How we listen and respond to people in our daily lives is important. We may think we listen and pay attention, but do we really? Counselling skills is a useful course that considers the way we respond to others, looking at active listening, paraphrasing, feedback and more. A useful course for anyone who works or communicates with other people.\" Tracey Jones, B.Sc. (Hons) (Psychology), M.Soc.Sc (social work), DipSW (social work), PGCE (Education), PGD (Learning Disability Studies)

<span span="" style="\" font-family:"="">Develop your ability to support or counsel others through the processes of personal growth and change. The skills and knowledge gained from this course can help you help others overcome limiting thinking and replace feelings of helplessness with productive behaviours such as goal-setting.

Learning Specific Skills - Learning methods; the counselling role

• Reflection: Paraphrasing - Reflection of feeling; client responses to reflection of feelings; reflection of content and feeling
• Interview Techniques - Summarising; confrontation; reframing
• Finding Solutions - Making choices; facilitating actions; gestalt awareness; psychological blocks
• Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school\'s tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

• Demonstrate the skills involved in commencing the counselling process and evaluation of non-verbal responses and minimal responses.
• Develop different questioning techniques and to understand risks involved with some types of questioning.
• Demonstrate self-destructive beliefs and show methods of challenging them, including normalising.
• Demonstrate effective ways of terminating a counselling session and to explain ways of addressing dependency.

• Identify the learning methods available to the trainee counsellor.
• Identify why trainee counsellors might be unwilling to disclose personal problems during training.
• Discuss different approaches to modelling, as a form of counselling
• Identify the counsellor’s primary role (in a generic sense).
• Explain the importance of different types of non-verbal response in the counselling procedure.
• Identify an example of paraphrasing as a minimal response to reflect feelings.
• Differentiate catharsis from confused thoughts and feelings.
• <span span="" style="\" font-family:"="">Identify an example of reflecting back both content (thought) and feeling in the same phrase.