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Counselling Seminary

Counseling will tell you what it is!

Counseling Course in cognitive model drawn on psychoanalytic with other models explained.

The course provides techniques to help students gaining understanding of how Christians / Biblical Counseling can improve capacity to help people’s emotional needs, to establish a genuine sense of competence, to improve relationship, heal past hurts and create positive and realistic attitudes about biblical changes.

Counseling gives directions

The course is built on the basis of recognizing the principles of Ethics and Practice of the British Association of Counseling and Psychotherapy (BACP) as the organization seeks to affirm practitioner’s credibility to good Practice.

Seemingly, the society does not take responsibility for directing any uniformity of practice and theory, but emphasizes ethics and values on the basis of aim, method and assumptions.

The course upholds the assumption as is assumed by all counseling models, of, Code of Ethics, Issue of Competence, Code of Practice and Confidentiality.

This course is suitable for

All those who work with people in various social enviroments, including;

Pastors

Nurses

Teachers

Doctors

The Course looks at a wide range of objectives available in terms of theoretical principles and practice and how these can be applied to the various capacities in counseling. Areas of interest throughout the course are those addressing;

It is designed based on the need and itnerest among community groups, (whether Christian or Secular) to develop a counselor’s insight into the association of personality, pathologies & human relations: and to acquire specific knowledge of Counseling Skills and Practice relevant for those conditions.

Aims and Objectives of the Course

Aims

The course was designed with an aim to define how people learn and facilitate by sharing in large and small triad groups in a counseling session. To prepare students to user-centered skills in Counseling.
It aims to give training and group experience to aid in understanding:

• Personal Development
• Working alliance with group
• Ability to share information
• Skills Practice
• Working with diversity

Objectives

The course aims to enable you at the end to formulate your own model of Counseling from the different theories and approaches to be observed, as currently exist in Christian Counseling. It is to acquire knowledge of skills and understanding of theory and models to enable using approaches to practice in diversity.

At this point you may reflect on how you may become a member of the BACP (British Association of Counselors and Psychotherapy).

Course Program

Unit One

About Counseling Ethical Issues

  • Defining Counseling
  • Observing ethics and practice (BACP code)
  • Contractual Guidelines
  • Discussion and Writing Diaries
  • Unit Two

    Skills Development and Practice

  • Varied exercises in counseling skills
  • Triad practices and facilitation
  • Monitoring and facilitating active listening and effective feedback
  • • User-centered model
  • • Core model of course
  • Unit Three

    Personal Development

  • Reflecting Self
  • Evaluation and Feedback
  • Therapeutic games
  • Triad practices, observation and feedback
  • Observing your own model
  • Group excersise and discussion
  • Unit Four

    Christianity and Counseling

  • Biblical models and approaches
  • Biblical examples and counseling
  • Forgiving and being forgiven
  • Pastoral issues
  • Unit Five

    Psychology and Counseling

  • Child rearing and development
  • Bereavement
  • Depression and age
  • Triad practice
  • Self and peer assessment
  • Personality traits and counseling
  • Unit Six

    Counseling Diversity

  • Social, physical and psychological problems for the pastor
  • Transcultural differences
  • The Counselor and attitude triad practice and feedback course evaluation
  • Level I:
    120 hours in 6 months including one residential weekend away.

    Fee: £350
    Includes all sessions, residential weekend away, course workbook.

    CENTRES OF LEARNING

    Church of God of Prophecy Church House Elmers Road Woodside London SE25 5DS

    House of Bread (COGOP) Kitto Road New Cross London SE14 5TW

    020 8655 0071

    020 7732 4970

    Courses Commence in September

    FCCB also offers One Day Workshops by arrangement. Please call on 020 8464 3573 for more information.

    REV. Dr. FREDA THEOLOGICAL SURGERY

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