Certificate in Adult Counselling
Programme
Spring Term
Theory:
Psychodynamic Theories:
- Sigmund Freud
- Carl. G. Jung
- Alfred Adler
- Melanie Klein
- Donald Winnicot
- John Bowlby
Humanistic Theories:
- Person centred: Carl Rogers
- Gestalt Therapy: Frederic Perls
- Transactional Analysis: Eric Berne
- Existential Therapy: Victor Frankl, Abraham Maslow
Behavioural Cognitive Approaches
- Rational Emotive Therapy: A Ellis
- Personal Construct Theory: George Kelly
Practice:
- Listening skills, summarising, paraphrasing
- Three levels of empathy
- Core conditions of therapeutic relationship
- Boundaries in counselling and psychotherapy
- Body language, usage of voice, questions
- Silence
- Touch
- Applying psychodynamic tools in practice
- Transference & counter transference
Summer Term
Theory:
- Transpersonal Approaches: Ken Wilber
- Multimodial Approaches
- (Integrative and Eclectic) Arnold Lazarus
- Working with:
- Sexual abuse
- Eating Disorders
- Anxiety Disorders; Phobias & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Mood Disorders, Depression
- Psychotic Disorders
- Suicide Risk
- Couples and marriage counselling
- Assessments, Risk Assessments
Practice:
- Transpersonal techniques
- Consolidating learned theories into practice
- Application of some therapeutic tools
- Assessment and Risk Assessment Skills
Autumn Term
Theory:
- Personality disorders:
- Histrionic
- Narcissistic
- Obsessive- compulsive
- Schizoid
- Anti-social
- Paranoid
- Antisocial
- Dependent
- Borderline personalities
- Personality Theories:
- Freudian Typology
- Jungian Typology
- Humanistic and research–based typology
- Four elements typology
- Other transpersonal typologies
- Good practice in telephone Counselling
- Online counselling
- Cross cultural counselling
- Issues of gender and sexuality
- Supervision
- Code of Ethics, ethical issues in Counselling and Psychotherapy
Practice:
- Application of different typologies, case studies
- Initial contract with clients
- Endings
- Ethical Issues, confidentiality, dual relationships
- Supervision
Films shown:
- “Gloria” (C. Rogers, F. Perls, A. Ellis)
- ”Transpersonal Psychotherapy Five Sessions “(by Bozena Merrick & Ann Richardson)
