Counselling Skills Part 2

Overview

Join the Counselling Skills Part 2 course from Warnborough College and discover how to use counselling micro-skills including methods of telephone counselling and techniques for dealing with specific crisis situations – to improve your counselling. 

The role of the counsellor is to facilitate the person’s resolution of these issues, whilst respect their values, personal resources, culture and capacity for choice. Counselling can provide people with a regular time and space to talk about their problems and explore difficult feelings in a confidential and dependable environment.

Counsellors do not usually offer advice, but instead give insight into the client’s feelings and behaviour and help the client change their behaviour if necessary. They do this by listening to what the client has to say and commenting on it from a professional perspective.

Counselling covers a wide spectrum from the highly trained counsellor to some one who uses counselling skills as part of their role, for example, a nurse or teacher.

Aims

• The ability to explain the processes involved in the training of counsellors in micro skills.

• Demonstrate the skills involved in commencing the counselling process and evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.

• Demonstrate reflection of content, feeling, both content and feeling, and its appropriateness to the counselling process.

• Develop different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.

• Show how to use various micro-skills including summarising, confrontation, and reframing.

• To demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.

• Explain how counselling a client can improve their psychological well-being through making choices, overcoming psychological blocks and facilitating actions.

• Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.