Diploma In Public Health Counselling

Become a Public Health Counsellor

What you'll learn
Define Public Health and its purpose
Understand Core functions of public health
Understand the mission and vision of public health
Define Health and understand the types of health
Understand the determinants of health
Understand roles and responsibilities of Public Health Counsellors
Define Counselling and understand its purpose
What is motivating you to be a counsellor and benefits of counselling
Define prevention and understand the types of prevention
Understand the greater questions of life and how you can you them
Understand active listening and why it is important
Understand the types of counselling and when to use them
Understand the stages of counselling
Understand the client counsellor relationship
Understand ethics in counselling
Understand key qualities of a counsellor
Requirements
High school certificate
Description
The course offers an extensive knowledge and trains students in basics of counselling skills which they can use at different settings. This course will equip students be effective trained Public Health counsellors with adequate communication and development skills. Additionally, students will enhance self-awareness and reflective abilities that are highly valued in a range of organizations and personal life situations. The course will equip the students to be able to make a difference in people's lives with a positive relationship.In this course you will learn the following topics:Understand public health and its core functionsUnderstand the purpose for public healthUnderstand health, types of health and determinants of healthSelf-reflection questions of life. These are questions that will help you to have a positive thought of life and can eventually help you to guide your clients.Basics of counselling. This topic will cover skills such as attending, silence, reflecting, paraphrasing, clarifying and use of questions, focusing, building rapport, summarizing and Immediacy.Types of Counselling focusing only on client centered, directive and problem-solving skillsListening skills covering how the counsellor should listen and what to avoid.Client counsellor relationship will enable the students to be able to build positive rapport with clients Ethics in counselling will enable students to be aware of ethics to uphold in this professionKey qualities of a counsellor will enable students to understand the qualities which they need to have in order to be successful counsellorsExamples of open ended and closed ended questionsWhat to do next after this course completionThis course is for all levels of experience. However, students should be able to understand English, be able to read and write in English, have good network connection for effective learning with either a phone, tablet or laptop.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Public Health

Lecture 1 Define Public Health

Lecture 2 Mission of Public Health

Lecture 3 Vision of Public Health

Lecture 4 Define Counselling and purpose of counselling

Lecture 5 Define Health

Lecture 6 Types of Health: Physical and mental health

Lecture 7 Social, emotional and environmental health

Lecture 8 Spiritual health

Lecture 9 Determinants of health

Lecture 10 Core functions of public health

Lecture 11 Purpose of public health

Lecture 12 Prevention

Lecture 13 Roles and function of Public Health Counsellor

Section 2: Introduction to counselling

Lecture 14 Introduction to counselling

Lecture 15 Greater questions of life

Lecture 16 Basics of Counselling

Lecture 17 Key qualities of a counsellor

Lecture 18 Active listening

Lecture 19 Types of Counselling

Lecture 20 Client counsellor relationship

Lecture 21 Ethics in Counselling

Lecture 22 Questioning

Lecture 23 What next

Any individual with interest in public health counselling