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Our Diploma in Counselling courses have the following aims:
To raise students' awareness of how their own particular experience of life may influence the counselling process both positively and negatively.
To develop the use of counselling skills and to expand the range of skills, working as a person having explored and worked through some of the painful roots and difficulties of no go areas in themselves, their personal history and interpersonal relationships
To understand the theoretical backgrounds to the different counselling models and to acquire an in-depth understanding of at least one model.
To develop and deepen students' understanding of anti-oppressive and non-discriminatory counselling and their commitment to a recognised code of practice and ethics for counsellors.
To understand the legal issues involved when working and practising as a counsellor. This may incorporate working within a multi-disciplinary environment and recognising the implications of specific legislation, e.g. Children Act and Mental Health Legislation.
To understand, accept and be committed to regular supervision of their counselling practice.
To recognise the need for and be committed to ongoing professional and personal development and learning.
By the end of our Diploma in Counselling course students should be able to demonstrate:
An ability and commitment to be a competent professional counsellor. Working safely to provide a safe and supported setting and who values and uses regular structured supervision.
That they have worked sufficiently on their own personal history and interpersonal relating, to be aware of its possible influence on their own counselling practice and be committed to continued personal and professional growth through the appropriate use of supervision and training.
An ability to conceptualise case material arising in the counselling process, i.e. they should not work in a purely intuitive fashion.
An ability to use the counselling relationship itself as a vehicle for change. Working with the client in a therapeutic relationship to explore and work through no-go areas.
An ability to use consistently a predetermined set of skills.
An ability to respect and accept other people's views, attitudes, belief structures and cultures. Working with people who have different assumptions, beliefs, and views. Working with people with difference and diversity.
An in-depth understanding of Carl Rogers's Person-Centred Counselling (The main theoretical model to be delivered on this course is Carl Rogers's Person-Centred Counselling.)
An understanding of other counselling approaches to inform, contrast and complement the in-depth understanding of the main model.
An understanding of the role of research in counselling and an ability to design and carry out a research project.
Content of the course