Unit 1

Ethical framework for counselling

• Understanding of ethical framework and legal procedures
• Working within limits of proficiency
• Client assessment and ethical referral
• Confidentiality and Integrity

Unit 2

The Counselling Relationship

• Nature and constraints of the counsellor
• Boundaries of the counsellor role and counselling practice
• The counselling relationship and the counselling work
• Stages of the counselling relationship

Unit 3

Differences and diversity issues in Counselling

• Awareness of diversity issues
• Range of diversity issues in wider social context
• Diversity issues within personal relationships

Unit 4

 Defining the main theoretical approaches to counselling

• Psychodynamic theory
• Cognitive behavioural theory
• Person-centred theory
• The integrative model

Unit 5

Theories of counselling and mental health

• Identifying and understanding common mental health problems
• Research on mental health issues
• Promoting positive mental health
• Use counselling theory to understand and help the client

Unit 6

Working within a user-friendly approach to counselling

• Establishing the client’s needs and expectations
• Maintaining focus on client agenda and needs
• Use of sensitivity to identify client’s needs
• Importance of listening to client’s agenda

Unit 7

Using feedback, reflection and supervision to support counselling studies

• Use feedback from others to develop an understanding of counselling
• Give constructive feedback to other counselling trainees
• Describe the nature and use of clinical supervision

Use supervisee skills.