Counselling Courses

The Counselling Course II is designed for individuals aiming to enhance their counselling abilities and skills. This course will help you understand your responsibilities as a counsellor. You will also learn about the latest and most effective counselling methods. This course will enlighten you about micro-skills and techniques that can improve your knowledge about human psychology.

The Counselling Course II will clarify that you, as a counsellor, are not supposed to offer solutions to your clients. Instead, your responsibility is to help them understand their issues and figure out their own solutions. You’ll receive the right education and training to prepare your clients to deal with a range of issues including crisis situations.

The Business Coaching Course is designed for individuals who want to excel as a professional coach or trainer. The teachings of this course will enlighten you about different skills and tools required to understand your clients’ issues and needs. While working as a business coach, you’ll be able to educate and communicate with your clients in a more effective manner.

The Business Coaching Course has the perfect combination of tools, topics, activities, and skills that will make you a better coach. It will significantly improve your adaptability and productivity so that you can carry out the role of a coach more professionally.

Careers Counselling involves more than just finding work for people. Among other things, Careers Counselling may involve helping people:

• identify the best job for their skills and interests
• find any job to meet their personal and financial needs
• find a better or more appropriate job for their situation
• achieve job satisfaction through appropriate choices
• plan and cope with career changes
• better adapt to the workplace
• improve their potential for advancement in the workplace
• identify new career possibilities when circumstances change.

This course will develop your understanding of factors affecting career choices and planning, and your ability to help others plan and achieve career goals. The course is aimed at students who have prior experience or training in a related field such as counselling or social work, but will benefit anyone in their own career planning and development.

Student comment:

The course was a valuable learning experience for me as it involved me applying my knowledge to real life practical examples. I realise how much I have actually achieved too. I learned a lot of new things too which was an enriching experience.

Brilliant written feedback was given - the tutor was extremely approachable. I would highly recommend the Careers Counselling Course for anyone to do. It was a refreshing experience, which allows you to interpret, apply and evaluate your own experiences within careers. Sonia Achievement June 2012

This course will provide you with a range of conflict management techniques. You will gain an understanding of conflict and how we can work to avoid conflict. Learn a wide variety of things, through a combination of reading, interacting with tutors, undertaking research, practical tasks, etc. Develop your ability to manage conflict situations, as a counsellor, manager, supervisor, or simply a concerned person.

Develop your ability to assist with negotiation or mediation in group conflicts. Develop an understanding of the nature of conflict, the importance of listening skills, and the use of resolution techniques such as negotiation, mediation and facilitation.

Anyone who wants to become a successful and resourceful counsellor can attempt the Counselling Course I BPS 109. The contents of this course will allow you to not only listen to your clients’ concerns, but also understand them perfectly. It will give you insight into their inner feelings and opinions. Additionally, you’ll have the right combination of knowledge, methods, tools, and techniques to counsel individuals belonging to different walks of life.

The Counselling Course I is an ideal subject for people who want to prosper as a counsellor. This course will expand and refine your counselling concepts and abilities. Moreover, it will provide you with a solid foundation that will make your counselling practice more practical.

The Counselling Techniques Course is designed for individuals already rendering counselling services. It is also available for people aspiring to start a career in the counselling industry. It will equip you with appropriate techniques and skills required to progress in this field.

Enrol in the Counselling Techniques Course to provide your clients with improved counselling services. The teachings of this course will help you recognise and appreciate the principles, aims, and advantages of counselling techniques. You’ll also learn about the primary elements of modern therapy.

Individuals who want to develop useful and practical counselling skills can attempt the Crisis Counselling Course. This course will provide you with the foundation knowledge that will enable you to assist people facing different crises. If you already have the basic counselling knowledge, then this course will widen your spectrum and help you attain successful results. The Crisis Counselling Course is the ideal choice for people aspiring to serve individuals in crisis. It will teach you about different kinds of responses you can expect from your clients, such as physical, cognitive, social, and emotional. Additionally, you’ll develop a better understanding of the human nature and psychology.

Study at Home – for anyone who counsels older people professionally or personally.

