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Counselling Interview Skills

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Qualification

Short Course: Counselling Interview Skills

Course Code

DPC3C – Apply Counselling Interview Skills

Entry Requirements

Short Course - Interpersonal Communication Skills for Counselling or equivalent experience

Credits

Can be cross-credited towards the Certificate in Counselling Skills and/or Diploma of Professional Counselling as offered through The New Zealand Institute of Professional Counselling.

Duration

Suggested 75 hours (no limit)

Delivery

Distance learning course with email support

Cost

$595.00

“Being heard by another person greatly influences the way all of us think about ourselves and organise our lives”
(Life Skills Helping: A Textbook of Practical Counselling and Helping Skills, 1992)

Overview
This short course is an ideal progression for those who have previously studied the short course in Interpersonal Communication Skills for Counselling, or have an equivalent amount of experience in the same topic. This course of study will greatly improve the quality of support you may be able to provide for others, through the development of confrontation, focusing and influencing interview skills. These interview skills will also prove invaluable to you throughout your day to day life.

Course Content

Course Content

· Confrontation

A skill used to encourage self awareness in the individuals you are supporting. This should only be used once a trusted relationship has been developed.

· Focusing

This skill is useful in guiding the flow of conversation to topics which may be important to explore or clarify, however should be used sparingly as a means of redirecting the topic of conversation.

· Influencing

Explores the skill of being able to assist an individual to change the way they think and/or behave. This is a skill used to explore alternatives, and ways of thinking and behaving within a relationship.

This short course is delivered by Quantum Education Group and endorsed by the New Zealand Institute of Professional Counselling (NZIPC).

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