Counselling Children and Adolescents QLS Level 4

Counsellors encourage clients to explore their feelings, understand their situations better and make positive changes to their lives. This course helps you develop these skills with children and young people specifically in mind. During the course you will explore the history of counselling, before looking at approaches within cognitive behavioural therapy and different counselling techniques. as well as much more. All course materials will be delivered to you by post or via email, so it couldn't be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors will help you every step of the way by email. This course is approved by the ACCPH (Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists and Hypnotherapists), at the end of this course students will be able to join and become a member of the ACCPH. The ACCPH is an independent self-regulated professional body for counsellors, psychotherapists and hypnotherapists. What next? There are several avenues you can go down once you have successfully completed this course. You could take a look at our other counselling  courses, or you could further your education by studying a counselling degree at university. If you want to work in counselling using your Counselling Children and Adolescents Level 4 qualification, here are just a few of the jobs you could explore (depending on your credentials):

• School counsellor
• Social worker
• Family therapist
• Recreation therapist
• Rehabilitation therapist

Awarding body This course has been endorsed by the Quality License Scheme for its high-quality. The Quality Licence Scheme, endorses high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course and/or training programme has been endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme for its high-quality, non-regulated provision and training programmes. This course and/or training programme is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. Your training provider will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the Learner FAQs on the Quality Licence Scheme website.

Course Content

Unit 1 History of counselling

• History of counselling
• Theories and theorists
• Jung
• Rogers
• Skinner
• Ellis
• Maslow

Unit 2 Childhood and children

• Defining childhood
• Historical perspective of childhood
• Child development related to counselling
• Language
• Cognitive structure and input
• Vision
• Hearing
• Socialisation
• Attachment
• Bowlby's theory

Unit 3 The cognitive approach

• Approaches within cognitive behavioural therapy
• The ABC Model
• The triadic structure of CBT
• The Socratic method
• Counselling techniques
• Further cognitive strategies
• Organising sessions and programmes
• Reading emotional feelings in behaviour
• Behaviour and beliefs

Unit 4 The person-centred approach

• Background
• The inner self
• PCT process
• PCT application
• PCT and transference

Unit 5 The therapeutic relationship and ethics

• The child-counsellor relationship
• Ethics for counselling
• BACP ethical framework
• CPCAB model of service levels
• Legislation and consent

Unit 6 The therapeutic environment

• The play therapy room
• Selecting media
• Imagination
• Setting up a practice