Qualification: CPCAB Advanced Diploma

Level: Level 4

Mode: Part-time

Start Date: September 2013

You will need to have completed the CPCAB Intermediate Certificates in Counselling Skills and Counselling Studies or equivalent. If you need advice before you apply, please call 020 8326 2020 or email ciag@west-thames.ac.uk.

You will study the following (all units are compulsory):

• Working ethically and safely as an agency counsellor
• Working within a counselling relationship
• Working with client diversity
• Working within a user-centred agency approach
• Working with self-awareness in the counselling process
• Working within a framework of counselling theory and skills
• Working self-reflectively as an agency counsellor.

The course will give you an opportunity to:

• Develop ethical and safe practice as an agency counsellor
• Learn how to develop and sustain a therapeutic counselling relationship
• Understand and work with client diversity
• Become a capable practitioner within a user-centred agency approach
• Develop self awareness within the counselling process
• Work within a core model of counselling theory and skills
• Work self-reflectively as an agency counsellor making effective use of supervision.

You will be expected to build a portfolio. The three assessments used throughout the training are review of documents, assessed observation, and testimony. This ensures that all aspects of the seven processes of practitioner development are evidenced. These assessment methods will assess training programme assignments and look at the evidence from the agency setting, and will provide the quantity and type of evidence required to satisfy criteria.

Assessments are designed to assess your understanding of the professional framework. External assessment is based on a role play between counsellor and client and a written assessment based on an evaluation of the practical work and counselling process.