Overview of Course
This course provides a comprehensive overview of basic counselling skills which are invaluable for Healthcare Staff to assist them in their work with patients and clients.
Aims of Course
The aim of this course is to equip nurses and allied healthcare professionals with counselling skills and techniques to empower them in the area of providing emotional support for their clients as they help them to work through periods of stress and distress both related and unrelated to their disease process.
Course Objectives
To help .healthcare professionals work with their clients and support them in processing their emotions during difficult times in their journey through illness by providing them with knowledge and skills in this important area of care
Target Audience
All nurses and health professionals interested in developing their counselling skills and knowled.
Course Curriculum
- Aims
- Towards a Definition of Counselling
- History and Evolution of Counselling
- Nurses and Counselling
- What Settings do Nurses Most Require Good Counselling Skills?
- Approaches to Counselling
- Counselling or Psychotherapy?
- Focus on Person Centred Approach
- Guiding principles of Person Centred Approach
- Qualities of the Counsellor
- Self Awareness
- The Counselling Relationship
- Boundaries
- Effective Communication Skills
- Therapeutic use of ‘Self’
- Directive vs Non-Directive
- Facilitating the ‘Story’
- Knowing your Limits
- Catharsis
- Congruence
- Unconditional Positive Regard
- What Constitutes a ‘Crisis’ in Counselling
- Use of Language
- Breaking Bad News
- Last Straw Syndrome
- Being Present in the Face of Emotional Anguish
- Personality Types
- Common Counselling Terms
- Do’s and Don’ts of Counselling
- Protecting Yourself as a Counsellor
- Quiz
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