FdSc
Diploma
Health & Wellbeing
Therapeutic Counselling Level 4 Diploma
Overview
What You'll Study
Overview
Practitioner status is given to you by this qualification, allowing you to conduct yourself as a counselling practitioner. The Diploma enables you to build your therapeutic counselling skills and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of counselling in a therapeutic setting.
You will be given an opportunity to build counselling skills within organisational and ethical frameworks, and to consider a diverse clientele within society and the impact of counselling for clients. A 100 hour supervised placement, combined with research, theory and self awareness, will equip you to meet the demands of employers in a demanding yet exciting profession.
What You’ll Learn
Skills learnt during the course:
- Self awareness: self reflection and self development
- Research skills (searching for credible sources, using Google Scholar, ResearchGate, filtering and refining results, basic skills in reading research to determine methods, findings, discussion and application to practice)
- Active listening, empathic responding, acceptance and emotional attunement, questioning skills, emotional intelligence
- Risk discussion and safety planning
- Group work skills: diplomatic communication, conflict resolution, listening and responding, awareness of group dynamics and roles
- Developing ethical decision making
Entry Requirements
- The Level 3 Certificate in Counselling must have been passed prior to starting the course.
Study Options
Part time over 70 weeks, with a September only intake.
What You'll Study
Professional organisational issues in counselling
Counselling in a diverse society
Advanced counselling skills
Counselling theory
Research methodologies
Self-awareness for counsellors
Counselling placement (100 hours of client contact)