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Counselling Courses - Certificate in Supervision of Counselling and in the Helping Professions

Core tutors: Bob Colderley, Celia Hindmarch.

This course is unique in several respects:

• It includes a six-month extension to the core programme for participants to consolidate learning and to develop a practice portfolio.
• This portfolio prepares for the BACP accreditation process.
• It applies a developmental model to those supervising practitioners using counselling skills as well as counsellors

Thus, in recent years course members have included priests, youth workers, specialist nurses, as well as therapists from a variety of settings. The core programme consists of 30 weekly afternoons (Monday, 12.30pm - 4.00pm) from October to June, plus 3 study days devoted to special subjects. Following the integrative tradition of this University's counselling department, the developmental model of Hawkins & Shohet is used as the principal frame of reference, though other models are acknowledged. Course content consists of a mix of theoretical input, skills and application to practice. Small groups facilitated by a core tutor provide the security for developing supervisory skills and reflective practice. The ethos of this course subscribes to Casement's belief that 'supervision should be more like a sandpit in which to play, rather than a courtroom in
which to judge'.

Next intake: September 2004.

Minimum requirements: include a counselling qualification and post-qualifying experience of supervised practice, a degree or equivalent professional status, and at least one supervisee.