Course Summary
Course Category: CAO (Higher Education - HET)
Counselling involves engaging and listening to clients about their emotions, relationships, thought processes, patterns of behaviour or life events such as bereavement, addiction, divorce, health issues or job concerns. Counsellors help clients to understand themselves better and find their own solutions to resolve or cope with their situation or issues. Counsellors play a crucial role in improving the health and wellbeing of people in society.
Course Details
What will you study?
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Human Development: Content and Theory
Personal Development: Process and Care
Counselling Skills
Theoretical Perspectives in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Research and Academic Skills
Reflective Practice Personal Development: Process and Care
Advanced Counselling Skills
Person Centred Approach to Counselling and Psychotherapy
Bereavement, Loss and Grief
Addiction Studies Human and Personal Development: Content and Theory
Ethics and Professional Considerations in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Advanced Addiction Counselling Skills
Family/Systemic Psychotherapy: Theory & Skills
Counselling and Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Addiction
The Creative Arts and Therapy Mindfulness Based Approaches
Sexual Abuse and Trauma
Family Therapy for Addiction: Systemic Perspectives in Counselling Clients and their Families
Contemporary Issues in Group Process and Group Facilitation Research Methods
Psychodynamic Perspectives
Motivational Interviewing
Clinical Supervision
Important
- Colleges may add/remove modules to keep the course updated and to meet demands.
Progression to CAO Courses
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Social
The Social person's interests focus on interacting with the people in their environment. In all cases, the Social person enjoys the personal contact with other people in preference to the impersonal dealings with things, data and ideas found in other groups.
Many will seek out positions where there is direct contact with the public in some advisory role, whether a receptionist or a counsellor. Social people are motivated by an interest in different types of people and like diversity in their work environments. Many are drawn towards careers in the caring professions and social welfare area, whilst others prefer teaching and other 'informing' roles.
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
