About this Course

The course is designed for:

Parents, helpers, social workers, school based professionals and anyone keen to enhance their skills in handling their interactions with young people.

Many people who work with youths gain satisfaction and success from their work, yet a great deal of their contemporaries, discouraged by outcomes, experience much difficulty in coping.

The programme provides participants with:

A professional basic entry qualification to counselling children & youth.

Opportunities for personal growth

Acquisition of crucial interpersonal skills and related knowledge

Programme Objectives

The Specialist Diploma in Children & Youth Counselling aims to equip the individual with the know-how of detection and assessment ofchildren & at-risk youths through gaining an appreciation and awareness of the dynamics that lie beyond the delinquency of a child (i.e. the child’s personality, the family, peer group pressures, socioeconomic issues of poverty and minority status).

Award

Upon successfully completing the course, the ACC School of Counselling and Psychology will award students with a Specialist Diploma in Children & Youth Counselling.

Programme Duration

48 3-hour sessions held weekly.

Total Contact Hours: 144 Hours

Programme Structure

Classes are presented through a series of lively discussions as well as reflective and experiential activities. Participants are encouraged to consider how aspects of this course relate to their present concerns.

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