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Training for School Counsellors

Online
1.5-3 hours
Free

Course Content

Learn how school counsellors build healthy relationships through good communication in this free online course. Counselling in schools is a rising field of study. Many children and adolescents need to talk to someone outside their immediate circle of family and friends during periods of mental or physical distress. This course explains these challenges and how to approach them from a counselling perspective. We also show you how to use technology to advise students and families and how to handle children with psychological and behavioural problems.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID188133
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration1.5-3 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathIn This Free Course, You Will Learn How To
• List the five defined types of counselling methods used by most counsellors
• Identify problem-solving and decision-making tasks in school counselling
• Explain how to make effective use of information in school counselling
• Describe the duties and responsibilities of a school counsellor
• Outline how to counsel children with psychological problems
• Discuss how to communicate with suicidal adolescents during school counselling
Course Code5239

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