This Warnborough online course will help increase and improve your knowledge and understanding how family counselling works – and how to do it effectively. You will:
- Analyse and facilitate solutions to problems that occur within families
- Learn the theories and principles of family counselling
- Study Family Counselling as an introduction to a new career path
- Gain a better understanding of issues in order to help others
- Suitable for anyone working with, or wanting to work to help families, such as support workers, social workers, parents, foster carers, youth workers, counsellors, teachers and others
Course Structure
The duration of this online course is 100 hours. This consists of 10 in-depth lessons:
Lesson 1. Nature And Scope of Families
- Different Types of Families
- Traditional Family Structures
- Family Systems
- Cultural Variations
- Family Lifecycles
Lesson 2. Family Dynamics
- Crises
- Changing Cultures (immigrant families)
- Evolving Structures (Religion, new siblings, departing siblings, changing parents, incoming grandparents)
- Breakdowns
- Merging Two Families
- Abuse
- Violence
- Death
- Illness
- Changing Income
- Disintegration and Reintegration
Lesson 3. History
- How are dynamics different and similar today to in the past?
- How did we cope with family problems in the past in different places, cultures
- What can we learn from this?
- How can we draw strength from knowing all this is not new?
Lesson 4. Identifying Problems
- Patterns
- Critical Incidents
- Long-Standing Incidents
- Common Problems for Families
- Common Problems for Couples
Lesson 5. Support Structures
- What Support Services Might Be Accessed
- Extended Family
- Community Services
- Social Networks
- Religion
- Types Of Counselling
Lesson 6. Approaches to Family Therapy I
- Goals Of Family Counselling
- Adlerian Family Therapy
- Transgenerational Family Therapy
- Human Validation Process Model
- Experiential Family Therapy
Lesson 7. Approaches to Family Therapy II
- Structural Family Therapy
- Strategic Family Therapy
- Social Constructionist Family Therapy
- An Integrated Approach
- Synopsis of Approaches To Family Therapy
Lesson 8. Conducting Initial Interviews/Sessions
- Carrying Out An Assessment
Lesson 9. Considering Solutions
- Multicultural Family Therapy
- Sexual Abuse
Lesson 10. Problem Based Learning Project
- Consider a situation to establish and consider alternative strategies. Select a strategy.
HOW DOES A WARNBOROUGH ONLINE COURSE WORK?
You can start the course whenever is convenient for you. You will be studying from home and have access to support from our qualified tutors. Practical exercises and research tasks will be set at the end of each lesson – including an assignment. You will submit this assignment to your course tutor, who will mark your work and give you constructive feedback and suggestions.
If you have any questions please contact us.
