Maybe you already work with young people and want more behind it. This diploma covers counselling skills, child development and the teenage years, from listening to finding solutions. It runs online, around your week.
How to listen, plus how children grow.
The whole arc, infant through to teenager.
Long enough to study around a job.
Youth services, schools and family teams all lean on this ground. The college suggests further training or a placement to build hands on practice.
Help a family find and use the right services.
Meet a young person weekly and stay in their corner.
Run wellbeing programmes inside a school.
Keep a local service running for young people.
Plan the week and hold a small team together.
Sit between a family and the services around them.
Roles where these skills help, not promised outcomes. Counselling roles in Ireland need approved study and registration.
Three certificates sit inside the diploma, from skills to child and teen growth.
What you get across the three parts.
Counselling skills, child growth and the teen years.
Listening, questioning, reflecting, closing well.
A grounding for support work, not a licence.
Plus a year of association membership
Issued by the college when you finish.
A year with the International Association for Counselling.
Job listings, CV review and interview prep.
A youth group, a school, or your own family.
An advisor is straight about what this does not do.
Upfront, or weekly, fortnightly or monthly.
Enrol and open the first certificate.
Not at all. Plenty of students start from scratch.
Twelve months of access, and around three hundred hours of material.
None, ever. You work through the three parts at your own speed.
Counselling skills, child development and adolescent development.
It carries ICOES, IARC and CPD Standards Office accreditation. It is not a QQI course and not a national award. It is a grounding for support work.
It will not, and the course page is upfront about that. There is no supervised clinical training in it. What you get is the skill base and the development theory behind youth work.
Yes, anywhere in Ireland with a connection.
A course advisor. Tell them your plan and ask if this fits.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy.
The college has more than fifteen years behind it, and says it helps over twenty five thousand students a year find their path.
Picture the kid who keeps showing up because you kept showing up.