Thinking about a move into support work? This course opens up stress, behaviour, group dynamics, conflict work and how people are helped through problems. It is short, online, and made for beginners.
A short course before a long commitment.
Why groups and individuals behave as they do.
How problems get worked on, step by step.
Support teams, helplines and outreach services use this thinking daily. Days look like listening, writing notes and pointing people to help.
Keep a support service running day to day.
Take services out to people who need them.
Work with people on goals, not treatment.
Use your own road to help someone else.
Take calls and steady the person on the line.
Roles where these skills help, not promised outcomes. Counselling roles in Ireland need approved study and registration.
You start with how people behave and end with the skills to help.
Three things this gives you.
Psychology theory next to counselling practice.
Skills that carry into any workplace.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Plus a year of association membership
Issued by the college when you finish.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Credits toward your professional growth.
Support work, further study, or interest.
An advisor will tell you the limits.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first topics.
Not at all. The course starts from the beginning.
Six months of access, and around eighty hours of material.
None, ever. You move through the topics at your own speed.
Stress, behaviour, group dynamics, conflict work and communication skills.
It carries ICOES and CPD Standards Office accreditation. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. It is a short introduction to the field.
It is a low cost way to test the interest first. It is not a registration award, so check what your chosen professional body asks for. Support roles are the usual next step.
A Certificate of Achievement, plus a year of association membership.
A course advisor. Tell them your plan and ask if this fits.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
Its courses carry ICOES and CPD Standards Office accreditation. They are not QQI awards.
Picture the shift where someone leaves lighter than they arrived.