Home Study
Counselling, Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
This Home Study Diploma Course in Counselling, Psychotherapy Psychoanalysis will introduce you to the many aspects and career opportunities of the Counselling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis field. The course is best suited to those seeking personal development and those seeking to enhance and supplement existing professions such as teaching, human resource management and nursing. It is also suitable as a foundation to further study.
Learning Objectives and Course Benefits
This Home Study course in Counselling and Psychotherapy aims to provide you with effective training in both the theory and techniques of counselling and psychotherapy. Further the course will enable you to develop your own therapeutic style, while gaining an insight into different theoretical and practical skills required in the field of psychotherapy. This Diploma program is presented in jargon-free form and includes many practical case studies which makes it easily accessible to all people, irrespective of previous educational qualifications or professional experience.
Knowledge
By the end of this course students will have...- An understanding of the differences between counselling, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
- A firm grasp of the required Skills of counselling and the qualities and attitudes required of a professional counsellor.
- A better awareness of the various approaches of psychotherapy and the concepts and techniques used in each.
- A better understanding of Freud�s theory of psychoanalysis as well as the theories of major Post-Freudian schools.
Course Features
The following are some of the main features of our Diploma Program in Counselling and Psychotherapy:
- The course is broken up into 6 units, which will be sent out to you monthly. The important point to note is that each unit comprises reading material, followed up by two written assignments that you must complete and return to your tutor.
- The assignments are straightforward and relate directly to the reading material. They include short factual answers, personal responses/reactions to the reading material, self-development exercises, etc.
- On average the course will generally require 3-4 hours reading/study per week.
- The assignments will be graded by your tutor and returned to you.
- You may return your assignment work to your tutor using any of the following options:
• Monthly
• The first three assignment units halfway through the course, (ie. after month 3) or
• All assignment work together at the end of the course
- Specific dates will be supplied as you progress through the course.
- This allows great flexibility on your part and lets you decide the method that best suits you and your way of study. Whichever way you decide to submit the assignments, they will be graded by your tutor and returned to you at the earliest possible date.
- We also offer scope for flexibility of your progression through the course. Just in case you feel you do not have enough time at a particular point, for example, if you are going away, or if your work pressure is too great, then just let us know and we can delay sending out the next unit until you are in a position to continue.
- Finally on successful completion of all 6 units the Diploma in Counselling, Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis will be awarded.
Course Outline
Counselling
- Definitions of counselling
- The talking treatments - differences between counselling, psychotherapy & psychoanalysis
- Counselling in society
- Skills of counselling - confidentiality, exploration, listening, reflective skills, probing skills, challenging skills, self-disclosure, immediacy, goal-setting, evaluating.
- Counsellor qualities and attitudes � tolerance, discretion, sensitivity, congruence, empathy and unconditional positive regard.
- Self-knowledge including self-development, training, supervision and referral.
- Approaches in counselling � humanistic approach, psychodynamic approach, behavioural approach, eclectic approach.
- Counselling specific problems � alcohol misuse, abuse and addiction, anxiety, panic & phobia, bereavement, trauma & loss, depression, eating disorders, stress, victim support, family counselling.
- Counselling by telephone
- Co-counselling
Psychotherapy
- Defining psychotherapy
- Three approaches of psychotherapy
- The therapeutic relationship
- Common concerns � Does it work? Can therapy be harmful? What rights does a client have/not have?
- Various approaches of psychotherapy will be presented. For each approach the concepts, techniques and practice will be outlined together with a case study to illustrate the approach
- Transactional analysis
- Existential Psychotherapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Bio-energetic Psychotherapy
- Rational Emotive Therapy
- Primal Therapy
- Person-centred therapy
- Personal Construct Therapy
- Psycho-synthesis
- Systems Therapy
Psychoanalysis
- Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis
- The role of the unconscious
- The interpretation of dreams
- Sexuality and psychosexual development
- Id, ego and superego states
- Defence mechanisms including: repression, suppression, denial, sublimation, projection, reaction-formation, displacement, identification, compensation
- The therapeutic relationship � transference and counter-transference
- Developments since Freud. An Introduction to the major Post-Freudian schools
- Carl Jung
- Erik Erikson
- Heinz Kohut
- Alfred Adler
- Otto Rank
- Erich Fromm
- Anna Freud
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Karen Horney
- Melanie Klein
Note: The cost of the course is €595 and is payable on commencement. This cost covers administration, all reading/study material (there will be no need to buy any additional books) and a Diploma in COunselling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis on successful completion of the course.
