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CPCAB Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills (500/7938/4)
Times: 13:00 - 16:00
Overview
Overview
The main topics are:
- Use counselling skills ethically and safely
- Establish and sustain the boundaries of the helping role
- Work empathically as a helper
- Focus on the helpee’s needs and concerns
- Use self- awareness in helping work
- Use a range of counselling skills to facilitate the helping interaction
- Use feedback and reflection to enhance counselling skills
Attendance:
30 weeks, part-time, three hours per week.
Students must be over 18.
You will be required to have a conversation with a member of the course team prior to enrolment to ensure eligibility.
You must have a level of spoken and written English that allows you to complete the assessment requirements of the course, such as a GCSE or Essentials skills qualification.
In addition, due to the nature of this course it is not suitable for those who are currently in a state of severe emotional difficulty or psychological confusion.
The following are identified by CPCAB as criteria considered important for selecting candidates:
- Able to cope with course content
- Ability to translate intra-personal experience into language
- Able to benefit from self-development
- Be motivated towards developing as a helper
- Emotional stability
- Identify reasons for training beyond just personal development
- Awareness of difference and diversity
Fees:
Academic period 2025:
Examination / Registration Fee = £189.00
FE Tuition Fee = £230.00 (Concessionary = £138.00)
Fees are payable annually.
To achieve the qualification, candidates must:
- be internally assessed (through weekly course work and observation of skills) as Proficient in all 7 learning units.
- present a range of evidence types, through portfolio development, skills observation and learning records.
Show competency in skills observations.
Careers
Employment / Further Study
This qualification is designed to give learners the underpinning knowledge, skills and competencies to use counselling skills ethically and safely in a variety of contexts and roles.
This qualification is for:
- Those interested in the first level of training as a professional counsellor
- Those who want to learn counselling skills in other professional or helping roles
- Those who want to improve their professional and personal relationships as part of personal development.
This qualification could lead to employment or increase employability for those whose role is to support others in e.g. health and social care work, teaching and learning, advocacy and mediation, support and project work, other helping roles. It provides additional skills for those already in employment likely to lead to increased opportunities for promotion and advancement.
This course won’t teach you how to be a counsellor but may help you decide whether or not to continue with counselling training.
On completion, progression to the CPCAB Level 3 Certificate in Counselling Studies is possible, which may further lead to progression onto the CPCAB Level 4 Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling, following which registration as a counsellor is possible.
Further information about the Certificate may be found on the CPCAB website.
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