The demand for aged care counsellors is increasing because people are living longer. There are many ways that the elderly person can learn to cope with health impairments in order to maintain the quality of their life.

Counsellors can play a role in helping the elderly client find solutions to problems and ways to avoid them. It may just be that changes need to be made to the home environment, or friends or family need to play a more active role in the life of the elderly person, or perhaps some different skills, behaviours, routines, or habits are needed. There are often several ways to solve everyday problems.

Explore the complex range of emotional issues that confront the elderly and learn to care and counsel the elderly. From dealing with the emotions of grief and the loss of a partner for the elderly to relationships with children and grandchildren... and much more. This course was written by tutors highly qualified and experienced in the field of Psychology and will help you to care for the aged. This is a course for anyone working in elderly care services; aged care and counselling , or simply seeking to improve their knowledge and skills to better understand the elderly, care for the elderly and help them.

The course will improve you knowledge and understanding of palliative issues, dementia and nutrition

A family is much more than a group of individuals. It consists of people who not only live together, but also love and respect each other. They can confide in each other regarding the good and bad phases of their lives. A family serves as a single unit and holds everyone together. It has a significant impact on your thinking and attitude towards life and society.

The Family Counselling Course includes diverse elements that focus on family dynamics. It will help you serve your purpose as a family counsellor more effectively. You’ll have the right knowledge and tools to analyse family issues and come up with helpful solutions. Thus, you’ll be prepared to lend a helping hand to any family going through a difficult phase.

Grief is a term used to describe all the thoughts, behaviour and feelings that occur after someone goes through a bereavement. A bereavement is any event that includes a loss. We may experience loss through the death of someone close to us, or a relationship breakdown, divorce, theft, a disability, illness, miscarriage and so on.

There is no “right” way to respond to a death, people will cope with a death in their own way. The way they respond will be affected by their relationship with the person who has died, their own upbringing, their previous reactions to losses, their other relationships etc.

Holidays, anniversaries, Christmas and so on can be difficult times for the bereaved, as they can remind us of the person they have lost. Grief can be worse at these times of year. There is no single way to grieve. Everyone is different and each person grieves in his or her own way. However, some stages of grief are commonly experienced by people when they are bereaved.

Develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures for Grief Counselling. Topics covered include: Nature and Scope of Grief, Stages of Grief, Grief and different age groups, Adjustment to Bereavement, Abnormal Grief, Preparing for Bereavement, Long-term Grief, etc

People may contact a life coach for very different reasons: to help them make better financial or career decisions; to get them motivated; to help them overcome feelings of frustration, helplessness, or lack of confidence; to help them manage personal relationships; to help them develop practical life skills. However, the reasons for contacting a life coach may not be the primary issues that are causing the client distress or dissatisfaction, and much of the life coach’s work will be to lead the client on a journey of self-discovery.

Life coaching involves assisting the client set personal and professional goals and establishing a workable strategy to attain them within a given time frame. For clients, a life coach can provide a life-changing experience, an invaluable opportunity to take control over their lives and fulfil their dreams.

The course will enable people in health, fitness, counselling, social work etc. to help others set and achieve life goals. Develop your skills in setting and achieving goals, not only for yourself but for those who seek your assistance. The course is aimed at students who have prior experience or training in a related field such as health, fitness, counselling, social work or naturopathy.

Motivated employees drive the success of a business. Learn how to get the best of employees by understanding more about this fascinating subject. Motivation is very simply, a process or mechanism that causes us to act or think in a certain way. It is a general term for any part of the hypothetical psychological process that involves experiencing needs and drives, and the behaviour that leads to the goal that satisfies them.

Topics include

• The nature and scope of motivation
• The differences between people
  
• The significance of knowledge and understanding to motivation
• The effects of Tangible Rewards
• The effect of intangible Rewards
• Negative motivators
• Positive motivators.
• Initiating motivation with an individual or group
• Maintaining motivation

This is a course for managers, supervisors, workplace trainers, employers or anyone else who is concerned with making a workplace function more smoothly and effectively.

This course complements Leadership, Management and Personnel Management (HR).

