Basic Counselling (70262)

Aims to provide you with practical counselling skills and techniques, provides you with relevant theoretical counselling models and paradigms from psychology. Will enable you to act as intermediary between people in need of counselling and professional support services.

Focuses on, among others, basic counselling principles and skills such as person-centred communication, the process of helping, values underlying the counselling process, and practical issues such as the structure/stages of the interview/ counselling process.

Content:

• PCOU016 - Theoretical Training
  • Introductory issues in counselling
  • Psychological theories, such as Rogers, Erikson, Glasser and Maslow
  • Characteristics of the counsellor
  • Counselling and psychotherapy
  • Ethical aspects of counselling
  • Human development: characteristics of development, developmental phases, factors that influence development and theories of development
  • Psychological health and behaviour
  • Communication: self-concept and communication style, effective communication and listening skills
  • Conflict: effect on relationships, conflict and anger, styles of conflict and styles of conflict management
  • Changing attitudes, unethical influence, controlling relationships and mind control
• PCOU028 - Practical Training
  • Criteria for counselling in practice
  • The counselling process: elements in counselling
  • Therapeutic skills and techniques
  • The underlying causes of emotional problems
  • Practical counselling with role players
  • Practical workshop where skills are demonstrated
  • A practical assignment   a therapeutic interview