This play therapy course has been accredited by PTUK.

Enquiries to: college@huntingdon.ac.uk

Tel: 01480 379230/1

(Ms Lynne Souter-Anderson)

Skills for Counselling Young People

Designed For	Objectives	Course Structure
Learning Methods	Duration	Award	Venue
Faculty	Course Provider	Fees	Dates

The course is designed for workers in the caring professions who already work alongside children and adolescents and/or have some counselling skills training.  The course is at stage 1 of the PTUK four stage training model

Learning Objectives	Aims of Course: To enhance participants' ability to work with children and adolescents (7-16 yrs.) To relate the use of counselling skills to workplace and agency settings To raise awareness of the legal and ethical issue involved when working with children and adolescents, particularly Child Protection matters and codes of ethics To enhance participants' professional and personal development At the end of the course participants will: Have an understanding of appropriate counselling skills and processes relevant to childhood developmental stages when working with 7-16yr olds Have a heightened awareness of working within Child Protection regulations and guidance Be able to demonstrate their own communication processes through the acquisition of creative skills when using imagery and imagination Understand more fully the role of the counsellor when working with young people and will be able to consider more effectively whether or not to continue with further training in this specialist field Have had the benefit of experiencing working in a peer learning environment where participants will have had the opportunity to share their own specific contributions
Course Structure	Unit 1 Developmental theories and life stages. Consideration will be given to the fact that many practising counsellors use a combination of more than one theory. Unit 2 Considers the role of counselling young people and will provide the context for the learning of skills to use imagery and the imagination, whilst paying particular attention to the legal/ethical frameworks. Unit 3 Facilitates a look at one's own attributes with regard to working with young people in a counselling setting and to develop further awareness through the use of creative processes
Learning Methods	Seminars Full group discussions Small group discussions Pair work Trio work Role plays Practise sessions Participant presentations Personal refection Weekly process journal Peer group feedback Group processing Tutor feedback Tutorials Participation in creative play/art activities Pre-session reading
Duration	34 x 3 hour weekly sessions - Thursdays 4pm - 7pm Plus 3 Saturday Play Days of 6hrs each
Award	PTUK Certificate - Skills for Counselling Young People
Venue	Huntingdonshire Regional College
Faculty / Facilitators	Ms Lynne Souter-Anderson
Provider	Huntingdonshire Regional College
Fees	(Apply to college)
Dates	(Apply to college)

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