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**Please note that we are no longer accepting applications for this cohort. Additional courses will be available in the future, so we encourage you to check our website regularly for updates.
The course is for those who have completed an approved level 2 course or its equivalent. It is validated by the NCFE/CACHE awarding body and successful completion is an entry requirement for the Level 4 Diploma in Counselling. The course includes theory, practical skills, personal development work, a compulsory weekend component and a minimum attendance requirement of 80%.
NB there will be some weekend sessions, dates TBC
The course includes theory, practical skills, personal development, a weekend component (for which attendance is essential).
To be offered a place on the Level 3 Diploma in Counselling Skills course, you will need to have successfully completed a Level 2 Counselling qualification (minimum 30 hours of formal counselling training or equivalent experience).
In addition you will need:
- Tutor Reference
- Good spoken English
- Level 2 in English language (grades A-C) or the equivalent.
- A copy of your Level 2 Certificate
- Portfolio of completed coursework
Counselling Skills:
- Recap on basic listening skills
- Challenge skills, process monitoring, advanced accurate empathy
- How to use Questions
- How to make a counselling contract
- How to open and close a counselling skills session
- Giving and receiving feedback
Counselling Theory:
- Key concepts of person centred, psychodynamic and CBT approaches to counselling
- Ethical framework for counselling
- Counselling and diversity
- The context for using counselling skills
- Theory of personal development
Personal development:
- Students will participate in a weekly Personal Development group.
For additional course information, please see: Course Brochure
Admission is by Tutor Approval Only, and subject to interview.
To apply for an interview, please submit your completed Application Form to counselling@marywardcentre.ac.ukand we will advise you of the next available interview date.
For further information please contact counselling@marywardcentre.ac.uk
**Please note that we are no longer accepting applications for this cohort. Additional courses will be available in the future, so we encourage you to check our website regularly for updates.
There are five learning units. Students will produce a portfolio of evidence to cover each of the units. Please note, this portfolio of work and evidence is a substantial piece of work and requires considerable commitment
Your practical counselling skills will be assessed formally in class by your tutors
There will be ongoing tutor and peer feedback about your practical counselling skills work
You will also self-assess in class and through your personal journal writing
By the end of the course you should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an increased awareness of yourself and how you affect others
2. Have thought about issues of difference and disadvantage and your own responses to these issues
3. Have developed or strengthened your commitment to anti-oppressive practice in the use of counselling skills
4. Name and use appropriately the skills introduced
5. Initiate, maintain and complete an interaction using counselling skills
6. Have an understanding of the Person centred, psychodynamic and CBT models of counselling
7. Have an understanding of and commitment to the BACP framework for good practice in counselling and psychotherapy
Recommended counselling textbooks
Writing materials for class notes and a notebook for use as a personal journal.
Independent study, assignment work, additional reading
Apply the counselling skills developed outside the classroom, where appropriate
If you wish to train as a counsellor, you can apply for the CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Integrative Counselling course (BACP accredited) at The Mary Ward Centre
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