Practical Counselling Skills

Learn the essential skills to become a effective Counsellor

What you'll learn

The skills needed to become an effective counsellor

Professional skills to serve personal and work relationships

A range of listening skills which can be utilised within any chosen career

How to design a series of counselling sessions in a helping relationship

The importance of maintaining self-care practices for success within your personal and professional life

How technology plays a role in Counselling

Requirements

Be able to read, understand and speak English

No previous experience of counselling is required to join in this course

This training can be studied anywhere with a stable internet connection.

Access your training course from a tablet, smartphone, or desktop.

Description

Are you passionate about making a difference in the lives of others? Do you want to learn some new skills? Are you keen to gain insight into the role of a Counsellor?If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions then this Counselling course is designed to help improve your current skills and gain some further knowledge about what the Counselling profession entails as well as giving you the opportunity for personal development to practice these skills in a reverse range of settings.This helpful course allows you to become aware of the essential skills needed in order to become a Counsellor whilst providing you with how to apply these skills to your practice. It provides you with both tools and exercises to encourage you with developing your current communication skills and becoming aware of how you can develop these skills to enhance the way you work with others.The course has 22 sections altogether where you will be asked to complete a short practical exercise at the end of most sections. This is to encourage you to reflect on the section's content and test your knowledge about what you have learnt. By the end of the course, you would have learnt about:Essential skills that are needed for Counselling practice along with examples of these skillsHow you can effectively utilise each one of these skills in your lifeCounselling Process and what this process entailsUseful tools and recommended readings you can take away with you

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What is Counselling?

Lecture 2 Purpose of Counselling

Lecture 3 Key Qualities of a Counsellor

Section 2: Section 2: Listening Skills

Lecture 4 Discriminative Listening

Lecture 5 Biased Listening

Lecture 6 Comprehensive Listening

Lecture 7 Evaluative Listening

Lecture 8 Appreciative Listening

Lecture 9 Empathetic Listening

Lecture 10 Therapeutic Listening

Section 3: Attending Skills

Lecture 11 Attending

Section 4: Reflecting and Paraphrasing

Lecture 12 Reflecting Skills

Section 5: Immediacy

Lecture 13 Immediacy

Section 6: Focusing

Lecture 14 Focusing

Section 7: Rapport Building

Lecture 15 Rapport Building

Section 8: Silence

Lecture 16 Silence

Section 9: Summarising

Lecture 17 Summarising

Section 10: Questions

Lecture 18 Questions

Section 11: Observation

Lecture 19 Observation

Section 12: The Counselling Process

Lecture 20 5 Stages of Counselling

Section 13: Confidentiality

Lecture 21 Confidentiality

Section 14: Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Lecture 22 Ethical Issues and Dilemmas

Section 15: The Use of Technology in Counselling

Lecture 23 The Use of Technology

Section 16: Multicultural Counselling

Lecture 24 Multicultural Counselling

Section 17: Developing Self Care and Resilience

Lecture 25 Developing Self Care and Resilience

Section 18: Supervision

Lecture 26 Supervision

Section 19: Terminating the Counselling Contract

Lecture 27 Terminating the Counselling Contract

Section 20: Referral

Lecture 28 Referral

Section 21: Recognising where you want to be

Lecture 29 Recognising where you want to be

Lecture 30 Record Keeping

Section 22: 19: Recommended Reading

Lecture 31 Recommended Reading

Section 23: 20: Conclusion

Lecture 32 Conclusion

Students, Professionals, Individuals looking to enhance their skills,Individuals who are interested in becoming Counsellors,Anyone who has an interest in learning counselling skills, and who has an opportunity to practice the people skills learned on the course, will benefit from enrolling in this Counselling Skills Course,This course is for everyone and can be applied to many occupations such as coaching, social work, management, leadership, teaching, and human resources.