TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills

This TQUK Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills course assesses the following units:

Unit 1: Developing self-understanding and personal qualities

• Identifying your own values and beliefs
• How values and beliefs could affect helping relationships
• Motivation for helping others
• Blocks to listening and learning
• Benefits of giving feedback for personal development
• Identifying strengths in the helping relationship
• Areas for development
• Developing skills and qualities as a counsellor

Unit 2: Identifying and accessing support

• Support needs for counsellors
• Accessing support
• Using personal and professional support to highlight issues in counselling
• Observations, thoughts, feelings and concerns when using counselling skills
• Benefits of self-reflection

Unit 3: Core counselling skills

• Core counselling skills
• Using core skills in counselling
• Effective communication
• Boundaries in counselling relationships
• Conduct of the counsellor
• Objectives of a new helping relationship
• Strategies for ending relationships
• The impact of a helping relationship ending

Unit 4: Demonstrating counselling skills

• Counselling skills in a helping relationship
• Commentary from the case study
• Assessment tips

Unit 5: Introduction to counselling skills and theories

• Key elements of counselling theories
• Childhood experiences
• Alfred Adler
• Carl Jung
• Object relations theory and ego psychology
• Key elements of person-centred theory
• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
• Key elements of cognitive behavioural theory
• B.F. Skinner and operant conditioning
• The ABC Model
• Key differences between theories
• How counselling theories underpin the use of counselling skills

Unit 6: Diversity and ethics

• Ethical frameworks
• Key aspects of ethical frameworks
• How ethical frameworks inform counselling skills
• Experiences of discrimination
• Considering discrimination
• Anti-discriminatory practices and legislation
• How diversity impacts counselling relationships
• Addressing differences in counselling skills practice

This course can be taken over a 12 month period but you can complete it as fast or as slowly as you wish.

To pass this course learners must pass 4 units set by the awarding body which have been broken down into 6 sections on the course. These are completed by navigating through the corresponding lessons and writing your answers to assignment questions. Once these have been read and marked by your personal tutor, feedback and marks are provided to students which contain helpful tips to improve work in future assignments.

The course contains 5 assignments that are written and 1 that requires you to carry out a practical counselling session. This practical session can be done with a friend or family member who is playing the role of a client and must be recorded then uploaded to the online campus. To be able to complete this recording you will need to use a video camera or smart phone with a video and audio function so students should have access to this equipment in preparation for the course.