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Diploma in Child & Youth Counselling

Online
Duration: Approximately 300 hours. Learn at your own pace, but ideally complete one module per week.
499

Course Content

How to change people’s lives for the better

This is a course where you can make a world of difference for children and young people. It’s a fascinating and highly detailed course where you’ll learn about theories of childhood development that include morality, cognition and  psychosocial; as well as develop core counselling skills. The modules in this course will provide you with the wonderful opportunity to learn about many specialist and generalist areas.

Course Modules​

Child Psychological Development

  1. Introduction to Child Psychology
  2. The newborn infant
  3. States and senses of the infant
  4. Learning
  5. Emotions
  6. Cognitive development
  7. Language development
  8. Intelligence
  9. Socialisation
  10. Sexuality & Morality

Adolescent Psychological Development

  1. Introduction
  2. Life Crises
  3. Physical Development
  4. Intellectual Development
  5. Emotional Development
  6. Sexuality
  7. Social Development
  8. Moral Development
  9. Adolescents and the Transition to Adulthood

Counselling Skills

  1. Learning specific counselling skills
  2. Listening and bonding
  3. Reflection
  4. Questioning
  5. Interview techniques
  6. Changing beliefs and normalising
  7. Finding solutions
  8. Ending the counselling

Course Details

CollegeCareer Academy
Course ID179246
Location PostcodeDublin 2
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationProfessional Qualification
Course DurationDuration: Approximately 300 hours. Learn at your own pace, but ideally complete one module per week.
Course TimeYou will have access to this course for up to 12 months until you complete.
Course Fee499
Course CodePSCI3015

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