Recognised Online Psychology and Counselling Diploma Course

• Diploma | Recognised by CMA (Complementary Medical Association) 
• Start anytime. Work at your own pace. 
• Understand more about the principles of psychology  and learn counselling skills.
• 15 modules made up of compulsory and elective modules | Electives include ecotherapy, relationship counselling, creative therapies, aromatherapy etc | Choose modules to suit your needs and interests.
• Assessment - written assignments, practical exercises, self-assessment tests etc | Feedback from university educated psychologists and counsellors | Experienced in teaching and psychology | Online and phone support for any questions.

Modules

Note that each module in the Qualification - Diploma In Counselling and Psychology is a short course in its own right, and may be studied separately.

How can you help a client with dementia? 

In counselling the client with Alzheimer's Disease, it is important to determine triggers which bring about problematic behaviour and to find effective interventions. The counsellor can work with the caregiver to establish an exercise routine for the client to maintain ease of movement and improve patient behaviour and affect. Some useful general guidelines are as follows:

• Provide a structured, regular daily routine.
• Use simple and straightforward language to describe activities before undertaking them.
• Keep tasks simple.
• Let the client dress in their own clothes and retain personal effects.
• Use calendars, clocks, labels, and so on to enable orientation to time.
• Reduce unnecessary stimulation and exposure to crowded environments which may increase agitation and disorientation.
• Reduce brightness from windows and lights, noise from televisions, and environmental distractions.
• Ensure the environment is safe and free from sharp objects, slippery floors, and easy to navigate.
• Use safety locks on doors and windows if necessary.
• Consider using grab bars in bathroom areas.
• Use soft lighting to reduce night time disorientation or restlessness.
• Use distraction and redirection to reengage the client where necessary.
• Provide gentle background music to create a relaxed ambience, particularly at mealtimes and during bathing.

Caregivers may find the three R's: Repeat, Reassure, Redirect to be a useful approach to altering behaviour. This technique will enable them to divert the attention of the client with AD form an undesirable situation toward a more useful activity. An alternative is the ABC's: Antecedent, Behaviour, Consequences, of behavioural analysis. This technique enables insight into the precipitants (antecedents), behavioural interpretations (behaviour) and subsequent reinforcements (consequences) of the client’s behaviour. The caregivers can learn to help the client avoid behavioural triggers which result in undesirable behavioural symptoms. 

Why is this counselling and psychology course useful?

The skills you develop here can serve you well throughout life across a wide range of professions.

The obvious career path for any graduate would seem, and probably is , to become a counsellor. Some of our graduates start their own practice offering counselling services, and are very successful at doing so; but to be a professional self employed counsellor is only one of many places that this course may lead you.

This course will help you develop an insight into other people. In effect, it has the potential to grow your empathic as well as academic understanding of others. In today's world, where jobs are frequently being replaced by technology (eg. robots, computers); most experts agree that the one skill that robots will never replace is human empathy. In any job where you work with people, from marketing to personnel management and teaching to leisure services: empathy matters. An understanding of psychology and counselling will give you skills that are prized and of great value in business or employment anywhere.

• Start a counselling practice.
• Work in welfare, health support or any other role where your primary purpose is to help others.
• Work for a government or other agency, providing counselling support to others.
• Work in academia, research or teaching.
• Work in marketing, personnel management, employment services, or any other situation where a knowledge of human psychology is a key part of the job.

Any Questions?

Our psychology and counselling tutors are happy to answer any questions about the course, so please get in touch.

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