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This is a
comprehensive short course in counselling for
those who help people either voluntarily or in
the course of their job, vocation or profession.
The course is suitable for charity volunteers,
nurses, care workers, advice workers, pastors,
teachers, doctors, social workers, community
workers, police officers, probation officers,
lawyers, complementary medicine practitioners,
coaches, hypnotherapists, funeral directors,
managers, hairdressers, beauticians and anyone
who finds him/herself often in the position of
listening to other people’s problems without a
qualification in counselling.
Qualified
counsellors and psychotherapists will also
benefit from this unit, as a refresher and as an
appreciation of the common-sense and human core
of basic counselling which can be forgotten by
those whose training depends heavily on
techniques or giving information.
This unit
focuses on such issues as the nature of the
counselling relationship, what to do and what not
to do, the process of listening, and when to
reveal one’s own feelings. It also provides a
useful overview of professional diagnosis
by psychologists or psychiatrists, and
of what every helper should know about
mental health diagnosis, drugs and alcohol, seriously
disturbed people, depression, stress,
personality disorders, counselling persons with
sexual problems, HIV/AIDS patients, suicide,
death and emergencies.
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