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Certificate in Essential Counselling Skills (GCD)

Dublin
10 weeks
EUR 800.00

Course Content

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.

Course Details

CollegeGriffith College Dublin (GCD)
Course ID182641
Course LocationDublin
Location PostcodeDublin 8
Course TypeClassroom Based
Course QualificationAward / Certificate
Awarding Body DetailsCertificate in Essential Counselling Skills
Course Duration10 weeks
Course TimeThis course will run one evening per week from 6pm to 9pm over 10 Weeks
Course FeeEUR 800.00
Entry RequirementsOpen entry to participants who have an interest in studying the field of counselling.
Career PathAcademic 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.

Course Provider

Griffith College Dublin (GCD)

South Circular Road, Dublin City South, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. Eircode: D08V04N

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