Award achieved: ABC Awards and Certa Award Certificate of achievement at QLS Level 4
This distance course is designed to do two things. Firstly, to introduce you to a range of conditions, problems, and issues that counsellors will have to work with. These include things like addiction, mental illness, and personal crises. In addition, it will also provide you with some of the tools, techniques, and theoretical knowledge that you can use to help people deal with these problems.
Secondly, the course will take you through the practical considerations and steps that you will need to take in order to become a counsellor: setting up in private practice, gaining the appropriate insurance, getting registered, and other things connected with the actual experience of being a counsellor. This course is a first step on the path to becoming a counsellor, not the last.
Unit 1: Models of Therapy
Analytic Psychology – Carl Jung
Dreams
The Psyche
Dynamics
Psychoanalytic Psychology
The Oedipal Crisis
Freud’s Theories
Therapeutic Method
Behaviourism
Humanistic Psychology
Carl Rogers
Erikson
Cognitive Behavioural Approachs
Unit2: Types of Therapy
Gestalt
Person-Centred Therapy
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Schema Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
What Techniques Do DBT Therapists Employ?
Unit 3: Working as a Counsellor
Work Settings
Regulation
Communication
Common Problems
Barriers to Communication
Effective Communication
Communicating with Children
Goal Setting
Unit 4: Power, Listening and Progress
Being Assertive
Good Practice
Empathy
Oppression
Power
Monitoring Progress
Reflection
Unit 5: Professional Practice
Ethics and Dilemmas
Good Practice
Benefits and Issues of Registration and Accreditation
Professional Liability Insurance
Setting Up a Private Practice
Professional Witness / Expert in Court
Accountability
Unit 6: Crisis work, Disorders and Ilness
DSM
Self-Harm
Suicide
Abuse and Trauma
Working with Specific Issues
Eating Disorders
Depression
Stuttering
Cancer
Dissociative Disorders
Schizophrenia
Unit 7: Useful Strategies: Therapist’s Toolbox
Tools and Interventions
Study Method
The course is designed for study by distance learning at work or at home. Students receive course manual, assignments and study guide plus tutor support by mail and email. You can start at any time and plan your studies over a period of up to one year from the time of enrolment.
Course Duration
Students may register at any time and have a full year to complete their studies. The course will take around 100 hours of study to complete.
Assessment
Each unit is followed by a written assignment (comprising a portfolio of evidence of learning), which is submitted and then marked by your tutor.
Course Endorsement
At the end of this course successful learners will be given the option to receive a Certificate of Achievement from the Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Kendal Publishing Ltd has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 4 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed by Kendal Publishing Ltd to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. The Quality Licence Scheme endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group , a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.
The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through our awarding organisations we have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. We are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.
Our knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables us to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.
*Regulated qualification refers to those qualifications that are regulated by Ofqual / CCEA / Qualification Wales
