This Counselling Skills Learning Programme is designed to help learners achieve learning outcomes of the 12 study Modules as mentioned below: 

 

1.     Ethical Framework for Counselling Professionals

2.     What is Counselling:  Introduction to Counselling

3.     Areas of Counselling Practice

4.     Understanding Theories:  Theoretical Perspectives in Counselling

5.     Culturally Appropriate Counselling:  Anti-Discriminatory (ADP) & Anti-Oppressive Practice (AOP) in Counselling

6.     Counsellors and Self-Awareness

7.     Self-Unfoldment:  Spiritual Model of Self-Awareness

8.     Self-Exploration:  Techniques in Self-Awareness

9.     Self-Exploration for Counsellors

10.   Counselling Skills

11.   Six-Category Counselling Intervention

12.   Preparing for Counselling Practice

 

LEARNING UNITS

The course is divided in following 6 learning units.  Each unit has several learning outcomes and criteria for assessment, which are discussed in detail later in this booklet. 

Unit 1:  Introduction and appreciation of Ethics of Practice

UNIT 2:  Introduction to Counselling and its fields of     practice

UNIT 3:  Developing Counselling Skills

UNIT 4:  Familiarisation with Counselling Theories

UNIT5:   Anti-discriminatory, Anti-Oppressive & Culturally    appropriate practice

UNIT 6:  Self-Awareness and Personal Development

 

The delivery of the learning programme consists of five main component parts i.e.

 

1.   Taught Programme (TP) of 144 Hours,

2.   Personal Study (PS) of 70 Hours,

3.   Multiple Days Learning Workshop for 96 hours,

4.   Co-Learning Sessions (CLS) minimum 20 hours

5.   Supervised Counselling Practice Sessions (SCPS) (minimum 50 hours)

 

The total of 380 hours will be spent by individual learner to complete this training programme of study.