CERTIFICATE IN COUNSELLING SKILLS COURSE
* MOE Approved
Investment: S$ 450/- (including administrative, incl.GST – can be paid by installment)
Course suited for : anyone wanting to gain knowledge/additional qualifications, all those involved in public relations work (educators, nursing professionals, managers, supervisors, sports coaches, legal and medical professionals, etc.)
Educational requirement: Minimum Secondary 2 (or on a case by case basis for those without the minimum qualification but have many years of working experience). The course is conducted in English only.
Mode of course delivery: Lectures and group discussions and practices, video and audio presentations (wherever possible), role plays and dramatization, a project work (15- 20 mins. audio/video recording of a simulated formal counseling session without transcripts/write-ups).
There will be no formal assessment/tests in the course.
Duration of course: 10 lessons (20 hrs) – 2 hrs per session twice a week
COURSE CONTENT:
Lesson 1 : Introduction to counselling – an overview.
1.1 The helping relationship – What is counseling?
1.2 Characteristics of helpers/counselors
1.3 General overview of helping/counseling process
1.4 Confidentiality and other ethical issues
1.5 Values and beliefs of the counsellor
1.6 The counselling environment
1.7 Discussion of Project work (to be handed in by the 9th lesson)
Lesson 2 : Specific skills in counseling (Part 1)
2.1 Joining and listening,
2.2 Reflection of content and feelings
2.3 Matching client’s language
2.4 Asking questions, summarizing and reframing
2.5 Case studies and practices
Lesson 3 : Specific skills in conselling (Part 2)
3.1 Confrontation and challenging self-destructive beliefs
3.2 Normalising and exploring options
3.3 Facilitating action and termination
3.4 The process of a counselling session
3.5 Using the here and now experience
3.6 Keeping records of counselling sessions
3.7 Case studies and practices
Lesson 4 : Counselling in focus I
4.1 Role of understanding in Egan’s Skilled-Helper Model
4.2 Stages and steps of the helping model
4.3 Values in action – empathy and empowerment
4.4 A working charter – a client-helper contract
4.5 Case studies and practices
Lesson 5 : Counselling in focus II
5.1 Counsellor self-disclosure
5.2 Inadequate listening and empathic listening
5.3 Non-verbal messages and modifiers
5.4 Thoughtful search for meaning
5.5 Empathic highlights and sharing
5.6 Case reviews and practical sessions
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Lesson 6: Helping clients make plans
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6.1 No plan of action : a sample case for review
6.2 How plans add value to clients change programs
6.3 Shaping the plan – cases for review
6.4 Humanising the technology of constructive change
6.5 Tailoring ready made-programs for clients’ needs
6.6 Case reviews and practical sessions
Lesson 7 : Counselling in analysis
7.1 Turning general aims into specific goals
7.2 Force-field analysis model
7.3 Brainstorming and role-play methods of action
7.4 Dynamics of confidentiality
7.5 Importance of endings and boundaries
7.6 Review of 3 stage skills model
7.7 Case reviews and practical sessions
Lesson 8 : Crisis Intervention, PTSD, Grief and loss and telephone counselling
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8.1 Definitions and case reviews
8.2 Brainstorming activity
8.3 Practical sessions
Lesson 9 : Counselling in depth
9.1 Communicate acceptance to the client
9.2 Re-interpretation of client’s story
9.3 Identify accepting and non-accepting responses
9.4 Case reviews and practical sessions
Lesson 10: Session 1 - Counselling theories, techniques and practice – overview
10.1 Adlerian Therapy
10.2 Person –centred Therapy
10.3 Gestalt Therapy
10.4 Reality Therapy
10.5 Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
10.6 Family systems Therapy
10.7 Integration and application
Session 2 - End of Course summary and presentation of certificates
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PROGRAMME DIRECTOR AND PRINCIPAL TRAINER
Dr Siva Mahendran
Managing Director
UNIPHIMATRIX EDUCATIONAL AND COUNSELLING SERVICES
(Acra UEN : 53374530J)