Counselling Skills II
COS208
Community Services & Counselling
Learning Method: Correspondence with online support or Disc Learning with online support

This course has been developed for people who want to build upon the skills gained in Counselling Skills l—more specifically, to draw those skills together, and expand into telephone counselling and more specific crisis situations. It is packed with practical psychology activities and you will have an academic textbook to guide you in your studies. In addition, you can access the online supplements and activities in the eLearning Centre to further practise and test your knowledge and skills. And you can talk with other students from all over the country in the Student Forum.

Materials: Your course includes College folder and student case, all modules (tutorials and assignment projects), textbooks, learning tools, tutor feedback and marking, College support, progressive Transcripts of Study, Graduate Awards and final Academic Transcripts, access to the eCampus, eNews, Student ID Pass, and access to educational discounts.

Advance your skills and knowledge from level 1 to level 2 with this wonderfully interactive course ...

This course has been developed for people who want to build upon the skills gained in Counselling Skills l—more specifically, to draw those skills together, and expand into telephone counselling and more specific crisis situations.

The Counselling Skills II Course expands your knowledge and skills in counselling and introduces you to telephone counselling and specific problem-solving techniques. Along with your progressive tutor support, the interactive, practical lessons will help you to learn about your own life and help others to manage and explore theirs.

Counselling Skills II looks at how the use of the different micro-skills covered in Counselling Skills l can be integrated into the counselling process. Through a series of step-by-step lessons, we look at how it is possible to combine skills to both facilitate and improve the likelihood of change. Obviously no two situations will ever be the same, but certain patterns will emerge.

This fabulous eight part course plus textbook and telephone counselling practice session has been developed by a professional counsellor to build upon the foundation counselling skills gained in level 1.

Through your course you will learn:

• about the different stages in counselling
• how to apply feedback through the counselling session
• about the difference between transference and counter-transference
• how to conduct a telephone counselling session
• about telephone counselling techniques (and participate in a telephone counselling role play with your tutor)
• about crisis counselling and the different responses: agression and violence, anger, chronic depression, grief and suicide.
• how to evaluate differenc risk situations
• apply problem-solving techniques in counselling.