Why Study this Counselling Skills I Course?

If you want to learn different counselling methods and essential counselling skills, then this might just be the course you are looking for! This online counselling skills I course gives you the fundamental knowledge and skills needed in counselling such as listening and bonding, reflecting, questioning and interviewing techniques, knowing the negative impact of self-destructive beliefs, overcoming psychological blocks and finding solutions, and familiarizing yourself to the most effective way to end a counselling.

 

Counselling Skills Training

“This course has been extremely valuable to me as throughout those 5 months my friends all seemed to go through some crisis or other. I have learned so much that I could put into practice and from the responses I have had, it’s been very positive. Tutor feedback was fantastic. All individual answers were given a comment which helped me understand if I missed something.” 

  • Learn the practical counselling skills required in the counselling process.
  • Learn the underlying theories of counselling.
  • Understand a wide range of counselling techniques useful for anyone working with people in any form.

Course Aims

  • Explain the processes involved in the training of counsellors in micro skills.
  • Explain how to commence the counselling process and evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.
  • Discuss both content and feeling, and their appropriateness to the counselling process.
  • Demonstrate different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.
  • Demonstrate how to use various micro-skills including summarising, confrontation, and reframing.
  • Demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.
  • Explain how counselling a client can improve their psychological well-being through making choices, overcoming psychological blocks and facilitating actions.
  • Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.

Course Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

  1. Learning specific skills:
    • What is Counselling
    • Perceptions of Counselling
    • Differences between Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists
    • Counselling Theories
    • Empathy
    • Transference
    • Directiveness, non-directiveness
    • Behavioural Therapies
    • Systematic Desensitisation
    • Positive Reinforcement and Extinction
    • Goals of Psychoanalytical Approach
    • Defence Mechanisms (Repression, Displacement, Rationalisation, Projection, Reaction Formulation, Intellectualisation, Denial, Sublimation)
    • Use of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
    • Psychoanalytic Techniques
    • Analytic Framework
    • Free Associations
    • Interpretation
    • Dream Analysis
    • Resistance & Transference
    • Humanistic Therapy
    • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Therapies and Counsellors
    • Case Studies
    • Methods of Learning
    • Micro Skills
    • Triads
    • Modelling
    • Online and Telephone Counselling
    • Telemental Health
    • Clinical Considerations
  2. Listening & bonding:
    • Scope of Listening and Bonding
    • Meeting and greeting
    • Creating a Safe Environment
    • Location
    • Time and Duration of Sessions
    • Privacy in Telephone and online counselling
    • Showing warmth on the phone
    • The contract
    • Helping the client relax
    • Listening with intent
    • Minimal Responses
    • Non Verbal Behaviour
    • Use of Voice
    • Use of Silence
    • Case Studies
    • Active Listening
    • Dealing with Silent Phone Calls
  3. Reflection:
    • Non Directive Counselling
    • Paraphrasing
    • Feelings
    • Reflection of Feeling
    • Client Responses to Reflection of Feelings
    • Reflection of Content and Feeling
    • Case Studies
  4. Questioning:
    • Open & Closed Questions
    • Other types of Questions (Linear, Information seeking, Strategic, Reflective, Clarification, etc.)
    • Questions to Avoid
    • Goals of Questioning
    • Identification
    • Assessment
    • Intervention
    • Case Studies
  5. Interview techniques:
    • Summarising
    • Application
    • Confrontation
    • Reframing
    • Case Studies
    • Perspective
    • Summary
  6. Changing beliefs and normalising:
    • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
    • Changing Self-Destructive Beliefs
    • Irrational Beliefs
    • Normalising
    • Case Studies
    • Designing a Questionnaire
  7. Finding solutions:
    • Moving Forward
    • Choices (Reviewing, Creating, Making choices)
    • Facilitating Actions
    • Gestalt Awareness Circle
    • Psychological Blocks
    • Case Study
  8. Ending the counselling:
    • Terminating the session
    • Closure
    • Further Meetings
    • Dependency
    • Confronting Dependency
    • Chronic Callers
    • Terminating Silent Phone Calls
    • Silent Endings
    • Case Study
    • Other Services

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  • Experienced Tutor support
  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

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    • Experienced Tutor support
    • Certificate sent to you
    • Online study (Printed notes available)
    • Self paced - no set timetable
    • 12 months to complete course

    From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

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      Why Study this Counselling Skills I Course?

