Do you already have some counseling skills, but would like to be able to improve, enhance, and take them further? If so, then Counseling Skills B is the right course for you. This specific program covers topics on the following:
- telephone counseling,
- online counseling,
- techniques for dealing with crisis situations,
- understand micro-skills and using them in the counseling process.
- learn about the grief process, how we can support clients, the ethical issues of counseling and much more.
Through this home study program we have designed to cater to your needs as a distance learner. Our lessons are self paced and run a duration of 100 hours, after completion, you will then gain a certificate in COUNSELLING SKILLS B.
Pre-requisite: Introduction to Psychology
Follows on from: Counselling Skills A
Course Aims:
- Demonstrate the application of micro skills to different stages of the counselling process.
- Role-play the dynamics of the counselling process including such phenomenon as present experiences, feedback, transference, counter-transference, projection and resistance.
- Demonstrate telephone counselling techniques.
- Develop appropriate responses to crises, both emotional and practical. Show ways of encouraging the client to deal with aggression.
- Demonstrate different ways of encouraging the client to cope with depression.
- Discuss strategies for dealing with grief.
- Develop different strategies of helping suicidal clients.
Detailed Course Outline
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- The Counselling Session
- Focus on the Present
- Telephone Counselling
- Dealing with Crises
- Problem-Solving Techniques I: Aggression
- Problem-Solving Techniques II: Depression
- Problem-Solving Techniques III: Grief and Loss
- Problem-Solving Techniques IV: Suicide
When you have completed the lessons of your Certificate course, you will be given the option of taking the optional exam. It’s okay if you don’t want the exam, we still issue your Careerline Certificate. For Advanced Certificates however, the exam is compulsory (per module) and are included in the course fee.