Part time Counselling Skills & Theory Further Certificate
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In Tonbridge
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Tonbridge
This course is for those who wish to become involved in counselling, in either a professional or voluntary capacity. Offering the opportunity for participants to examine their own personal development and enhance their self-awareness, students will learn a range of counselling skills and methods and how they can be applied. Course aims. Personal development: To increase the awareness of.
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About this course
Candidates enrolling on the course will have had a minimum of 36 hours certificated counselling training. There is a minimum age requirement of 25 years. Acceptance onto the course is subject to a successful interview with the course tutor.
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Course programme
Counselling Skills & Theory Further Certificate
This course is for those who wish to become involved in counselling, in either a professional or voluntary capacity. Offering the opportunity for participants to examine their own personal development and enhance their self-awareness, students will learn a range of counselling skills and methods and how they can be applied. Course aims
- Personal development : To increase the awareness of personal development and its importance in counselling.
- Methods : To investigate some of the counselling methods and their use in context, with particular emphasis on person-centred counselling.
- Issues in counselling : To examine ethical and other counselling issues.
- Skills : To practice skills appropriate to the counselling process. Please note that there is a minimum age requirement of 25 years for this course.
- Self-awareness and self-evaluation
- Values, beliefs and personal boundaries
- Trust and confidentiality
- Empathy
- Sharing
- Disclosure
- Managing change
- Taking personal responsibility
Course Content:
The course comprises the following four elements: Personal development This will include:
- Counselling relationships
- Client /Counsellor responsibility
- Self-actualising and positive change
- Contracting
- Confidentiality
- Record-keeping
- Conflicts in loyalties and values
- Implications of personal and social relationships with clients
- Power in counselling
- Dependency
- Boundaries
- Challenging
- Empathic understanding
- Immediacy
- Self-disclosure
- Goal-setting
- Problem analysis
- Decision-making
- Confrontation
- Other skills associated with person-centred counselling
Awarding body:
Open College Network (OCN).
Entry Requirements:
Candidates enrolling on the course will have had a minimum of 36 hours certificated counselling training. There is a minimum age requirement of 25 years. Acceptance onto the course is subject to a successful interview with the course tutor.
Entry Process:
An interview with the course tutor will be arranged at the earliest opportunity after receiving your application.
Assessment:
Please see Specific Course Content for details of assessment for each element. All work is subject to internal and external verification. Students must satisfactorily complete all assessment criteria in order to successfully complete the course.
Career Options:
This course offers a progression route to the Colleges Progressive Personal Awareness course or Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Counselling, should a student wish to proceed and be accepted.
Fees
Year : Description : Under 19 : Over 19 & on benefits : Over 19 : Overseas
09/10 : Tuition : £0.00 : £0.00 : £430.00 : £720.00
09/10 : Material : £10.00 : £10.00 : £10.00 : £10.00
09/10 : Exams : £0.00 : £0.00 : £40.00 : £40.00
09/10 : Trips : £0.00 : £0.00 : £0.00 : £0.00
09/10 : Kit : £0.00 : £0.00 : £0.00 : £0.00
Fees subject to change please enquire on application. For courses lasting more than one year, please note that the fees given above are for the first year only. Similar fees will be due for each subsequent year of the course and will be subject to an inflationary increase on the first year fees.
Sessions
Year : Full or Part-time : Level : Start date : End date : Day : Start time : End time
09/10 : PT : Further Education : 10/9/2009 : 11/3/2010 : Thursday : 18:00 : 21:00
09/10 : PT : Further Education : 4/1/2010 : 19/7/2010 : Monday : 18:00 : 21:00
09/10 : PT : Further Education : 19/4/2010 : 19/7/2010 : Monday : 18:00 : 21:00
09/10 : PT : Further Education : 6/1/2010 : 14/7/2010 : Wednesday : 10:00 : 13:00
09/10 : PT : Further Education : 4/1/2010 : 19/7/2010 : Monday : 10:00 : 13:00
09/10 : PT : Further Education : 23/4/2010 : 6/8/2010 : Friday : 10:00 : 13:00
Part time Counselling Skills & Theory Further Certificate