Counselling Techniques Level 3 Certificate Course

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy l - Freud, Erikson, Jung
   • Value and relevance of psychotherapy
   • Emergence of psychoanalytical theory
   • Principles of psychoanalytical theory
   • Elements of the personality
   • The notion of conscious and unconscious
   • Anxiety and psychoanalysis
   • Inbuilt psychological coping and damage repair mechanisms
   • Defense mechanisms
   • Freuds psychosexual theory and Eriksons psychosocial theory
   • Jung's perspective on personality
   • Archetypes
   • Recent developments in psychoanalytical theory
   • Goals of psychoanalytical approach
   • Psychoanalytic techniques
   • Analytic framework
   • Free associations
   • Interpretation
   • Dream analysis
   • Resistance
   • Transference
   • Psychoanalytic approach and counselling
   • Personality disorders
   • Critique for psychoanalytic theory
2. Psychoanalytical psychotherapy ll - Adler
   • Alfred Adler
   • Adler's key concepts
   • Inferiority vs superiority
   • What makes people self interested
   • Social interest and community feeling
   • Individual psychology
   • Psychological types: ruling type, leaning type, avoiding type
   • Sibling relationships
   • Only child
   • First child, second child, youngest child
   • Use of adlerian theory
   • Applications to counselling
   • Freud and Adler
   • Critique
3. Humanistic/Existential approaches I - Gestalt Therapy; Fritz Perls
   • Introduction
   • Human nature
   • Holistic approach
   • Field theory
   • Figure-formation process
   • Organismic self regulation
   • Focus on the present
   • Resolving dilemmas
   • Personal maturity
   • The effect of contact
   • Effect of energy
   • The experiment
   • Confrontation
   • Gestalt techniques: Internal dialogue, reversal, rehersal, exaggeration, dream work, etc
   • Critique
4. Humanistic/Existential approaches II - Person-Centred Counselling; Carl Rogers
   • Humanistic therapy
   • Principles of person centred approach
   • Personal attitude of the counsellor
   • Goals of therapt
   • Assessment techniques
   • Areas of application
   • Critique
5. Rational behavioural therapy - Albert Ellis
   • Rational emotive behaviour therapy (REBT
   • Ellis's view of human nature
   • Personality theory
   • Goals and techniques of therapy
   • Therapeutic techniques
   • Cognitive techniques
   • Emotive techniques
   • Use of REBT
   • Critique
6. Cognitive behavioural therapy - Aaron Beck
   • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and REBT
   • Premises of CBT
   • Cognitive distortions
   • Use of cognitive therapy
   • Family therapy
   • Modifications to CBT
   • Stress innoculation training program (SIT)
   • Stages of SIT
   • Constructivist modification
7. Behavioural therapy
   • Contempory behavioural therapy
   • Behavioural approach
   • Goals ant techniques
   • Goals of therapy
   • Use of behaviour therapy
   • Basic ID
   • Critique
8. Solution-focused counselling
   • Introduction
   • Strategies in solution focussed counselling
   • Engaging the client
   • Constructing pathways for change
   • Generating creative solutions
   • Critique