Counselling - CPCAB Level 2 Certificate

What the course is about

The Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Skills forms the foundation of professional counselling practice, as well as providing the essential listening and communication skills used by helping professionals in a variety of roles within health and social care. It is the first compulsory qualification on your progression route to becoming a counsellor. Further qualifications at level 3, 4 and 5 are required in order to become qualified and be able to practise as a counsellor.

With the other learners in your class, you will cover the following learning outcomes:

• Use counselling skills ethically and safely
• Establish and sustain the boundaries of the helping role
• Work empathetically as a helper
• Focus on the needs and concerns of the client
• Use self-awareness in helping work
• Use feedback and reflection to enhance counselling skills

A variety of learning activities will be used on this course, including tutor presentation and demonstration, practical application of skills, individual and group work, discussions, Q&A, internet research, individual research and project work. Where relevant, your learning will enable you to develop skills and knowledge required for work.

Regular home study will be necessary to successfully complete this course. You will be supported to develop good study skills.

Your tutor will also support you to improve your English and maths skills alongside your learning of your vocational subject. This will include assessing your current skills and planning learning activities related to your subject that are designed to develop your skills in these areas. To support this, you will undertake some e-learning modules, where appropriate, as homework.

If you have declared at enrolment that you are unemployed, you may be invited to meet with an Information, Advice and Guidance Officer or employability member of staff, to identify other learning opportunities that will support you to secure employment or improve your employment prospects. We highly recommend that you engage fully in any other learning opportunities that we help you identify.

This is a vocational course leading to a qualification, and the cost of it is subsidised by public funding. You will be required to complete all of the necessary coursework/assignments or exams by the given deadlines.

Please note: if you do not successfully complete the course within this academic year, you will not be able to repeat it at the subsidised fee. For further information on the syllabus for this course please go to https://www.cpcab.co.uk