About this Course

The programme has been designed for:

• Interested participants who have no experience in counselling but are willing to gain a basic entry qualification to professional counselling.
  
• Professionals who wish to develop counselling skills and knowledge for application in their work areas such as in health, social services, educational, customer service, human resource and supervisory work settings.
  
• Interested people with aspiration of becoming relationship and marital counsellor.
  
• Professionals who wish to improve their skills and working with couples and helping them with their issues.
  
• Couples who want to have more awareness on themselves and learn how to handle their own relationships.
  

The programme provides participants with:

• A professional basic entry qualification to counselling
  
• Opportunities for personal growth
  
• Acquisition of crucial interpersonal skills and related knowledge.
  
• An entry level qualifications in relationship and marital counselling
  
• A knowledge on nature and issues on relationship and marriage as well as different techniques on counselling couples
  

The programme aims to:

• Provide a basic level of knowledge about major approaches to counselling and psychotherapy.
  
• Provide training in basic counselling skills and practice introduce the ethical and professional issues faced by counsellors in human service industries.
  
• Introduce a basic level of knowledge and skills in working with different client groups and specific client issues.
  
• Provide training for aspiring relationship and marital counsellors.
  

The programme features:

• Integrates the 3 areas salient to counsellor training programmes:
  
• Personal growth
  
• Theoretical and research-based knowledge in counselling psychology
  
• Skills in counselling.
  
• Students are taught a range of counselling skills that can be applied across work settings and client groups.
  
• Focuses on developing counsellor awareness including:
  
• How the student’s interpersonal style affects the counselling process
  
• Students learning to reflect and learn from their training experiences.
  
• Knowledge in understanding relationship and marriage.
  
• Foundations skills on relationship and marriage counselling
  
• Teaching Methods and Assessment
  

The programme will be delivered through lectures, group discussions, practical demonstrations, video presentations, practical and experiential exercises, case studies, and role-plays. Students will be assessed through written assignments, projects, oral presentations, and videotaped counselling project/examination.

Admission Requirements

To be eligible for admission to the course, applicants must fulfil the following conditions:

• Diploma holders in any field
  
• Be at least 18 years of age
  
• Mature-aged applicants not meeting the admission requirements are invited to apply as the program recognises relevant life experiences that students bring with them.
  
• Applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
  
• Applicants may need to attend an interview.
  

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