Course description
Counselling Diploma Level 3
Our online Counselling course will help you learn the important counselling skills required to become a counsellor. If you are interested in helping others and enjoy listening, this is the course for you. Become a self employed counsellor on completion of this course, as you will be able to gain insurance and open your own business.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
No prior knowledge or skills in counselling is needed in order to enrol onto this course, making it ideal for those just starting out in this career field.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive certification from Training Qualifications UK (TQUK) and a Learner Unit Summary (which details of all the units you have completed).This course has been designed to meet the requirements of specific learners or employers. It is endorsed by Training Qualifications UK, meaning the course has undergone external quality checks to ensure that they are maintained and delivered to an excellent standard.
Training Qualifications UK are a national certificating organisation. Endorsement of our courses ensures learners have access to high quality materials that cover all learning outcomes, helping them to achieve their potential.
Course Benefits
This course will:
- Help you to develop a strong foundation of knowledge and competency that can be transferred into your work.
- Enable you to study on your own terms – no classrooms, no strict deadlines and no exams.
- Allow you to study from home – all course materials will be sent straight to your door, enabling you to fit your studies around your obligations.
- Challenge your perceptions of Counselling, giving you ample opportunities to demonstrate your competency and comprehension of the course materials.
Training Course Content
Unit 1: Introduction to Counselling
- What counselling is and isn’t
- How counselling differs from other helping skills
- Core skills involved in counselling
- Confidentiality issues
Unit 2: Understanding Feelings of Others
- Exploring the subject of change: its impacts and challenges
- Consideration of Boundaries and Ethics
- Setting goals, planning action – and dealing with resistance
- Ending the counselling skills relationship
Unit 3: Approaches and Models of Helping
- Counselling approaches
- The principles of skilled helping
- The use and effects of questions
- Challenges to clients’ views
Unit 4: Setting Goals
- Supervision: its importance in good practice
- Competence in record-keeping
- The importance of Continuing Personal Development (CPD) and taking care of YOU
- Using your counselling skills
Unit 5: Psychodrama Therapy
- The social atom
- Moreno’s stages of personality development
- Roles and Role Playing
- The auxiliary egos
- Warm up
- Post Action
Unit 6: Post Traumatic Stress Counselling
- Susceptibility to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Causes of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Symptoms of Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Symptoms of Traumatic Stress Disorder in Children
- Treatments for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Unit 7: Counselling and the Law
- The legal implications for counselling
- The Mental Health Acts
- Health and Safety at Work Act 1974
- Risk Assessment
- Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance Act 1969
- General Data Protection Regulations
- The Freedom of Information Act 2000
Course delivery details
For online based courses, you will study your course and submit work online. Paper based courses are the same as online, but with additional printed study packs sent to you.
Our online Counselling endorsed course will help you learn the important counselling skills required to become a counsellor. If you are interested in helping others and enjoy listening, this is the course for you.
Become a self employed counsellor on completion of this course, as you will be able to gain insurance and open your own business!
- FREE Business Start Up Course worth £95 included.
Studying our counselling course from the comfort of your own home provides you with the skills, principles and ethical qualities required to become a competent and successful counsellor.
In this Counselling course you will:
- Begin by developing good practice in a counselling setting, whilst learning how to build a relationship between counsellor and client
- Examine the ethics and moral issues with the counselling process
- Understand the important of self-development, reflecting on sessions and being self-aware as a counsellor.
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