Counselling Skills A (Introduction) Online Course
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Counselling Skills is an online course that entails the practical and psychological side of the counselling process. Through this program, you will learn the following:
- Underlying theories of counselling
- Understand a broad range of counselling techniques beneficial for anyone working with people in a social, workplace or recreational environment.
- Apply the counselling techniques in your day to day life.
Learn counselling skills in the comfort of your own home through our distance learning setting. Develop an understanding of the fundamental practical skills used in counselling. Completion of this course will equip you to conduct counselling sessions.
Our lessons are self-paced and run for a duration of 100 hours, after completion, you will then gain a certificate in COUNSELLING SKILLS A.
Course Aims:
- Explain the processes involved in the training of counsellors in micro skills.
- Explain how to commence the counselling process and evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.
- Discuss both content and feeling, and their appropriateness to the counselling process.
- Demonstrate different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.
- Demonstrate how to use various micro-skills including summarising, confrontation, and reframing.
- Demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.
- Explain how counselling a client can improve their psychological well-being through making choices, overcoming psychological blocks and facilitating actions.
- Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.
Detailed Course Outline
This course is made up of a number of lessons or units. Each of these has self assessment questions, a set task (practical homework) and an assignment which you can upload online.
There are 6 lessons in this course:
- Communication in Emerging Relationships
- Self-Awareness and Communication Goals
- Communication Patterns in Relationships
- Influences on Relating Behaviour and PBL
- Communication Techniques and Skills
- Maintaining Relationships
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.
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Our courses are self paced. You set your own study schedule to fit around your life. Study from home on any device, at anytime!
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Can I Study from Home?
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Help! I'm Not A Digital Native!
Don't Panic! It's ok, many of our students left school a long time ago, and many others are still new to online learning. We will help you each step along the way from enrolment, course access, completing your first module, getting your feedback and contacting your support tutor. We understand that it might not feel familiar to you, but we're here to help. -
Can I take a Study Break?
Study with us is self-paced so that should generally be fine. But if you’ll be taking a few months off, it is best to contact Student Services so we can put your account on hold. We allow a one-time course suspension (free of charge) of up to 6 months, depending on the student’s course end date. -
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We accept enrolments all year round, thus our motto “Anytime, Anywhere”. Students can start their course upon enrolment or put it off at a later date. However, please do note that the courses have set end dates. If you’re starting at a later date, please let us know. -
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Yes, please scroll down to the bottom of the page for all of our payment options. - Is the Course Self Paced?Yes this course is self paced. Work at your speed through the material. We have found students do best when submitting only one assignment at a time and waiting for feedback before submitting the next. We allow 24 months duration within which you may finish the course within your own timeframe.
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There are a lot of options for online learning, and we’re glad that you’ve decided to look into Careerline. We want to be your go-to learning spot, so we’ll make you these promises:
You’re never just a number. You’re a student with goals and challenges and we want to help you in any way we can.
Your goals matter. Whether you’re just starting a new hobby or trying to transform your career, your goal is important and it’s worth your time and our devoted attention.
When you reach out, we respond. You’re wondering right now, “Will they take my money and disappear?” When you join, you are part of the family. Need something? Just contact us and we’ll get right back to you. Have questions, concerns, or feedback about your learning? We love talking about learning, and we love talking to our customers, so we can’t wait for you to get in touch.
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Our Courses
First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical! You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.
All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.
This sets our students up for success.
- 100% Online
- Practical
- Certificate issued on completion
- 1-on-1 tutor support
- Flexible payment options
- Self paced study
Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video. Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important! Our courses will help you do all that.
We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise. But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.
Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.
First and foremost our courses are 100% online courses BUT they are still very practical! You will learn many practical skills, do some research, field trips and much more.
All learning is best done by doing, so our online courses are designed to give you the foundation knowledge you need and to get you out there and doing whatever it is that you love.
This sets our students up for success.
- 100% Online
- Practical
- Certificate issued on completion
- 1-on-1 tutor support
- Flexible payment options
- Self paced study
Getting where you want to go with your studies and/or career, involves much more than just reading or watching a video. Knowing how to learn, how to research and find out new information, how to judge if the source of information is any good and how to find out what is happening in your industry and creating a network are vitally important! Our courses will help you do all that.
We have mini self assessment tests so that you can be the judge of how well you understand the material and then a set task where you will undertake some form of practical exercise. But best of all is the one-on-one expert tutor feedback you get with each task you submit.
Online study can by difficult but our tutors are there to help you every step of the way.
