Higher Diploma in Counselling Practice 2010

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Special Features:

The AQA Higher Diploma in Counselling Practice is a National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 5 qualification, which has been developed specifically to provide an accessible professional level qualification for counselling practitioners. The term counselling practitioner, as it is used here, includes all categories of people engaged in therapeutic counselling with clients, professionally or voluntarily, and also those who are in the process of starting out in such practice.

Therapeutic counselling has become an important social function in recent years, with huge growth in the number and variety of counselling services available throughout the UK. There has been a corresponding growth in the demand for counsellors. This AQA qualification has been developed in response to the demand and it sets out the benchmarks of the core knowledge and skills required in counselling, at an appropriate level for practitioners.

The qualification is intended for use by education and training providers in both the public and private sectors; typically, this includes organisations that provide Higher and Further Education, Adult and Continuing Education and occupational and professional training.

Counselling appeals to students from a wide range of cultural and socialeconomic backgrounds. It has been estimated that around 80% of these are female, and that the vast majority are mature students.

The AQA Higher Diploma in Counselling Practice is intended primarily for part-time study in association with the candidates live counselling practice work with clients. Full-time or block release course arrangements may also be suitable, subject to the condition that the candidates are in practice and are able to comply with AQAs placement conditions, as specified herein, regarding minimum hours of client work, personal supervision and personal therapy.

The AQA Higher Diploma in Counselling Practice is designed to show that successful candidates have achieved generic personal and professional standards in both intellectual and practical skills, which are at least those propounded by the leading professional bodies and standard-setting organisations for therapeutic counselling practitioners. Therefore, in completing this qualification, successful candidates can achieve all of the training elements towards their individual professional accreditation.

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