This course focuses on the skills of counselling individuals including the counselling relationship and the development of the counsellor. Students examine the skills and strategies involved in counselling specifically in area of addiction. Content areas build on those covered in Basic Counselling Skills and introduce the concept of Motivational Interviewing. Topics include the counselling process, understanding and practicing the skills involved in all phases of the counselling relationship, record keeping, ethical obligations and emerging self-awareness and self-care. The central purpose of this course is to provide participants with experiential learning regarding the client-counsellor relationship and to analyze the issues that emerge from this work with a specific focus in the area of addiction.
Course code: CNSK 1406
Credits: 3.0
Tuition: $0*
Length: 45.0 hours
Course outline:
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- review Ethics / Self-awareness
- review of beginning stage counselling skills
- transcript preparation
- contracting and assessment
- stages and skills in counselling
- review of empathy and core conditions
- record keeping and case notes
- goal setting skills
- keeping a focus
- introducing process skills: immediacy, confrontation, self disclosure
- questions / probes and concreteness
- review advanced empathy
- overview of the process of change
- introduction to a strength based perspective
- working with resistance
- termination and follow up or referral
- transference and counter-transference
- working with difficult situations
- Trans-theoretical Model of Change/ Stages of Change
- Motivational Interviewing
- Developmental Model of Recovery
Prior learning assessment and recognition (PLAR)
VCC – Individual Counselling Skills for SA
How do I apply for this course?
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
* Fees are approximate and subject to change. Students are required to pay any applicable fee increases. Fees listed are for domestic students. For international programs, visit VCC International.
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.
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