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Level 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling

OLL327

Are you interested in working in counselling or developing your existing skills? This Level 4 and 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling will provide you with a solid foundation of knowledge to build your career on.

Course duration

Up to 2 years.

Course outcome

You will receive a Level 4 and 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling awarded by AccordAI. You can also achieve up to 240 learning credits which can be put towards future studies.

Entry requirements

Students must hold a level 3 diploma or an A Level qualification (or higher) before enrolling on this diploma.

Assessment

Tutor-marked assignments.

Study Options

This course is only available to study online.

Study Options

 
£3,799.00
or £127.84 /month*
Course code: OLL327

*Pay monthly option available via Snap Finance on payment page in checkout

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Course overview

  • Accredited level 4 and 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling
  • Achieve up to 240 learning credits which can be used towards future studies.
  • Discover counselling strategies for a range of clients, including children, adults, families, and couples.
  • Learn how to support someone through bereavement, addiction, or death.
  • Study cognitive behavioural therapy and explain its approaches.

This level 4 and 5 Diploma in Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling focussed on developing your counselling skills. You’ll develop your understanding of counselling topics including relationships, families, bereavement, addiction, and debt, as well as counselling for children and cognitive behavioural therapy.

What is person-centred therapy?

The therapist will see humans has having an innate tendency to develop towards their full potential, which can be blocked by life experience, especially those that affect our sense of value. They will work to understand those experiences from the individuals perspective, with the aim of facilitating their ability to self-achieve and giving them the belief that they will grow and fulfil their potential.

Course content

  • Setting up an ePortfolio
  • Independent research
  • Communicating ideas
  • Reflective writing
  • Pro-active implementation of skills

  • Approaches and applications
  • Psychology and psychiatry
  • Humanist approach
  • Experimental processes

  • The psychodynamic approach
  • Personality
  • Behaviour
  • Counsellors
  • Face to face meetings

  • Adolescents
  • Therapeutic environment
  • Skills and strategies
  • Communicating
  • Goals
  • Relationships
  • Transference

  • Resolution strategies
  • Projection tendencies
  • Life patterns
  • Relationship attachments
  • Loss
  • Triangulation
  • Models and approaches

  • Family systems
  • Definitive roles
  • Differentiate
  • Negative problems
  • Physical attraction
  • The fragmented family
  • Traditional approaches
  • Research outcomes
  • Interventions

  • Bereavement
  • Grieving process
  • Transference
  • Influencing factors
  • Social and cultural aspects

  • Suicide
  • War
  • Terrorism
  • Violence
  • Continually searching for reasons
  • Role the deceased
  • Meaning to losses

  • Positive and beneficial addiction
  • Negative and harmful addiction
  • Tolerance and withdrawal
  • Relapse
  • Human addiction

  • Alcohol addiction
  • The Cycle of Change
  • The Twelve Step Approach
  • Approaches and outcomes
  • Negotiation
  • Self-belief

  • Nicotine
  • Heroin
  • Cocaine
  • Psychological addiction
  • Gambling
  • Obesity
  • Counselling approaches

  • Debt
  • Legal ways
  • Prejudices
  • Facilitator

  • Assessment
  • Programme of therapy
  • Implementing changes
  • Confidentiality

  • CBT and depression
  • CBT and obsessive compulsive disorder
  • CBT and PTSD
  • CBT and panic disorders
  • CBT and phobias and fears

  • Personality
  • Anxiety disorders
  • Long-term exposure
  • Predisposition

  • Observational learning
  • Self-instruction
  • Maladaptive thoughts and beliefs, and adjustments
  • Rejection of negativity
  • Confronting stressors
  • Relaxation and focusing exercises

Awarding body

AccordAI provide prestigious UK qualifications, widely acclaimed for their global recognition and esteemed reputation. Renowned for their high quality and rigorous standards, these qualifications are recognised by governments, universities, and employers worldwide.

Extra information

You are required to create an ePortfolio. After each unit, you will have to send your work by email to your tutor. This means you will have 16 tutor-marked assessments. You will also have to take part in self-assessment activities, do your own independent research and conduct your own reflective journal.

You may start at any time and have up to two years to complete your studies. We suggest that each unit within the course will take approximately 140 hours to complete. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.

This course will allow you to work at home or at work. All materials for the course will be received online. You will also get tutor support by email.

On completion of this course, you will receive both Level 4 and 5 Diplomas in Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling.

You will also achieve up to 240 learning credits which can be used toward future studies. This course can be used to help you secure a place on a level 6 degree or diploma.

Please note that university entry requirements can differ, so we recommend you consult with your preferred universities to check that they will allow you to study with them after completing this course.

There are several avenues you can go down once you have successfully completed this course. You could take a look at our other counselling courses to build on your knowledge and skills. If you want to work in counselling using your Therapeutic Person-Centred Counselling Level 5 qualification, you will be able develop the skills of counselling, either within an agency or a private setting. You will also be able to take on a senior counselling role in an organisational context. Here are just a few of the things you can do after you have gained experience:

  • Specialise in a certain area like relationships, addiction, or bereavement
  • Become a counsellor supervisor or trainer
  • Work for yourself by setting up your own practice
  • Move into consultancy or management

FAQs

All students must be 17 years of age and above. Students must hold a Level 3 diploma or an A Level qualification (or higher) before enrolling on this diploma.

You may start at any time and have two years to complete your studies. It is truly flexible and is designed to fit around your lifestyle and other commitments.

You will send your work by email to your personal course tutor for them to mark and return to you.

That's not a problem. We want to make sure you're 100% confident about enrolling on the course and starting your study. So, just give our team of education specialists a call on 03300 563 100 and they'll do their best to help.