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Specialist Certificate in Counselling Skills
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(10 ratings)
50 students

Specialist Certificate in Counselling Skills

An accredited and certified specialized 8-module program for those interested in learning counselling skills.
Created byMichael Thong
Last updated 1/2022
English

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate an understanding of core counselling skills and concepts consistent with a Person-Centred approach
  • Competently use the skills of attending, observing, listening, and responding appropriately during a counsellor-client consultation
  • Critically reflect upon personal values and counsellor attributes
  • Discriminate and rate the different levels of effective and ineffective responses accurately, and discern unhelpful or inappropriate counselling behaviours
  • Critique and evaluate one’s own counselling responses and set goals for improvement.

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 7h 58m total length

  • Introduction to Counselling as a Profession41:29

    In this topic, learners will study about the basics of counselling, including the working alliance and therapeutic goals.

    Content covered:

    1. Definition of Counselling

    2. Counselling vs Therapy

    3. The Working Alliance

    4. The Goals, Outcomes, and Uncertainties

  • Ethics in Professional Practice1:31:43

    In this topic, students will learn about ethics, values, and moral theories. They will evaluate professional ethics, and how to carry out professional ethics.

    Content covered:

    1. Ethics, Values and Moral Theories

    2. Professional Ethics

    3. Law and Ethics

    4. Confidentiality

    5. Dual and Multiple Relationships

  • Developing Counselling Goals—Questioning Skills, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing47:35

    In this topic, students will attempt to apply basic counselling skills, such as questioning, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

    Content covered:

    1. Questioning Skills

    2. Paraphrasing

    3. Summarizing

  • Dealing with Emotional Intensity—Skills of Reflecting Feelings and Listening48:35

    In this topic, learners will evaluate and attempt to apply reflection skills and listening skills.

    Content covered:

    1. Reflecting

    2. Reflection of Feelings

    3. Emotions and Feelings

    4. Reflective Listening

    5. Attending Skills

    6. Reflecting Skills

    7. Five-Stage Counselling Session

  • The Art of Practice of Counselling—Skills of Focusing, Exploring, & Challenging51:10

    In this topic, students will attempt to examine focusing skills. They will also learn about genograms, and study advanced counselling skills.

    Content covered:

    1. Focusing

    2. Genograms

    3. Empathic Confrontation

  • Influencing: Skills of Reflecting Meaning, Reframing, and Transitions47:37

    In this topic, learners will evaluate the skill of reflection, and learn to differentiate it from interpretation and reframing. They will also explore practical decision-making and goal-identifying processes.

    Content covered:

    1. Reflection of Meaning and Interpretation/Reframing

    2. Logotherapy

  • Strategies for Client Change - Skills of Self-Disclosure Feedback and Immediacy1:04:01

    In this topic, learners will evaluate stress management strategies, explore the stress response system, and further understand and apply counselling skills.

    Content covered:

    1. Resilience and Stress Management

    2. Self-disclosure and Feedback

    3. Immediacy

    4. Natural and Logical Consequences

    5. Directive, Instruction and Psychoeducation

    6. Making Action Skills Work

  • Theoretical Orientation in Practice—Skills of Integration of Closure1:25:51

    In this topic, learners will study termination and closure within a counselling session, and understand the importance of timing.

    Content covered:

    1. The Importance of the Right Time

    2. About Termination

    3. The Termination Process

Requirements

  • Above the age of 16 years of age
  • Holds a minimum of High-School grade 10 / O-Levels / Diploma in any area / Other equivalent qualification
  • Demonstrate a good and proficient command of English language
  • Learners above the age of 30 years old who do not meet above but have significant work and life experience are encouraged to apply

Description

The Specialist Certificate in Counselling Skills course is our training program to equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to apply Basic Counselling techniques in real world application. We focus equally rigorously on theory as we do practical application. The applied practice experience is to ensure competency and quality assurance of our practitioners. We give our graduates the skills and materials to put their training to use right away and create sustainable work for themselves in the world.

The certificate in counselling skills program begins with grounding in the counselling skills model and accompanying theory. Emphasis is placed on learning to use the counselling skills model to specifically treat various issues in counselling. Participants are taught how to apply counselling skills in practice, as well as in other settings.

In this specialist certificate program, participants will be introduced to the field of counselling skills and will learn tools, practice, and applied strategies that support personal, organizational, and community well-being. The online courses in counselling skills teach learners the theoretical and empirical foundations of Rogerian psychotherapy model of human success, optimal functioning, how well-being is measured, and what activities increase human flourishing in various contexts and settings.


This course is accredited and certified by:

1. Complimentary Medical Association UK (CMA UK).

2. International Practitioner of Holistic Medicine (IPHM UK)

3. Continuing Professional Development Certification Service UK (CPD UK).


Udemy Certificate and PSYREC Academy's E-Certificates

This course will award the Udemy Certificate. To gain the Psyrec Academy certified e-certificate, there will be an additional USD18 e-certificate fee.

To gain this e-certificate, please do the following:

1. Complete the Udemy course and gain the Udemy certificate.

2. Make payment of USD18 to us by emailing us at michael@psyrecacademy.org to request for the e-certificate invoice.

3. Screenshot payment proof and also the Udemy certificate, and email us the documentation to michael@psyrecacademy.org with your preferred name to be reflected in the e-certificate.

4. Allow 15 working days for the e-certificate to be emailed to you.

Who this course is for:

  • Students looking for a scientific approach to studying wellbeing and anyone in a professional setting wanting to increase productivity and workplace management.
  • Mature students, school leavers, graduates with either professional experience or post-graduate study experience
  • Teachers
  • HR, business or marketing professionals, entrepreneurs
  • Consultants, health, mental health, or law professionals

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