Overview
Qualification Grading Type
Graded
Grade Descriptors
- GD3-Application of skills
- GD5-Communication and presentation
- GD7-Quality
This unit is expiring
The expiry date of this unit is 31/07/2024.
Graded
Be able to practise counselling skills ethically and safely.
Facilitate an appropriate physical and psychological environment in which to practise counselling skills.
Use counselling skills within an ethical framework.
Work within limits of own ability.
Suggest relevant sources of support when own limits are exceeded.
Be able to maintain appropriate boundaries when using counselling skills.
Establish appropriate personal and time boundaries.
Establish the nature and limits of confidentiality.
Know how to communication skills when helping others.
Use a wide range of active listening skills in a counselling situation.
Identify a range of question styles to encourage the person being helped to explore key issues.
Be able to demonstrate core qualities required in counselling.
Demonstrate the core qualities of empathy, acceptance and congruence within a counselling situation.
Enable the person being helped to focus on their own needs and concerns, without leading them.
Be able to manage own feelings.
Manage own feelings in order to ensure they do not have a negative impact on the person being helped.