      If you want to learn different counselling methods and essential counselling skills, then this might just be the course you are looking for! This online counselling skills I course gives you the fundamental knowledge and skills needed in counselling such as listening and bonding, reflecting, questioning and interviewing techniques, knowing the negative impact of self-destructive beliefs, overcoming psychological blocks and finding solutions, and familiarizing yourself to the most effective way to end a counselling.

       

      Counselling Skills Training

      “This course has been extremely valuable to me as throughout those 5 months my friends all seemed to go through some crisis or other. I have learned so much that I could put into practice and from the responses I have had, it’s been very positive. Tutor feedback was fantastic. All individual answers were given a comment which helped me understand if I missed something.” 

      • Learn the practical counselling skills required in the counselling process.
      • Learn the underlying theories of counselling.
      • Understand a wide range of counselling techniques useful for anyone working with people in any form.

      Course Aims

      • Explain the processes involved in the training of counsellors in micro skills.
      • Explain how to commence the counselling process and evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.
      • Discuss both content and feeling, and their appropriateness to the counselling process.
      • Demonstrate different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.
      • Demonstrate how to use various micro-skills including summarising, confrontation, and reframing.
      • Demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.
      • Explain how counselling a client can improve their psychological well-being through making choices, overcoming psychological blocks and facilitating actions.
      • Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.

      Course Structure

      There are 8 lessons in this course:

      1. Learning specific skills:
        • What is Counselling
        • Perceptions of Counselling
        • Differences between Counsellors, Psychotherapists, Clinical Psychologists and Psychiatrists
        • Counselling Theories
        • Empathy
        • Transference
        • Directiveness, non-directiveness
        • Behavioural Therapies
        • Systematic Desensitisation
        • Positive Reinforcement and Extinction
        • Goals of Psychoanalytical Approach
        • Defence Mechanisms (Repression, Displacement, Rationalisation, Projection, Reaction Formulation, Intellectualisation, Denial, Sublimation)
        • Use of Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy
        • Psychoanalytic Techniques
        • Analytic Framework
        • Free Associations
        • Interpretation
        • Dream Analysis
        • Resistance & Transference
        • Humanistic Therapy
        • Evaluating the Effectiveness of Therapies and Counsellors
        • Case Studies
        • Methods of Learning
        • Micro Skills
        • Triads
        • Modelling
        • Online and Telephone Counselling
        • Telemental Health
        • Clinical Considerations
      2. Listening & bonding:
        • Scope of Listening and Bonding
        • Meeting and greeting
        • Creating a Safe Environment
        • Location
        • Time and Duration of Sessions
        • Privacy in Telephone and online counselling
        • Showing warmth on the phone
        • The contract
        • Helping the client relax
        • Listening with intent
        • Minimal Responses
        • Non Verbal Behaviour
        • Use of Voice
        • Use of Silence
        • Case Studies
        • Active Listening
        • Dealing with Silent Phone Calls
      3. Reflection:
        • Non Directive Counselling
        • Paraphrasing
        • Feelings
        • Reflection of Feeling
        • Client Responses to Reflection of Feelings
        • Reflection of Content and Feeling
        • Case Studies
      4. Questioning:
        • Open & Closed Questions
        • Other types of Questions (Linear, Information seeking, Strategic, Reflective, Clarification, etc.)
        • Questions to Avoid
        • Goals of Questioning
        • Identification
        • Assessment
        • Intervention
        • Case Studies
      5. Interview techniques:
        • Summarising
        • Application
        • Confrontation
        • Reframing
        • Case Studies
        • Perspective
        • Summary
      6. Changing beliefs and normalising:
        • Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
        • Changing Self-Destructive Beliefs
        • Irrational Beliefs
        • Normalising
        • Case Studies
        • Designing a Questionnaire
      7. Finding solutions:
        • Moving Forward
        • Choices (Reviewing, Creating, Making choices)
        • Facilitating Actions
        • Gestalt Awareness Circle
        • Psychological Blocks
        • Case Study
      8. Ending the counselling:
        • Terminating the session
        • Closure
        • Further Meetings
        • Dependency
        • Confronting Dependency
        • Chronic Callers
        • Terminating Silent Phone Calls
        • Silent Endings
        • Case Study
        • Other Services

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      From: $25.00 / week for 26 weeks

      Clear

       

      Get a Free Info Pack!

        CourseStream Accreditation.
        Accredited courses.