Accredited Certificate in Counselling Children & Adolescents

Follow five universal guidelines in child therapy: encourage the child to speak, support their speech, develop communication skills, motivate participation in activities, ensure mutual understanding, and provide emotional support.

Develop rapport as the highway between counselor and client, enabling information to reach and be processed. Employ prep, nonjudgmental listening, empathy, disclosure with care, and a warm, safe, unrushed environment.

Reflect the client's words accurately to clarify understanding, mirroring voice and emotions with body language, and sometimes using deflection to interpret context, while maintaining a secure bond.

Paraphrasing recaps the client's material in your own words, showing you pay attention, invite correction, and reflect the power of their words to build empathy.

Focusing directs the conversation in a counselling interview, guiding attention to individual, family, or main theme issues, including mutuality and cultural context, to shape solutions and perspectives.

Collect and analyze information through assessment to recognize and address client issues in counseling, guiding diagnosis, goal setting, and treatment planning across health care, private practice, and schools.

Develop skills in open-ended and closed-ended questioning to guide counselling with children and adolescents, inviting self-exploration while avoiding overuse that signals counselor control.

Explore the seven stages from resistance to autonomy in client change within person-centered counselling, highlighting unconditional positive regard, empathy, and listening to understand for a trusting relationship.

Bullying and child abuse stem from lack of family and social support and mental health problems; diagnosis relies on talking with the child and parents, with CBT treatment option.

Address the causes and signs of stress in children, from abusive parents and loss to a new environment, and outline diagnosis and treatment with family dialogue and anti anxiety drugs.

Identify causes of depression in children, including disturbed life events, impaired health, disability, or family history. Seek diagnosis by a licensed child psychologist; consider antidepressants or cbt for suicidal ideation.