Course Description
Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills (GCD)
Griffith College Dublin (GCD)
Develop key life skills essential for counselling and a wide range of other professions
The Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills is delivered by the Irish College of Humanities & Applied Sciences (ICHAS) and serves as an excellent introduction to the area of counselling.
This course focuses on the development of professional skills; while it does not sit on the national framework, the module is drawn from ICHAS’s suite of QQI-validated degree programmes. This course leads to an ICHAS certificate.
Course Details:
- The value of respect and genuineness.
- Characteristics of effective counselling.
- How to question effectively and phrasing enquiries to avoid offence.
- Attending, listening and understanding communication.
- The helping relationship & the culture of helping.
- Goal setting within the client relationship
- The therapeutic/working alliance.
- Paraphrasing, clarifying and summarising communication.
- Reflecting content and feeling
This is an ICHAS course delivered by ICHAS at Griffith College Dublin.
Dublin, Ireland
| College Name | Griffith College Dublin (GCD) |
| Course Category | Counselling & Psychotherapy, Health Care |
| Course Type | Classroom Based |
| Course Qualification | Award / Certificate |
| Course Location | Dublin, Ireland |
| Location Postcode | Dublin 8 |
| Course Fee | EUR 800.00 |
| Course Duration | 10 weeks |
| Course Times | This course will run one evening per week from 6pm to 9pm over 10 Weeks |
| Title of Awarding | Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills |
| Entry Requirements | Open entry to participants who have an interest in studying the field of counselling. |
| Career Path | Academic Progression: Graduates of the Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills course are eligible to advance to progress to any of the Level 7 BA programmes in the field of Counselling Skills & Psychotherapy Studies, Counselling Skills & Addiction Studies or Counselling Skills and Youth Studies within ICHAS. Career Progression: Graduates of the Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills will have a good basis for professional progression in the counselling sector while they will have developed key life skills that can be applied freely to other professions. |
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