Counselling Skills Certificate CPCAB NVQ Level 2

Counselling Skills Certificate CPCAB NVQ Level 2

Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills CPCAB (CSK-L2)

About the course:

This course is intended for candidates who want to learn how to use counselling skills within an ethical framework for providing helping, mentoring, care planning, teaching, pastoral and other forms of support work in either a voluntary or employed situation. You will be introduced to the Person Centred approach (Carl Rogers) for helping and to the ‘Skilled Helper’ (Gerard Egan) model. You will build on your knowledge and counselling skills practice with tutor guidance, peer feedback and evaluation.

Programme activities:

• Theory seminars, demonstrations, discussion and group work
• Personal development and experiential work
• Essay
• Six sessions of peer helping work carried out in class
• Skills practice sessions involve participation with some personal disclosure
• Tutor and peer assessed skills practice
• Weekly Learning Review of 1 to 2 pages per week
• Self review
• Tutorials

Time on coursework:
Allow about 2 hours outside the course time to do reading and assignments related to the course

Reading for the course:
Counselling Skills & Studies: F B Dykes, B Kopp, T Postings, A Crouch: Sage
First Steps in Counselling Practice: by Pete Sanders. (4th Edition) PCCS

Assessment:
Tutor assessment of candidate portfolio evidencing minimum assessment & criteria requirements

External assessment:
Candidates complete an Assessment Paper within a one week designated time frame. This is sent to CPCAB for assessment. Note that candidates must pass both the External Assessment and the Internal Assessment to achieve the award.

Progression:
Successful completion of this course will give you eligibility for entry on to the Certificate in Counselling Studies (CST-L3).
Progression is subject to a satisfactory course tutor reference and interview.