Diploma in Counselling

In Diploma in Counselling course you will obtain the essential expertise in counselling and communication to help people in various conditions.

Diploma of Counselling

This counselling diploma will provide the skills to build strong counselling relationships, ask appropriate questions, follow ethical and legal guidelines, and identify and manage emergencies.

Diploma of Counselling

Our Graduate Diploma of Counselling will provide you with essential knowledge and skills in counselling required to support individuals effectively and compassionately with mild or moderate mental health problems and normal developmental issues. You will undertake 100 hours of valuable counselling placement during your course which will equip you with practical counselling experience and enable you to develop relationships that will support your future employability.

Diploma of Counselling Requirements

  • Minimum age 18
  • Provide a valid USI
  • Be eligible to study in Australia with the Australian College of Community Services and Care
  • Hold the required criminal and working with children checks (if applicable)

Diploma in Counselling Fees

A$15000

Diploma of Counselling Duration

52 - 104 Weeks

Diploma in Counselling Intakes

February and July

Diploma of Counselling Career Opportunities

  • Counsellor
  • Case Worker
  • Health and leisure worker
  • Case Manager
  • Support Worker

Counselling Design Pathways and Recognition of Prior Learning

  • Diploma of Youth Work
  • Diploma of Mental Health

Diploma of Counselling Core units

CHCCCS019 Recognise and respond to crisis situations

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to identify situations where people might be in imminent crisis and then to work collaboratively to minimise any safety concerns and make designs to access needed support services.

CHCCSL001 Establish and confirm the counselling relationship

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to use a structured approach to counselling to confirm authorise and determine the nature of the counsellor client relationship according to the agency’s counselling model.

CHCCSL002 Apply specialist interpersonal and counselling interview skills

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to use advanced and specialised communication talents in the client-counsellor relationship.

CHCCSL003 Facilitate the counselling relationship and process

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to support stakeholders to recognise through concerns and to administrate the overall counselling procedure to its conclusion.

CHCCSL004 Research and apply personality and development theories

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to research key concepts and constructs of theories of personality and human advancement and link those to counselling practice.

CHCCSL005 Apply learning theories in counselling

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to add theory underpinning behaviourism and social learning to formulate and monitor a program a behaviour change in a counselling context.

CHCCSL006 Select and use counselling therapies

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to choose and use different counselling therapies to meet stakeholder requirements.

CHCCSL007 Support counselling clients in decision-making processes

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to help stakeholders to clarify their goals, explore options and advance a course of action.

CHCCSM005 Develop, facilitate and review all aspects of case management

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to plan, monitor and review case administration.

CHCDIV001 Collaborate with diverse people

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to collaborate respectfully with people from distinct social and cultural teams and situations, involving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

CHCDIV002 Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural safety problems in the work area, model cultural safety in own work practice, and advance strategies to maximise cultural safety.

CHCLEG001 Work legally and ethically

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise and work within the legal and ethical frameworks that add to an individual job role.

CHCPRP003 Reflect on and improve own professional practice

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to assess and maximise own practice through a procedure of reflection and ongoing professional advancement.

Diploma in Counselling Elective units

CHCADV001 Facilitate the interests and rights of clients

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to help stakeholders to recognise their rights, voice their needs and concerns and realise their interests, rights and needs.

CHCAGE001 Facilitate the empowerment older people

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to facilitate the empowerment of people receiving support, and to deliver rights-based services using a person-centred approach. It should be conducted in conjunction with individualised plans.

CHCCCS003 Increase the safety of individuals at risk of suicide

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to administrate immediate suicide danger and work with the individual to perform safe outcomes. It involves the needs for advancing a clear caution design for addressing any immediate to the person at danger or others, mobilising access to emergency medical assistance when needed and as well as facilitating links with further support.

CHCCCS014 Provide brief interventions

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to evaluate intervention requirements, and then to implement and monitor brief intervention strategies for people at various stages of the change procedure.

CHCCCS015 Provide individualised support

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to organise, provide and monitor personal support services for a person within the limits authorised by an individualised plan. This individualised plan refers to the support or service provision plan advanced for the person accessing the service and might have different names in different organisations.

CHCCCS017 Provide loss and grief support

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to identify and respond to the requirements of people who are experiencing loss, grief and bereavement.

CHCCCS018 Provide suicide bereavement support

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to provide support for individuals who are experiencing bereavement in relation to suicide.

CHCCCS023 Support independence and wellbeing

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to provide individualised services in ways that support independence, and physical and as well as emotional wellbeing.

CHCDFV001 Identify and respond appropriately to domestic and family abuse

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise and respond to the requirements of stakeholders who might be experiencing domestic and family abuse, involving responding to immediate intervention and support requirements.

CHCDIV003 Promote and manage diversity

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to assess and promote distinct in the work area, and to contribute to the planning of distinct policies and processes. This might add to internal work practices or external service delivery.

CHCFAM002 Work with a child-focused approach

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to use, support and assess child-focused approaches in service delivery in the context of family law. A key tenet of the family law system and associated service provision is acting and promoting the best interests of the child.

CHCFAM003 Support people to improve relationships

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to engage with distinct people to confirm relationship problems and support relationship using a strengths-based approach.

CHCGMB001 Evaluate the needs of clients with problem gambling issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to evaluate the requirements of stakeholders affected by problem gambling and advance case plans for the delivery of problem gambling counselling services.

CHCGMB002 Provide counselling for clients with problem gambling issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents to provide and monitor support, counselling and interventions for stakeholders affected by problem gambling. Counsellors provide support and review goals and strategies using a comprehensive approach to authorise and maintain change in the gambling activity, as well as looking at the reasons underlying and contributing to the problem.

CHCGRP002 Plan and conduct group activities

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise, lead and participate in a team using a collaborative, strengths-based approach.

CHCGRP003 Plan, facilitate and review psycho-educational groups

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to plan, facilitate and review psycho-educational groups using the theories and models of group work and strengths-based approaches.

CHCGRP004 Deliver structured programs

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to prepare for and deliver already authorised short, one-off, structured programs according to format and timing needs. Programs will have a focus on assisting participants to find solutions to specific challenged through access to information and education relevant to these challenges.

CHCMHS001 Collaborate with people with mental health issues

The unit explains the abilities as well as the talents needed to authorise relationships, clarify requirements, and then collaborate with people who are living with mental health problems.

CHCPRT001 Recognise and respond to children and young people at risk

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to recognise children and young people who are at risk and report in line with congressional needs. This work occurs within congressional and policy frameworks and conducts a duty of care responsibility.

CHCPRT004 Work efficiently in child protection to support children, young people and families

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed by child protection workers to support children and young people, and to help families to make sure that children and young people are safe and appropriately cared for. It also covers the ethical, duty of care and as well as legal needs for this work.

CHCSET001 Collaborate with forced migrants

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to work with, and for, refugees within an ethical, social, political and monetary context.

CHCSET002 Undertake bicultural work with forced migrants in Australia

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed of settlement workers from distinct cultural backgrounds to collaborate with forced migrants within an Australian context.

CHCYTH001 Engage respectfully with young people

The unit explains the achievement outcomes, abilities as well as the talents needed to communicate efficiently with children and young people in work roles with a specific focus on young people.

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