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Counselling Development

The Student Counselling Service website contains a number of useful links to resources and further support on a range of areas including bereavement, drug abuse and depression. There is also a Staff Counselling page for staff who feel they would benefit from this service

9-Week Counselling Development Course 2012

The 2012 course will begin on Thursday 19th January.

This is a 9 week course facilitated by Dr Bill Merrington. It is designed to develop skills in listening to students’ problems and issues in the context of helping relationships which can facilitate positive change.  It is based on Carl Rogers’ principles that underpin many models of counselling. However, each week we will also briefly look at other models such as bereavement counselling, psychotherapy, problem solving, cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), narrative therapy, play therapy etc. The course concludes with a recorded counselling session providing feedback from the course tutor.

It provides experiential development in some key skills which can be used in an informal way.  It is compatible with and serves as an introduction to formal counselling courses for staff who might wish to develop their skills further.

Full course material and a certificate of attendance will be provided to participants.

Who is it for?

  • Anyone who meets students regularly on a one to one basis with whom a student might want or need to share issues. Participants may be academic or professional and support staff.

Topics covered:

  • Definition of counselling skills
  • Listening
  • Empathy
  • Acceptance
  • Genuineness
  • Boundaries
  • The helping process
  • Working together
  • Confronting
  • Ending a process of helping
  • External resources and limitations

Structure

Thursday evenings starting at 6pm and finishing at 9pm commencing Thursday 19th January and running until 29th March inclusive (excluding 16th February and 22nd March).  All sessions will take place in the Chaplaincy (first floor of Talbot House, Talbot Campus).

The maximum number of course participants will be 15 and one tutor.  Each session starts with a full group teaching and discussion session on the week’s topic(s) followed by experiential work in small groups of three or four to practice the taught skills.

There will also be a practise one-to-one counselling session, during which you will have an opportunity to be videoed, using your counselling skills. This will be followed by a one-to-one feedback session with the tutor. This will take place between 19th and 21st March 2012. There will be no meeting 22nd March.

Interested?

Application Form

Course Outline (PDF version of the details on this page)

Please complete and return your application form by Tuesday 20th December.  Forms should be addressed to Counselling Course Applications, c/o Staff Development Office, Room DL103, Talbot Campus.  Please put your own name in the bottom left corner of the envelope so that we know who has applied.  Thank you.

If you have an enquiry, please email Staff Development

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