It is essential that if the counsellor is to enable the client to experience growth, they themselves must discard stereotyped roles in order that they can become a real person in a real relationship.

It is the counsellor’s own genuineness, alertness, and ability to make life choices that are the inspiration for clients to make changes to their own lives.

Of course, this does not have to mean that the counsellor is on top of everything at all times in their own life, but rather that they are willing to make changes where necessary. As such, the counsellor is able to convey to the client that taking risks and instigating changes can be worthwhile.

It can be argued that if the counsellor remains hidden behind low-risk behaviour and does not disclose too much about themselves, then the client will exhibit similar behaviour.

Similarly, if the counsellor portrays themselves as an expert who is there to diagnose and offer a cure, then the client is less likely to take an active role in therapy. They may also feel more impotent and helpless and consequently reveal less of themselves and become more defensive.

The psychological health of the counsellor is crucial in determining the success of the counselling relationship. A counsellor owes it to the client not to engage in counselling whilst experiencing problems of their own.

If this looks interesting, why not try this course? Develop your understanding of appropriate practices and procedures within the counselling profession. Students will also gain knowledge of the self, personality and emotions and their effect on the counselling process as well as being introduced to some of the most common disorders.

It is assumed anyone undertaking this course will already have a basic grounding in psychology and counselling, at least equivalent to the “Introduction to Psychology” course offered through this school.

Professional supervision for psychologists and counsellors involves (for want of a better word) debriefing. For the past 20 years or so, the concept of supervision in the helping professions has been under scrutiny. The field of supervision has consequently been reviewed and revised to determine consistent philosophies across the board, and to explain exactly what is meant by supervision and what its central values and aims are. The defining philosophies for the practice of supervision are to be found in the Standards for Supervision and the Curriculum Guide for Counselling Supervision.Without the opportunity to discuss cases in a confidential professional situation, a professional can themselves begin to suffer from the burden of having to deal alone with a build up of problems they confront on a regular basis. This course develops skills in supervising other professionals and an awareness of what to expect when undergoing supervision yourself.

According to the World Health Organisation, 25% of people will develop a mental or behavioural disorder during their life-span. While most individuals develop methods of coping with stress, some develop unhealthy defence mechanisms and behavioural patterns which interfere with their daily life. Others suffer mental breakdowns in response to too much stress. The most common physical disorders are depression, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, epilepsy, mental retardation, substance abuse disorders, and disorders of childhood and adolescents. Abnormal psychology is concerned with the study of maladaptive or abnormal behaviour and the classification and prognosis of such maladjusted behaviour.  Psychologists and counsellors work closely with people who are experiencing mental health issues. This course will enable you to develop your ability to analyse psychological conditions, and apply that knowledge in counselling, or advisory situations.

The Relationship Counselling Course is available for anyone who wants to learn about effective relationship counselling. This course may serve you well if you want to be an exceptional relationship counsellor. Your tutors will help you widen your imagination so that you can assist other individuals efficiently to resolve their relationship troubles.

Once you complete the Relationship Counselling course successfully, you will be able to help others to develop positive relationships. This course will provide you with the perfect counselling techniques and strategies required to become a successful relationship counsellor.

Home study course - stress management

Learn more about practical methods of reducing stress.

Stress is modern man's constant enemy. As life becomes more an more hectic, people work longer hours under greater time constraints, over global time zones with less recreation time more and more people struggle to cope with their stress levels.

Anxiety, tension, and mental and emotional strain are all common problems in today's society.

With better management of stress you are not only happier, but also more productive, and your influence on those around you becomes increasingly positive.

This course introduces you to some practical approaches to combating stress

• how to achieve easy living
• dealing with drugs
• developing self esteem
• relaxation
• diet

and much more.

Distance Education Course for Weight Loss Consulting

The prevalence of obesity is increasing in all age groups and virtually all populations worldwide. With this rise in obesity rates has come a wide range of opportunities to develop weight loss services to help clients to lose weight and increase their fitness levels.

Throughout this course we shall examine how to set up effective weight loss services and provide you with the knowledge and skills to support these services.