New Professional Counselor Training Course Online

April 27, 2010 - PRLog -- Now members of the general public can enroll in an online course to gain skills in professional counseling.

Prerequisites: Mature age (18 or over), sincere desire to understand and help yourself and others, reading comprehension and writing composition skills. The course is designed for individuals who may have been away from the traditional classroom for several years.

Objectives:
1. To acquire knowledge and skills in the process of counseling individuals and couples.
2. To increase the student’s self-awareness of issues and factors contributing to his or her current life and functioning.

Topics:
1. Completing and understanding the Clinical Assessment; steps for suicide prevention.
2. Skills to begin, deepen, and close the counseling session and the over-all counseling process.
3. Skills to heal grief resulting from different types of loss: death of a loved one, breakup of a relationship, divorce, loss of health, bankruptcy, and others.
4. Skills to help others adopt healthy communication, reduce hostility, solve problems, resolve conflicts, listen with empathy, and speak assertively.
5. Approaches to help couples resolve specific issues: infidelity, household duties, addiction, and others.

Text and Materials:
Effective Counseling Skills: the practical wording of therapeutic statements and processes by Daniel Keeran, MSW (on Amazon.com included in tuition)
Qualifying Examination for Professional Counseling Practice (sent as a Word .doc file, $500 value included in tuition) from the College of Mental Health Counseling
Clinical Assessment Form (sent as a Word .doc file, included in tuition) from the College of Mental Health Counseling

Assignments:
1. Design and create a minimum of 100-120 short and long-answer review questions covering the scope and depth of the text and provide responses with page numbers from the text where the answers are found.
2. Complete the Clinical Assessment Questionnaire with yourself as the client.
3. Complete the Clinical Assessment Questionnaire with a volunteer client.
4. Qualfying Examination - Open-book with text, all materials, and full instructor support available, the exam is designed to be a comprehensive learning experience.

Time for completion: Estimating 2 hours per week day, allow approximately 4 to 6 weeks with time extension granted on request.

The Certificate of Professional Counseling is awarded upon completion of the above requirements.

To register, please complete and send the Registration Form at http://www.collegemhc.com

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We provide online professional counselor training and on-going online supervision and support for non-profit organizations and for-profit counseling services. Members receive training and support to establish a counseling service in their community.