Mental Health Counselling Training

The online Mental Health Counselling Training from Oplex Careers aims to provide a strong insight into learning key skills related to counselling specifically aimed at the mental health sector, discussing history, furture developments and more.

The online Mental Health Counselling Training will introduce you to learning key communication skills aimed at counselling for mental health, as well as key principles to learn in a counselling session, developing and building on these skills and more. Whether you are familiar with key principles already, you want to get started learning counselling for mental health training, looking for more training, or just interested in this field of study, this course will cover a range of modules and provide multiple examples for assessment.

Course Syllabus

The Mental Health Counselling Training is split into the following modules:

• Introduction to Mental Health Counselling

• Identify what talking therapy is
• Other counselling methods available
• Choosing the methodology best suited to the individual patient

• Mental Health Counselling

• Who benefits from mental health counselling
• Benefits of mental health counselling
• To understand the benefits of mental health counselling over other methods

• Different Types of Counselling

• Identify the different types of talking therapies
• Other types of therapy available
• To understand who each type of counselling is most appropriate for

• Client rights and responsibilities

• Understand the client’s rights
• Responsibilities of a therapist
• Responsibilities of the client

• Therapist Training

• The difference between a counsellor, a psychotherapist and a psychologist
• Qualifications / training required for a counsellor, psychotherapist and psychologist,
• The pros and cons of becoming part of the mental health services industry

• A typical session

• To understand the what counselling might make a client feel
• What clients should expect from a typical counselling session
• Other people’s experience of counselling has been like

• Available counselling services

• Services are available on the NHS
• Which services are available privately
• Services available through charities and volunteer organisations

• History and future developments

• The history of the NHS and mental healthcare services in the UK
• Future developments for mental healthcare in the UK
• To understand how the history of mental healthcare should impact our approach to the future

• Final Assessment

Assessment

To assess the learners ability and knowledge to effectively understand the topics contained within the Mental Health Counselling Training, the course features a number of end of module interactive quiz questions.

Additionally, at the end of the course learners will also take an online multiple choice assessment test. This online multiple choice test is marked automatically so you will receive an instant grade and know whether you have passed the course.

Certificate

On successful completion of this Mental Health Counselling Training . This certificate will be produced in PDF format, hard copies of the certificate will be available at an additional fee of £9.99.

Course Format

This course is delivered online through eLearning. Learners of the course will receive instant access to our interactive student learning portal, which offers 24/7 access to the Mental Health Counselling Training.

Course Duration

The online Mental Health Counselling Training requires 16 hours to complete the course in full. This is only a guide to the learning hours required and it depends on how quickly an individual can absorb the information. The learning is online so it can be spread out over multiple sessions or done in one session.

Learners will have access to this course for up to 12 months from the date of joining. There is no time limit to complete the course during this period.

Tutor Support

When you are studying a course it is always useful to know that you have the help and support of tutors that want you to succeed in your studies.

As part of the Mental Health Counselling Training you will receive access to our dedicated tutor support service. The academic tutors will be able to provide you with unlimited online email support to help answer any questions that you may have whilst you are studying the course.

Course Compatibility

Our Mental Health Counselling Training is fully compatible with PC’s, Mac’s, Laptop, Tablet and Smartphone devices.

We know that more and more people are using the web whilst they are on the move, so we have designed this Mental Health Counselling Training to be fully compatible across tablet and smartphone devices. You will be able to access the same content from the course, just over a 3G or 4G network whilst on the move.