This programme is designed for students who wish to specialise in psycho-social issues and counselling special populations in institutions, health centres and well as offering pastoral health care to the sick.
The course principles of guidance and counseling is a basic course in education and to teachers. It is intended to help teachers, parents, psychologists, principals in schools and other educational stakeholders with knowledge and skills to mitigate day-to- day problems they encounter among learners in schools.
COURSE MODULES
Counselling is a process of talking about and working through your personal problems with a counsellor. The counsellor helps you to address your problems in a positive way by helping you to clarify the issues, explore options, develop strategies and increase self-awareness
Objectives
By the end of the course unit the learner should be able to:
Define the key terms of counselling practice
Differentiate between guidance and counselling
Describe the counselling process
Explain the counselling relationship
Explain and use the counselling skills in practice
Identify qualities of an effective counselor
Facilitate a client persona issue and growth
Conflict can be defined as a mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, and external or internal demands. Where there are people, there is conflict.
They are usually taken in a negative association. However, this is inaccurate as conflicts are necessary for healthy relationships. It all depends on the approach we use to resolve the conflict.
The school counsellor is the nerve Centre of the Guidance program in a higher learning institution. He/she should be a qualified Guidance leader in a position to initiate, stimulate
and organize the guidance program in the learning institution. As an Administrator, he applies his superior knowledge and skills in order for guidance to become an integral part of