Counselling Skills - Intermediate (II)

Counselling Skills - Intermediate (II)

Course info

This course will help you to discover how to use counselling micro-skills - including methods of telephone counselling and techniques for dealing with specific crisis situations - to improve your counselling. This course is ideal for those who have already gained the basic counselling skills covered in Counselling Skills (I), and want to further develop their ability to counsel others. Those involved in community services will also benefit from this course.

What will you achieve from this course?

After completing Counselling Skills – Intermediate (II) you will have an understanding of the dynamics of the counselling process including such phenomenon as present experiences, feedback, transference, counter-transference, projection and resistance.  You will also have the knowledge necessary to respond appropriately to emotional and practical crises and encourage people to cope with depression, deal with grief and avoid suicide.

Lessons:

•     The Counselling Session - how micro-skills come together
•     Focus on the Present - present experiences, feedback, transference, projection, resistance
•     Telephone Counselling - non-visual contact, preparation, initial contact, use of micro-skills, overall process, debriefing, types of problem callers
•     Dealing with Crises - defining crisis, types of crisis, dangers of crisis, counsellor’s responses and intervention, post-traumatic stress
•     Problem - Solving Techniques I - Aggression
•     Problem-Solving Techniques II - Depression
•     Problem-Solving Techniques III - Grief and Loss
•     Problem-Solving Techniques IV - Suicide

Course Delivery

This course is able to be completed either online or by correspondence.

Work Load  | Full time: 12hrs per week |  Part time: 6hrs per week |  Total Duration 100hrs

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