Modules
Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills
Unit 1
Introduction to Counselling Skill Theories
- The significance of Counselling Theory
- Competences to use core Counselling skills
- Using Counselling skills to establish a helping relationship
- Communicating empathic understanding
- Using range of counselling skills to facilitate the helping interaction
Unit 2
Diversity and Ethics in using Counselling skills
- Ethical framework of Counselling
- Using Counselling skills safely in variety of context and roles
- Establishing and sustaining boundaries
- Establish the nature and limits of confidentiality
Unit 3
Counselling skills and personal development
- Self-awareness and self-understanding
- Working within personal limits of ability
- Explore and challenge personal issues, fears and prejudices
- Difference between character and personality and how this drives behaviour
Unit 4
Seven helping and Counselling processes
- Client factors
- Counsellor factors
- Relational factors
- Treatment factors
- Professional factors
Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Skills
Unit 1
Ethical framework for counselling
- Understanding of ethical framework and legal procedures
- Working within limits of proficiency
- Client assessment and ethical referral
- Confidentiality and Integrity
Unit 2
The Counselling Relationship
- Nature and constraints of the counsellor
- Boundaries of the counsellor role and counselling practice
- The counselling relationship and the counselling work
- Stages of the counselling relationship
Unit 3
Differences and diversity issues in Counselling
- Awareness of diversity issues
- Range of diversity issues in wider social context
- Diversity issues within personal relationships
Unit 4
Defining the main theoretical approaches to counselling
- Psychodynamic theory
- Cognitive behavioural theory
- Person-centred theory
- The integrative model
Unit 5
Theories of counselling and mental health
- Identifying and understanding common mental health problems
- Research on mental health issues
- Promoting positive mental health
- Use counselling theory to understand and help the client
Unit 6
Working within a user-friendly approach to counselling
- Establishing the client’s needs and expectations
- Maintaining focus on client agenda and needs
- Use of sensitivity to identify client’s needs
- Importance of listening to client’s agenda
Unit 7
Using feedback, reflection and supervision to support counselling studies
- Use feedback from others to develop an understanding of counselling
- Give constructive feedback to other counselling trainees
- Describe the nature and use of clinical supervision
Use supervisee skills.