Counselling Psychology is a broad specialization within professional psychology concerned with using psychological principles to enhance and promote the positive growth, well-being, and mental health of individuals, families, groups, and the broader community. Counselling psychologists bring a collaborative, developmental, multicultural, and wellness perspective to their research and practice. They work with many types of individuals, including those experiencing distress and difficulties associated with life events and transitions, decision-making, work/career/education, family and social relationships, and mental health and physical health concerns. In addition to remediation, counselling psychologists engage in prevention, psycho-education and advocacy. The research and professional domain of counselling psychology overlaps with that of other professions such as clinical psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and mental health counselling.
Programme Aims and Objectives
Our Diploma in Psychological Counselling will provide you with essential knowledge and skills in counselling required to effectively and compassionately support individuals with mild or moderate mental health problems and normal developmental issues. You will undertake 20 hours of valuable experiential learning during your course which will equip you with practical counselling experience and enable you to develop relationships that will support your future employability.
The objectives of the Diploma in in Psychological Counselling qualification are to:
- Ability to critically evaluate the strengths and limitations of the major approaches in individual and group counselling and psychology.
- Achieve competence and to practice within the guidelines and ethical codes of counselling.
- Advance to a professional qualification and attain authentic counselling experience.
- Develop critical evaluation skills to assess and implement intervention strategies
- Ability to comprehend personal growth and self-awareness through self-exploration.
- Recognise and respect human diversity across populations, age groups, culture and contexts.
Syllabus
Module 1 Self-Awareness
Course Objectives
At the end of this module, students will be able describe
- Personal Values and Counselling
- Self Awareness
- Ethics and Values
Module 2 General Counseling skills
Sub Contents
- Personal Development
- Introduction to Counselling
Course Objectives
At the end of this module, students will be able
- Understand Self Reflection
- Explain the Gibbs’s Reflective Cycle(1988)
- Describe the Reflective Practice Strategies
- Describe Counselling?
- List the Main Principles in a counselling relationship
- Differentiate between Guidance and Counselling
- Explain Important values of counselling
Module 3 Ethical Practice
Ethical Practices of Counselling
Course Objectives
At the end of this module, student will be able;
Understand and apply the code of ethics followed during the councelling
Module 4 Introduction to Psychology
Sub Topics
The evaluation of Psychology
Psychology as a science
Brain, Body and Behaviour
Course Objectives
At the end of this module, student will be able understand describe;
- History of Psychology
- Approaches in Psychology
- Psychology Field and Career Opportunities
- Why Psychologists Rely on Empirical Methods
- The Challenges of Studying Psychology Structure and functions of the neuron Neurotransmitters
- Part of the Brain and how it function
- The Nervous System
Module 5 Defining Psychological Disorders
Sub Topics
Psychological Disorders
Anxiety and Dissociative Disorders :Fearing the World Around Us
Mood Disorders: Emotions as Illness
Personality Disorders
Schizophrenia : The Edge of Reality and Consciousness
Somatoform and Sexual Disorders
Course Objectives
At the end of the module student will be able
- Define a disorder
- Describe anxiety and dissociative disorders
- Explain the major mood disorders , personality disorders, somatoform and Sexual Disorders.
- Explaining Schizophrenia and identify the symptoms of Schizophrenia,
Module 6 Developmental Psychology
Course Objectives
At the end of the module student will be able;
- Identify the psychological development
- Understand Theories in Development Psychology and Limitations
- Identify the different ages of development
Module 8 Bereavement and Grief Counselling
Course Objectives
At the end of the module student will be able to
- Describe the grief counselling techniques
- Apply grief counselling techniques and strategies
- Application of reaction of bereavement
Module 9 Crisis Intervention
Course Objectives
At the end of the module student will be able to apply crises intervention techniques.
Learning Methodology
- Attend Online lectures over week day and weekends
- Digital Learning
- Experiential learning
- Case studies and Assignments