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ñ 100 About Awareness
- Know Yourself |
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(25 contact
hours) |
Pre-requisite: Know Yourself PART
1 |
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25 contact hours in experiential
activities in Know Yourself PART 1 |
| Home study and three assignments about personal, interpersonal and group
awareness. |
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ñ 101
About Counselling Theory 1 |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: 100 |
| includes: the counsellor at work - professionalism, confidentiality, the
venue, ethics and litigation; a platform for counselling - holistic and
systemic concepts; systemic organisation, control, energy, and case
examples; a counselling framework - engagement and counter engagement,
identifying client/s' issues, change and working for change, closure; six
principles for counselling practice. Other counselling frameworks, eg Gerard
Egan's framework is considered and compared with the Anglican Counselling
Service's framework. |
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ñ 102
About Counselling Practice 1 |
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Minimum
of 50 contact hour required |
Pre-requisite: 100 |
| includes: face to face practice with basic skills (Microskills) to help
people unburden - attending (listening and observing) and responding
(minimal responses and reflective responses, summary and empathy); helping
people to explore - questions, confronting and challenging, processing.
Using strategies - including: absent-other, internal split; genograms;
metaphors; scaling techniques; time lines, etc |
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ñ 103
About People |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: 100 |
| includes introduction and discussion about:
post modernity, globalisation and world views; concepts of normalcy -
individuals, couples, families; holism and systems in individuals;
the spiritual self and some belief expressions. |
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ñ 105
About Mental Wellness |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: 100 |
| includes introduction and discussion about:
overview of psychological health; cognition, volition, affect and their
expressions. |
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ñ 200
About the Theory of Communication |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: 100 |
| includes: the nature and essence of communication; the influences of
individual differences, gender, culture, and subcultures; effective and
ineffective communication in daily life; good and bad habits; teaching
people to communicate; lateral thinking; public speaking (introduction). |
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ñ 201
About Counselling Theory 2 |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| includes: introduction to emotion inclusive therapy (EIT) - focusing on and
working with emotions; using EIT with individuals, and situations including
guilt, fear, anger. Explores frequently used models of counselling including
systemic concepts with individuals, couples, and families, using information
from Gerald Corey (2001) Theory and Practice of Counselling and
Psychotherapy, chapters 4-13. Students are required to outline the
beginnings of Family Therapy, Structural Therapy, Systems Theory, Brief
Therapy, and the Milan Model, including the development of contemporary
therapy through to Narrative Therapy (Michael White). Contemporary
developments in Marriage and Family therapy are explored through journal
articles and inservice programmes and applied when they meet LRCCS standards
and the student's own personal philosophy as expressed in Unit 102. |
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ñ 202
About Counselling Practice 2 |
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Minimum of
75 contact hour required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1,
Co-requisite 201 |
| includes: conducting at least one counselling programme each with an
individual, a couple, and a family in real and role sessions with up to 3 or
more consecutive sessions. Master classes using case studies in problem
identification, mapping family patterns; introducing change; integrating
emotion with cognition and behaviour within couple and family situations,
including emotion inclusive strategies, communication and systemic
approaches to marriage and family issues. In this unit the skills used in
counselling individuals are practiced and honed with couples and families. |
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ñ 211
Emotion Inclusive Therapy |
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Minimum 20
contact hours |
Pre-requisite: Partial RPL 201/202 |
| This unit has been established for people wanting to study emotion in
counselling. It includes the main concepts relating to working with Emotion
Inclusive Therapy (EIT) - and focuses on and works with emotions; using EIT
with individuals, and situations including guilt, fear and anger. Also
explores working with emotions in couple therapy using the interactive
cycle. Compliance with practical work sessions is compulsory. |
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ñ 212
Christian Counselling - What's That? |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| includes: information for people wishing to work within any church
denomination or any para-church organisation. The course is not specifically
about the Anglican faith. It challenges people's stereotypical views and
expectations of Christians and Christianity in our world where the only
constant is change. It is based in neo-evangelical Christian thinking. It
compares and contrasts different Christian counselling models. |
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ñ 213
Grief, Loss and Depression |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| includes: definitions of key words; the process of grieving; losses from
conception to death; sudden traumatic deaths (including suicide) to extended
palliative care; the euthanasia debate; principles and practice of
bereavement counselling; counselling the dying; caring for those left
behind; making new starts; planning programmes for those who have
experienced losses; disasters and post traumatic stress; normal and
unresolved grief. |
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ñ 214
Art, Sand, Dreams and Drama |
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Minimum of
20 contact hours |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| includes: expressing our inner selves in raw art and sand activities, dream
work and psychodrama; study includes observation and theory, materials
required, methodology, counselling technique including process of awareness
gained using art/sand and drama with integration of the outcomes of each
medium presented in the counselling programme. |
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ñ 215
Counselling Children and Adolescents |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 & 201 |
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includes:
Children: attachment and
developmental theories; directive and non-directive models of therapy;
qualities required by therapists; the playroom; specific problems -
aggression, anger, withdrawal, anxiety, fear, insecurity, loners and
loneliness, guilt, hyperactive children; stress and trauma.
Adolescents: assessment
strategies, changes in functioning, behavioural consequences, identification
of problem behaviour, influences of environment, communication & language
disorders, personality type & temperament, learning propensity, social
skills - Asperger's, autism, ADD, genetic history, culture, parenting,
framework for therapy, depression, anxiety, and change. |
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ñ 216
Educating Adults |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| This elective selects aspects from Units 303 - 8 and 304 - 8 (Adult &
Community Education/Community Education Practical) and is offered here to
help counsellors and pastoral carers approach skills formation from an adult
education perspective. It encourages counsellors and carers to use the
principles and practices of adult education to maximise the educative
programme within relationship counselling when it is obvious that skills are
required by both partners to enable them to relate more effectively. |
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ñ 217
Managing Groups |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| This elective selects aspects from Units 303 - 8 and 304 - 8 (Adult &
Community Education/Community Education Practical) and is offered here to
help counsellors and pastoral carers approach skills formation within group
settings. It focuses on group dynamics and management. |
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ñ 218
Caring for People |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: Level 1 |
| This elective selects aspects from Units 305 - 8 and 306 - 8 (Pastoral
Care). It includes a definition of Pastoral Care and discusses the
differences between care and counselling. The role of the church in
caring for people is explored as well as the ways of addressing the needs of
Carers (both family and professional). |
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ñ 219
Supervision and the Supervisors Role |
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No contact
hours required |
Pre-requisite: 500 supervised counselling
hours |
| The purpose of this unit is to provide counsellors, who have 500 hours or
more of counselling experience, with professional supervision training. It
includes: the theory of supervision; the supervisory process; developmental
stages within the supervision process; overview of the supervisor at work,
including practical aspects of conducting supervision (managing groups and
educating adults). |
