Course Details and Syllabus
Course Qualification: Level 3 Certificate.
Awarding Organisation: TQUK (Training Qualifications UK) – An Ofqual Approved Awarding Organisation.
Accreditation Body 1: ACCPH – The Professional Body for Accredited Coaches, Counsellors, Psychotherapists and Clinical Hypnotherapists. Join ACCPH on completion and use the letters: MACCPH after your name.
Accreditation Body 2: The CMA - Complimentary Medicine Association. Join the CMA on completion and use the letters: MCMA after your name.
Course Duration: 100 Hours Approximate – Self-paced with no deadlines or end date by which the course must be completed.
Other Details: Start anytime, no pre-requisites, plus mentor support throughout your studies.
Course Fee: £340.00.
Learning Goals
To introduce the student to psychoanalytic counselling theory, its origins and applications, in particular the work of Sigmund Freud, Albert Jung and Erik Erikson.
Explain the principal differences between Adlerian and Freudian theory, key concepts of Adlerian theory, and the 4 stages of the Adlerian counselling process.
Describe the chief elements of the Gestalt approach and its application to the resolution of problems.
Explain the principles, goals and appropriate applications of person-centred approach to counselling.
Explain Albert Ellis’s views and the evolution of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), the stages involved in developing a rational philosophy of life, and the different techniques used by REBT’s
Explain the differences and similarities between Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and REBT, and the main ‘cognitive distortions’.
Describe characteristics of contemporary behavioural therapy and different problem-solving techniques adopted by behavioural therapists. Lesson Structure
1 Psychoanalytic psychotherapy l - 2 Psychoanalytical psychotherapy ll – Freud, Erikson, Jung Adler
Value and relevance of psychotherapy Alfred Adler Emergence of psychoanalytical theory Adler's key concepts Principles of psychoanalytical theory Inferiority vs superiority Elements of the personality What makes people self interested The notion of conscious and Social interest and community feeling unconscious Individual psychology Anxiety and psychoanalysis Inbuilt psychological coping and Psychological types: ruling type, leaning damage repair mechanisms type, avoiding type Defence mechanisms Sibling relationships Freuds psychosexual theory and Only child Erikson’s psychosocial theory First child, second child, youngest child Jung's perspective on personality Use of adlerian theory Archetypes Applications to counselling Freud and Adler Recent developments in Critique psychoanalytical theory
Goals of psychoanalytical approach 3 Humanistic/Existential approaches I - Psychoanalytic techniques Gestalt Therapy; Fritz Perls Analytic framework
Free associations Interpretation Introduction Dream analysis Human nature Resistance Holistic approach Transference Field theory Psychoanalytic approach and Figure-formation process counselling Organismic self regulation Personality disorders Focus on the present Critique for psychoanalytic theory Resolving dilemmas Personal maturity
The effect of contact
Effect of energy The experiment
Confrontation Gestalt techniques: Internal dialogue, reversal, rehersal, exaggeration, dream work, etc Critique
Lesson Structure
4 Humanistic/Existential approaches II 7 Behavioural therapy - Person-Centred Counselling; Carl Rogers Contemporary behavioural therapy Behavioural approach Humanistic therapy Goals ant techniques Principles of person centred approach Goals of therapy Personal attitude of the counsellor Use of behaviour therapy Goals of therapy Basic ID Assessment techniques Critique Areas of application Critique 8 Solution-focused counselling
5 Rational behavioural therapy - Albert Introduction Ellis Strategies in solution focussed counselling Rational emotive behaviour therapy Engaging the client (REBT) Constructing pathways for change Ellis's view of human nature Generating creative solutions Personality theory Critique Goals and techniques of therapy Therapeutic techniques
Cognitive techniques Emotive techniques Each lesson culminates in an assignment Use of REBT which is submitted to the academy and Critique marked by your tutor and returned to you
6 Cognitive behavioural therapy - Aa- with any relevant suggestions, comments, ron Beck and if necessary, extra reading
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and REBT Premises of CBT Cognitive distortions Use of cognitive therapy Family therapy Modifications to CBT Stress innoculation training program (SIT) Stages of SIT Constructivist modification