PSCN1010-1 – Diploma in Psychology & Counselling

Key Benefits

• Gain an employer recognised qualification and add to your CV
• Increase your job prospects and learn key office Psychology & Counselling Skills
• Extend your understanding of psychology and counselling
• Learn the skills counsellors use to help people resolve their problems and issues
• Developed and delivered by psychology and counselling experts
• Learn online, at your own pace, with tutor support by phone and email
• Flexible online study – work at your own pace in your own time. We can work around you!

Covering Six Comprehensive Modules

Module 1: Introduction to Psychology

• PSCG212 – The Nature and Scope of Psychology
• PSCG213 – The Neurological Basis of Behaviour
• PSCG132 – Environmental Effects on Behaviour
• PSCG113 – Consciousness and Perception
• PSCG174 – Personality
• PSCG185 – Psychological Development
• PSCG172 – Needs, drives and motivation

Module 2: Certificate in Psychology & Counselling

• PSCG205 – Stress
• PSCG101 – Abnormal behaviour
• PSCG144 – Individual behaviour
• PSCG139 – Group behaviour
• PSCG166 – Methods of dealing with abnormalities
• PSCG112 – Conflict resolution
• PSCG149 – Interpersonal communication skills

Module 3: Counselling Skills

• PSCG158 – Learning specific skills
• PSCG161 – Listening & bonding
• PSCG193 – Reflection
• PSCG190 – Questioning
• PSCG150 – Interview Techniques
• PSCG108 – Changing Beliefs and Normalising
• PSCG135 – Finding Solutions
• PSCG131 – Ending the Counselling

Module 4: Advanced Counselling Skills

• PSCG211 – The Counselling Session
• PSCG136 – Focus on the Present
• PSCG210 – Telephone Counselling
• PSCG117 – Dealing with Crisis
• PSCG178 – Problem Solving Techniques I – Aggression
• PSCG179 – Problem Solving Techniques II – Depression
• PSCG180 – Problem Solving Techniques III – Grief and Loss
• PSCG181 – Problem Solving Techniques IV –  Suicide

Module 5. Counselling Techniques

• PSCG182 – Psychoanalytic psychotherapy l – Freud, Erikson, Jung
• PSCG183 – Psychoanalytical psychotherapy ll – Adler
• PSCG142 – Humanistic/Existential approaches I – Gestalt Therapy
• PSCG141 – Humanistic/Existential approaches II – Person-Centred Counselling; Carl Rogers
• PSCG191 – Rational emotive therapy – Albert Ellis
• PSCG105 – Behavioural therapy
• PSCG202 – Solution Focussed Counselling
• PSCG109 – Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Module 6. Professional Practice in Psychology

• PSCG216 – Understanding Counselling
• PSCG133 – Ethics & Confidentiality
• PSCG217 – Understanding the Self
• PSCG175 – Personality
• PSCG128 – Emotions & Behaviour
• PSCG207 – Supervision
• PSCG192 – Referral Practice

See what our students say

★★★★★ “Thank you for the pleasant time during my time in the career academy student I’m so proud to have finished my course in Psychology and mental health and am currently now enrolled as a student in bachelor in Psychology and Youth social work but couldn’t have done it without these course thank you ☺” – Sammy Roberts

★★★★★ “The course is brilliant, it is easy to understand and the detail of knowledge is also easy to absorb. The tutors have been extremely helpful and prompt to reply. I find that I don’t have to use them much at all as the content is self-explanatory.” – Lynaire Hartley

★★★★★ “I wanted to further my skills and knowledge as well as continue to work full-time and studying through the career academy was a great way for me to achieve this” – Zara