This course is designed for professionals who are not counsellors, in roles that involve listening to and supporting others. It aims to equip participants with key listening and counselling skills and some models helpful to aid understanding of ourselves and others. At the end of the course participants will be able to: ? Reflect on their own motivations to help others and how this impacts on the helping encounter in their particular settings or contexts ? Understand and practice the key counselling skills within a three stage helping model ? Identify and develop strategies for working with difficult people and situations in a non-counselling setting ? Describe how to create effective boundaries to ensure safety for self and others ? Describe and reflect on some models of understanding self and others, and apply them to their own working practices The course is participative with lots of opportunities to practice and develop counselling skills which can be useful in a range of non-counselling settings The course is made up of mandatory and optional units. The group will decide on the optional units depending on the needs of the group. Topics will include: ? structuring a helping encounter ? using a range of counselling skills to help others ? dealing with strong emotions ? dealing with suicidal people ? learning how to minimise barriers to communication ? working more effectively with defensive and difficult people ? models of understanding self and others ? drawn from Humanistic and Psychodynamic counselling theories ? awareness of difference and power Part of the learning process will be to keep an ongoing reflective journal. No formal assessment. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance for the purpose of providing evidence of CPD activity.
Name: Counselling Skills for Health, Education and Other Professionals in a Helping Role Qualification title: Vocational study not leading to a recognised qualification, Health, Public Services and Care (SSA 1) Qualification type: Assessment Awarding Generic award - no awarding body Created 20130910 12:07:07 Updated 20150414 12:55:59
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Title: Vocational study not leading to a recognised qualification, Health, Public Services and Care (SSA 1) Qualification: Vocational study not leading to a recognised qualification, Health, Public Services and Care (SSA 1) Classification: Health, Public Services and Care