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Programme in Advanced Counselling

Qualification code: 70254
Duration: Two year(s)
Language medium: English

Target group:

Lay counsellors who have completed a basic counselling course, such as the Course in Basic Counselling/the Course in Christian Counselling/the Course in Dealing with Traumatised Children/the Programme in Counselling Children & Adolescents or the Course in Crisis Debriefing and Basic Trauma Counselling.

Admission requirements:

Senior Certificate or an equivalent NQF level 4 qualification with additional counseling expertise and/or experience.

Course leader details:

Dr. D Kumalo
Department of Psychology of Education
Office: Nkoana Simon Radipere Building, 06-041, UNISA
Tel: 012 492 8092
Email: Kumaldm@unisa.ac.za

Programme administrator:

Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp

Purpose statement:

The aim of the programme is the training of lay counsellors in generic life skills, approaches to adjustment and deviance, as well as in specialised topics such as personality theories / or traumatology and advanced counselling techniques and models.

Modules:

ACNS01P - Generic Life Skills

ACNS02Q - Approaches to Adjustment and Deviance

ACNS03R - Personology

ACNS05T - Counselling Interventions and Models

ACNS07V - Practical Module: Attendance of Compulsory Workshop I

ACNS08W - Practical Module: Attendance of Compulsory Workshop II

ACNS09X - Practical Module: Internship