Summary:

AT LAST, AN EFFECTIVE, FUN AND GREAT VALUE ALTERNATIVE TO PART-TIME COURSES

Want to do an evening class but can't find the time?
Put off by the cost of part-time courses?
Looking for a course that takes you deep into the subject you love?

Your Evening Class is a brand new, in-depth course package, designed to suit your lifestyle without emptying your wallet. Its unique teaching method will give you an in-depth understanding of the essential counselling skills you need, at a time and pace that suit you.

Flexible
30 structured lessons in ten workbooks for you to follow at your own pace.

Personal
Our unique audioteach method features the voices of real tutors, Christine Wilding and Pauline O'Driscoll. They will guide you through your course over 10 hours of audio material, giving you tips and advice based on their many years of teaching experience and helping you to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls.

Content-rich
Your Counselling course also contains real-time recordings of role-played counselling sessions, to help you to grasp key techniques.

Sociable
Exclusive access to a dynamic online community of fellow learners, with additional exercises and answers to common questions.

Great value
A year's worth of learning for less than the price of a term at a college.

Be inspired and make the most of your free time.

This pack contains:
- 10 workbooks of three lessons each
- 10 audio CDs
- A 144-page paperback theory guide.

- Your password for exclusive access to a bespoke online community.

• Convenient   You're way too busy to be tied down once a week, on a prescribed day, at a prescribed time.

• Time-saving   The course will also take you far less time than a formal course, as you don't have to travel and you can learn in smaller chunks to suit your lifestyle.

• High success rate You can go down the pub, look after the kids at short notice and still do your course when its more convenient. Your personal tutor will motivate you throughout the course.

• Economical A year's worth of classes for less than the price of one term, and you're more likely to get your money's worth as you're doing it when it's convenient for you.

• Community  Extend your knowledge and meet other learners online.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Defining counselling
Necessary counsellor qualities
Empathy and a non-judgemental environment
Helping the client feel safe
Developing the therapist/client relationship
Hearing more than the words
Common problems
Developing emotions
What if your client won’t stop talking?
When an issue is beyond your present skills
Challenging and confronting
Helping your client identify and clarify problems
Problem-solving
Helping the client to set and achieve goals
Would you recognise depression in a client?
How could you help a client with their anger?
Recognising and dealing with bullying
How would you help a client who is grieving?
Life changes – what are they?
Lack of confidence and self esteem
How do you deal with endings?
Counselling with groups
Couples counselling
Getting support – your own supervision
Using counselling in other professions
The major counselling models

About the Author(s):
Christine Wilding is a Chartered MCIPD human resource practitioner and a BACP accredited and UKRC registered psychotherapist. She is a member of the BABCP, with post-graduate training in cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). She is a practising CBT therapist at the Cygnet Hospital, Sevenoaks, and is a psychotherapist and life coach in private practice. Pauline O'Driscoll is a counsellor, pyschotherapist and tutor. She is BACP accreditated, with post graduate training in Clinical Hypnosis, and is a member of the British Society of Clinical Hypnosis (BSCH). She specialises in bereavement, anxiety, stress management and work place issues and currently runs her own private practice.

Readership:
Adult learner