Essential Elements of Counselling Young People
University of the West of England, Bristol
Delivery Method: Face-to-face To apply you must be a BACP Student Member or equivalent, currently training on the UWE BACP diploma level 1 adult counselling training or be an already qualified counsellor.
The course is offered at Level 2 (introductory) and is delivered at our Frenchay Campus.
Course content includes:- Operating within professional and ethical guidelines
- Contracting for therapeutic work
- Working within the context of the setting (e.g. school)
- Monitoring outcomes and onward referral
- Skills practice/case discussion
- Legal frameworks relating to young people
- Collaborative assessments
- Skills practice/case discussion
- Development in young people
- Child protection issues
- Skills practice/case discussion/interventions and techniques
- Communicating with young people of differing ages, developmental level and background
- Mental health and young people
- Skills practice/case discussion/interventions and techniques
- Ethical and value issues associated with counselling children and young people including those of equality of opportunity and working with diversity
- Consideration of personal and philosophical assumptions that have been influenced by reading and personal experience and the implications of this on the choice of therapeutic intervention
- Skills practice/case discussion/interventions and techniques.
Delivery:
The course is delivered via five days of approximately 7 hour teaching sessions. This includes a broad range of teaching activities such as lectures, group work, skills practice, tutorials, demonstrations and experiential exercises.
