a recognised qualification, but you'll also gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of the methods used to help people in their time of need.

Certificate in Counselling Synopsis

Section 1: Theories and Models of Counselling

1. Introduction to Counselling Theory - What Do Counsellors Actually Do? - Why Have Theory? - Some Practical Problems - Counselling and Psychology - Historical Overview of Counselling Theory - Schools of Counselling Theory - Counselling Theories and Models.

2. The Psychodynamic Approach - The Pioneering Work of Sigmund Freud - Basic Concepts of Freud's Work - What is the Psyche Like? - Anxiety - Defence Mechanisms - Normal Development - Freud on Sexual Development - Working Psychodynamically

3. The Behavioural Approach - Overview of the Behaviourist Approach to the Theory of Personality - Pavlov: Classical Conditioning - Radical Behaviour - What is Personality? - Conditioning of Emotions - B.F. Skinner: ‘Operant' Behaviourism - Reinforcement - Eysenck Neurosis - Behavioural Insights for Counselling.

4. The Person-Centred Approach - Carl Rogers - Basic Concepts of Person-Centred Theory - Healthy and Unhealthy Functioning - Summary of Personal Functioning - Core Conditions - Egan's Three Stage Skills Model.

5. The Cognitive Approach - Cognitive Therapy Defined - Origins of Cognitive Theory - Comparisons between Cognitive and other Counselling Theories - Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy - Characteristics of Irrational Beliefs - Implications of REBT for Counselling - ABC Framework - REBT: D&E Factors - Reality Therapy.

6. The Pastoral Approach - Introduction to Pastoral Counselling - Pastoral Counselling Model 1: The Client as a Living Human Document - Pastoral Counselling Model 2: The Life of the (Soul) Client - Pastoral Counselling Model 3: The Three-Stage Integrative Mode.

Assignment 1

Section 2: Counselling Process, Skills and Practice

7. The Counselling Process - Definitions of Counselling - Counselling Vocabulary - Clinical and Pastoral Counselling - Counselling as Distinguished from other Approaches - Person-Centred Counselling - Development of Core Conditions - Client-Focused Activities.

Assignment 2

8. Basic Counselling Skills - Specific Counselling Skills - Key Concepts - Advanced Empathy - Advanced Empathic Highlights/Educated Hunches - Counselling Skills Audio - Three Key Understanding Skills - Skilled Helper Exercises - Self-Counsellor.

Assignment 3

9. Care Skills of The Skilled Helper - The Middle Stage - Goal-Setting and Decision-Making - Force-Field Analysis - Commitment to Goals.

Assignment 4

10. Professional Practice - Ethical Framework for Good Practice in Counselling (BACP) - Confidentiality - Boundaries and Referral - Supervision - Continuing Professional Development.

Assignment 5

Your Certificate

On the successful completion of your course you will be awarded a Certificate in Counselling from STT and The Institute of Counselling.

Certificate Of Continuing Professional Development In Counselling

On successful completion of your course you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Continuing Professional Development issued by the Institute of Counselling. This Certificate is in addition to the Certificate in Counselling and will be sent free on request.

Follow-on Training

This course gives you the grounding you need so you can go onto study the Certificate in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

Plus, your Certificate in Counselling course is the first module for the Diploma in Grief and Bereavement Counselling. Should you wish to further your studies with this Diploma you will be able to do so without having to repeat the training you've already completed. Please contact student services for more information.

Guarantee

Because we have full confidence in the quality of the course, you can inspect it for 15 days before committing to your training. If you are not completely satisfied with it, or you feel the training is not right for you, then just return the course materials, in good condition, within 15 days.

Start Studying Right Away When You Enrol Online

Anyone can enrol on this course. You do not need any special qualifications or background and you can start whenever it suits you.

There is no fixed enrolment date so you can start as soon as you are ready. Plus, you can study where and when you like - in the UK or abroad, at home, in the library or at work.

And, by enrolling online you can be studying in just five minutes. The first sections are available as soon as your payment has been accepted.

Your course materials are sent to you by post and should arrive within seven working days in the UK or 28 working days if you are overseas.