Home Study
Counselling, Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis
This 6-month Home Study course is designed to introduce participants to the areas of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. The course is open to anybody who will find it of interest or value. It is intended to provide a resource of information and ideas for understanding counselling and therapy. It will be relevant for personal development; to complement and supplement many existing professions, such as teaching, human resource management, nursing; or as a foundation to further study.
The course will be presented in jargon-free form, including many practical case studies, making it easily accessible to all people, irrespective of previous educational qualifications or professional experience.
The cost of the course is €495 payable at course commencement. This cost covers administration, all reading/study material (there will be no need to buy any additional books) and a Certificate in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis on successful completion of the course.
Whilst the Home Study courses are not professional qualifications, past-participants have utilised these courses as a stepping-stone for further study and/or career advancement.
Course Outline
Counselling
- Definitions of counselling
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The talking treatments - differences between counselling, psychotherapy & psychoanalysis
- Counselling in society
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Skills of counselling - confidentiality, exploration, listening, reflective skills, probing skills, challenging skills, self-disclosure, immediacy, goal-setting, evaluating
- Counsellor qualities and attitudes – tolerance, discretion, sensitivity, judgement/non-judgmental
- Self-knowledge including self-development, training, supervision and referral
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Approaches in counselling – humanistic approach, psychodynamic approach, behavioural approach, eclectic approach
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Counselling specific problems – alcohol abuse, anxiety, panic & phobia, bereavement, trauma & loss, depression, eating disorders, stress, victim support, family counselling
- Counselling by telephone
- Co-counselling
Psychotherapy
- Defining psychotherapy
- Three approaches of psychotherapy
- The therapeutic relationship
- Common concerns – Does it work? Can therapy be harmful? What rights does a client have/not have?
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Various approaches of psychotherapy will be presented. For each approach the concepts, techniques and practice will be outlined together with a case study to illustrate the approach
- Transactional analysis
- Existential Psychotherapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Bio-energetic Psychotherapy
- Rational Emotive Therapy
- Primal Therapy
- Person-centred therapy
- Personal Construct Therapy
- Psychosynthesis
- Systems Therapy
Psychoanalysis
- Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis
- The role of the unconscious
- The interpretation of dreams
- Sexuality and psychosexual development
- Id, ego and superego states
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Defence mechanisms including: repression, suppression, denial, sublimation, projection, reaction-formation, displacement, identification, compensation
- The therapeutic relationship – transference and counter-transference
- Developments since Freud. An Introduction to the major Post-Freudian schools
- Carl Jung
- Erik Erikson
- Heinz Kohut
- Alfred Adler
- Otto Rank
- Erich Fromm
- Anna Freud
- Harry Stack Sullivan
- Karen Horney
- Melanie Klein
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The course is divided into 6 units – each unit comprising reading material, followed up by two written assignments to be completed and returned to your tutor.
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The assignments are straight-forward and relate directly to the reading material. They will include short factual answers, personal responses/reactions to the reading material, self-development exercises, etc.
- On average the course will require 3-4 hours reading/study per week.
- The assignments will be graded by your tutor and returned to you.
- Assignment work may be returned to your tutor:
• Monthly
• The first three assignment units halfway through the course, (i.e after month 3) or
• All assignment work together at the end of the course - Specific dates will be supplied as you progress through the course.
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This allows for great flexibility on your part and lets you decide the method that best suits you and your way of study. Whichever way you choose to return the assignments, they will be graded by your tutor and returned to you at our earliest possible convenience.
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There is also room for flexibility of your progression through the course. If you feel you have not enough time at a particular point – for example you are going away, your workload is overwhelming, then you can just let us know and we can delay sending out the next unit until you are in a position to continue.
On successful completion of all 6 units the Certificate in Counselling, Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis will be awarded.
Contact
If you require further information
Niamh at
ATI 38 Lower
Leeson Street, Dublin 2
Tel 01 6629737
Fax: 01 6425599
Email: admin@addiction.ie
