Develop your Counselling Expertise

• Online course | Self-paced | Start anytime.
• Develop your counselling skills and knowledge | 8 Lessons | Learn about microskills | Telephone and online counselling | The counselling process | Problem solving strategies | Depression | Suicide | Aggression | Grief and Loss | Coping with a crisis | 
• Demonstrate counselling knowledge and skills through written assignments + practical exercises + self-assessment tests.
• Useful feedback from experienced counsellors and teachers | Decades of experience. 
• Study for professional development | Personal interest.

What You Will Do

• Identify clearly the stages in the counselling process.
• Explain how a counsellor might encourage the client to relax in the first session.
• Demonstrate at what stage the counsellor should bring in micro-skills other than those of minimal responses and reflection of content and feeling.
• Demonstrate at what stage the counsellor should focus attention on the client’s thoughts and why.
• Demonstrate control techniques in conversation, in a role play.
• Correlate certain types of non-visual cues with feelings in a case study.
  • Show how a counsellor could assist a client to consider the present and how this could facilitate the counselling process.
• Demonstrate appropriate use of feedback in the counselling situation.
• Demonstrate inappropriate use of feedback in the counselling situation.
• Distinguish between transference and counter-transference.
• Demonstrate telephone counselling techniques in a role play.
• Describe how to deal with a distressed client (male/female) through telephone counselling.
• Show how to terminate a telephone counselling session.
• Explain the main advantages of telephone counselling.
• Describe techniques to effectively deal with nuisance callers in telephone counselling.
• Evaluate how a crisis was managed by a person, in a case study.
• Outline the main crisis categories.
• Demonstrate different practical responses that might be applied to a crisis.
• Show when it is appropriate for a counsellor to conclude crisis counselling.
• Analyse an aggressive/violent outburst (physical/mental) by an individual; in a case study.
• Explain an aggressive/violent outburst (physical/mental) by an individual; in a case study.
• Demonstrate how a counsellor might encourage a client to appropriately express their anger.
• Explain why it is important that clients become aware of the physiological effects of anger.
• Identify the origin of depression in a case study.
• Explain the origin of depression in a case study.
• Explain the relationship between depression and blocked anger.
• Demonstrate how a counsellor could encourage a client to explore their anger.
• Identify risks involved in dealing with someone with chronic depression.
• Explain the benefits of goal-setting to the counselling process.
• Identify when depressed clients should be referred on to other professionals.
• Evaluate the grieving process in a case study.
• Compare the grieving process in a case study, with the 7 classic stages of grieving.
• Determine which stage of grieving was most difficult in a case study.
• Explain the significance of denial in the grieving process.
• Demonstrate how a counsellor could combat feelings of denial in grieving.
• Explain why it is important for both the client and the counsellor to understand the grieving process.
• Research into suicide, to determine attitudes, information and support services available in the student’s country.
• Discuss a variety of different people’s views on suicide.
• Describe high risk factors to be looked for when assessing the likelihood of a person committing suicide.
• Demonstrate alternative strategies that a counsellor might use to become more aware of a depressed client’s risk of suicide.
• Explain how a counsellor might learn to challenge their own irrational beliefs in order to help a suicidal client.
• Compare working with and working in opposition to a client.

• Improve your communication and counselling skills
• Be an effective communicator.
• Support people experiencing difficulties in their lives
• Learn all this in the comfort of your own home with support from our friendly and highly experienced tutors.
• Improve your People Skills by Study Counselling Skills!

It will also improve your job and career prospects. Studying counselling skills is useful for people who want to train as counsellors, but also anyone who wants to work with people. 

Any Questions?

Our counselling tutors are happy to answer any questions you may have about the course, so please do ask.

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