FdSc Counselling Theory Foundation degree at Coleg Llandrillo

This module will enable you to extend your knowledge and skills relating to practice, developing reflexivity, enhanced confidence and decision-making skills. You will be encouraged to develop autonomy and personal responsibility within your professional role and for your personal development to enable you to make a positive contribution to the lives of individuals, their learning, development and wellbeing.

This module aims to develop your communication and interpersonal skills. You will be given opportunities to develop a range of counselling skills as well as skills in self-awareness and self-assessment. You will be introduced to a structured approach to learning, to develop helping skills.

This module will enable you to understand the key aspects of Humanistic theory and its approach to counselling. The module will provide a sound theoretical understanding of the person-centred approach in terms of developmental theory and therapeutic process and skills. In addition, there will be guided discussions that seek to explore the theories' main assumptions. It will form the basis of exploration of clients' and own experiences.

The aim of this module is to increase your understanding of inclusion within the Counselling profession. This module aims to create a learning environment that embraces inclusivity and promotes equal access to support individuals from various backgrounds. The purpose of the module is to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to effectively engage with clients from diverse populations through understanding legislations and policies, and applying these to practise.

This module will enable you to understand what counselling is and what the role of the therapist is whilst exploring the experience of the client. You will gain an understanding of what the therapeutic process looks like from both the perspective of a client and a counsellor. Essential psychological principles that underpin key counselling theories will be explored.

This module aims to develop your study skills, enabling the production of sound academic writing, the introduction of critical thought and basic research skills. The module enables you to develop skills in academic writing, using academic conventions, information research, reflection and the management and organisation of academic work.

This module will allow you to work through the BACP Ethical Framework to gain the knowledge and understanding of the main principles within the counselling profession. As well as conceptually understanding the ethical framework, you will also use this knowledge as part of your practical-based module when practising counselling skills with other students prior to seeing clients.

The module is designed to provide you with advanced counselling skills and to elevate your practice to a level of enhanced therapeutic proficiency. Through advanced training, you will develop a deeper understanding of diverse therapeutic modalities, allowing you to tailor interventions to the unique needs of each client.

The module will enable you to apply a range of research skills appropriate to the appropriate subject discipline of study. It will require you to demonstrate enhanced skills in academic writing and information research and to apply a range of valid research methodologies and instruments. You will also develop an understanding of ethics and learn how to give consideration to the importance of ethics in research. In addition, the module will focus on the construction of convincing arguments throug

The aim of the module is to provide an awareness of attachment and adversity which are significant concepts in the field of counselling, particularly in the context of understanding an individual's emotional and psychological well-being. You will address adversity which involves helping clients explore the impact of past or current challenges on their well-being, identifying coping strategies, and fostering resilience.

This module will raise your awareness of common life events and obstacles to well-being and enhance your knowledge of some of the most common mental health disorders. You will be able to recognise important characteristics of mental health concerns as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder, Fifth Edition (DSM-5; 2013) (reference will also be made to ICD-10) and respond appropriately, safely and ethically.