A Knowledge, Skills and Attitude Framework for Counselling OCN Level 4 Practice Course (Dip) accredited by ACC and OCN
Course Overview
This is a unique opprtunity to take part in a diploma course, structured to aid those who wish to further their knowledge and skills in Christian Counselling.
It is a 2-year course of 600 hours with 420 guided learning hours.
This programme has gained recognition from the Association of Christian Counsellors and the Open College Network and receives credits towards further and higher education.
This is a course which has been developed as a progression in learning for those who have completed both Level 2 and 3 courses in Christian Counselling with a recognised ACC agency or an equivalent course elsewhere.
This course involves students looking at and practising many areas of counselling skills. All students will be required to provide evidence of continuing counselling practice to a minimum of 50 hours per annum by the end of the Course. All files and handouts are supplied.
The Course is built around four major components:
Audio Visual Workshop
Students use audio and visual recordings of their work to review and analyse a series of counselling sessions.
Eclectic Skills Workshop
Students will research specific counselling approaches and write a paper to be presented in a workshop format to fellow students with demonstration, illustrative exercies, and interactive feedback.
Case Study Forum
Students will present case studies to a small group of fellow students for supervision, set within a wider group. This outer circle will in turn observe the inner group's supervision, expanding this into a dynamic groupwork exercise.
Current Issues in Counselling
The course will include one day workshops with specialist speakers, tutorial groupwork and projects, didactic sessions with trainers, and supervision.Students will use teaching from course trainers as well as their own literature and media research to explore, discuss and evaluate the current significant issues in the field of counselling at the time of the course.
There will be a continuous assessment of skills, attitudes, self-awareness, knowledge, participation in groupwork, written assignments, and attendance.
To qualify for this course the student must:
• Show a commitment to ongoing professional development by membershipof a professional accrediting body
• Be working towards accredited membership of a professional body through supervised practice and maintaining a training portfolio and counselling log
• Show a good theoretical grasp of their own counselling model and technique
• Have an adequate level of experience and competence to actively contribute to the course and to gain from interactive work
• Provide a Minister's reference, Supervisor's reference, Counselling Director/Employer's reference (if applicable), evidence of previous training, and counselling log.
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