Course description
What is counselling? Counselling can take all sorts of different forms, depending on the persons needs and what type of therapy may be suitable. Most therapy will be planned and occur in regular sessions. People can see a counsellor on their own, but they can also see them with family, partners, or with a group of people with a similar issue. During the session, the counsellor may run through specific exercises to help with the problem, or they may just make the person(s) talk more generally about how they're feeling. The therapist will be impartial but they will also be understanding. They will give options and information on what things may help the problem, but they won't tell them what they should think or do. During this Counselling Studies QLS Level 4 course, you will explore the development of counselling and psychology, the psychodynamic approach, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), and much more. As well as providing an excellent knowledge base in counselling, this bundle is ideal for: • Learners who are working in a counselling role and want to boost their knowledge and skills • Those who want to kick-start their career in counselling This bundle 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 Studies Level 4 qualification, here are just a few of the jobs you could explore (depending on your credentials):
- Mental health counsellor
- School counsellor
- Grief counsellor
- Marriage and family therapist
- Rehabilitation counsellor
Course Content
Advanced Counsellor and Psychotherapist QLS Level 4
Unit 1 Defining counselling and psychotherapy
- Theoretical perspectives
- Development of counselling and psychotherapy
- Similarities and differences between counselling and psychotherapy
- Counselling and psychotherapy in context
Unit 2 Core values and skills in counselling and psychotherapy
- Building the client-therapist relationship
- Competency skills
- Communication
- Applications of skills
- Transference and counter transference
- Monitoring generic skills
Unit 3 Models and approaches in counselling and psychotherapy
- The psychodynamic approach
- Humanist/person-centred approach
- Personal awareness
- Experiential focusing
- Behavioural and cognitive approaches
- Using behavioural methods
- The systems model
- The psychosocial/life stage model
Unit 4 Counselling specialities
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
- Assessments Strategies and Skills in CBT
- Relationship counselling
- Family counselling
- Bereavement counselling
- Addiction counselling
Unit 5 Psychotherapy specialities
- Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
- Brief therapy
- Transactional analysis (TA)
- Gestalt therapy
Unit 6 Practitioner strategies
- Business issues
- The therapy contract
- The psychotherapists responsibilities
- Health, safety and regulations
- Client assessment
Unit 1 Review of CBT skills and theory
- Aims of CBT
- Basic cognitive principles
- The triadic structure of CBT
- The therapeutic relationship
- CBT Delivery
- CBT Assessment
- Core skills
Unit 2 Case conceptualisation and measurement
- Describing problems
- Past history
- Formulation
- Measurement
- The Socratic Method
- The client as therapist
- Models of memory
Unit 3 Physical techniques and behavioural experiments
- Behaviour experiments
- Discussion about methods
- Planned behavioural experiments
- Physical Techniques
Unit 4 Depression and anxiety disorders: models and protocols
- Depression
- Therapeutic considerations
- Suicidal thoughts
- Anxiety
- Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
- Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Panic disorder
- Phobias
Unit 5 Wider developments in CBT practice
- Eating disorders
- Trauma
- Anger
- Psychosis
- Relationships
- Substance misuse
- Common core themes
- Alternative methods of delivery
- Group CBT
- Schemata
- Compassion-based CBT
- Mindfulness-based CBT
- Group work
Unit 6 Evaluating CBT practice
- Why evaluate CBT?
- Using statistics
- Questionnaires
- Evaluation of services
- Supervision
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
Unit 1 The counselling relationship and basis for addictive behaviour
- Exploring substance misuse
- Review of counselling skills and theory
- Psychodynamic approach
- Behavioural and cognitive approach
- Humanist approach
- What is dependence?
- Theory specific to substance dependence
- The counselling relationship: ethical considerations
Unit 2 Substance abuse
- Classification and effects of psychoactive drugs
- Some background physiology
- Working with substance misusers
- Assessment and approach
- Basic assessment criteria
- Initial session suggestions
Unit 3 Alcohol abuse
- Introduction and discussion
- Models and approaches
- Pathological components of alcohol misuse
- Working with people who have alcohol related problems
- The twelve-step approach
- Specific issues
- Counselling tools
- Challenges
- Alcoholism
Unit 4 The cognitive approach
- Theoretical perspectives
- Pavlov and Skinner
- Behaviour and learning review
- Case formulation
- Analogies
- Modelling
- Role reversal
- Imagery
- Problem-solving skills
- Behavioural tasks
- Ending the CBT programme
Unit 5 The psychodynamic approach
- Theoretical perspectives
- Karl Jung
- Object relations and ego psychology
- The psychodynamic model in substance and abuse counselling contexts
- Brief psychodynamic therapy
Unit 6 The person-centred approach
- Rogers and the person-centred approach
- Maslow's hierarchy of needs
- The existentialist approach
- Case studies
- Discussion about the person-centred approach
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