Certificate in Pastoral Counselling Skills

This Bristol-based course is suitable not only for students wishing to train as counsellors, but also for those wishing to develop their listening and counselling skills for use in other roles and settings such as pastoral care, nursing or teaching.

 

Key facts

 

Award	Certificate in Pastoral Counselling Skills 60 credits at Level 1 Validating body: University of Gloucestershire
Duration	One year part time – one day per week
Class-contact hours	150
Core theoretical model/ethos	Christian person-centred
Counselling skills practice	20 hours
Course fees	£1400 (payable in monthly instalments)

 

N.B. The course contact hours may, at BACP's discretion, be counted towards meeting part of Criterion 4 of the BACP Counsellor/Psychotherapist Accreditation scheme and may also be counted towards meeting the training requirements for ACC accreditation. 

Find out more about the Christian person-centred approach.

 

Entrance requirements

Applicants will be expected to provide evidence of: 

• a minimum of 50 hours of prior training in basic listening/counselling skills at introductory level.
  N.B. under some circumstances, this requirement may be waived. 
• the ability to meet the academic demands of the course
• previous or current experience of being in counselling and/or the willingness to undertake counselling for themselves during the course 

N.B. Network Training offers a 12 week part time introductory course, Being There, which provides 70 hours of training in basic listening and counselling skills.

 

Applying to the course

The next intake for this course will be September 2008.

 

Please contact us to request a prospectus and application form. Alternatively, you can download them in pdf format below. To save a file, right-click on the link and select 'Save Target As'.

 

Certificate Prospectus

Certificate Application Form

 

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