Diploma in Addiction Counselling

The Institute of Counselling was founded in 1985 as a Christian based, not for profit independent educational body. It is committed to promoting pastoral care throughout the services it provides.

The Aims of the Institute of Counselling are:

The Institute provides a wide range of counselling and related courses. Students enrol with assurance and confidence on our quality courses, which are fully backed by the experience and resources of the Institute of Counselling.

In its early years the Institute offered only courses in Clinical and Pastoral Counselling, within a pastoral context. Since 1985, over 18,000 students from the UK and overseas have enrolled on these courses.

In recent years, has also produced a selection of further courses which follow the clinical person-centred approach developed by Carl Rogers and others.

The Institute is committed to providing counselling skills training to all who will benefit from the courses. On this basis a non-discriminatory policy is operated with regard to students' background, culture, ethnic origin, gender, age or creed.

Diploma in Addiction Counselling

Addiction counselling is one of the fastest growing counselling services in the UK. This is your opportunity to gain a qualification that will enhance your career and counselling
practice. You will be able to add ‘Addiction Counselling’ to your CV and/or counselling practice.

This Diploma course has two modules:
Module 1: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Module 2: Addiction Counselling

Module 1 will give you a solid foundation to build your addiction counselling studies on.

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is based on the premise that our interpretation of an event is crucial in determining how we feel and react. Where beliefs and thought patterns are negative or unrealistic, a variety of problems may occur leading to possible emotional disorders. CBT aims to alleviate emotional distress. CBT has proved to be very effective in treating clients who have addiction issues.

Module 2—Addiction Counselling:

1. The nature of addictions.
2. Drug & alcohol addiction.
3. Gambling addiction.
4. Food and spending addictions.
5. Sexual addiction.
6. Internet Addiction.
7. Using CBT to treat addictions.
8. CBT in action - case studies.
9. Addiction counselling.
10. Addiction referral networks and resources.

The diploma course includes current research, lists of textbooks and websites. Dynamic graphics and photos fully illustrate the advanced skills used in addiction counselling.

The course consists of two modules, 20 lessons, 10 assignments, and a textbook.

Upon successful completion of the two modules you will be awarded the Diploma in Addiction Counselling.

This diploma course will be of specific interest to those of you who are
working in the Healthcare professions. It will also be relevant to people in
social work areas, teachers, those of you in pastoral work and mature
students.

The advanced module, containing 10 lessons, deals with various forms of
addiction and outlines the warning signs of each; in each case treatment options are explained. You will receive detailed guidelines on advanced counselling skills.