Course for international guest/part time students

Faculty

Faculty of Education and Psychology

Organization

PPK Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management

Code

HRCM21-130

Title

Methods and Techniques of Counselling

Usual semester

Spring

Published semester

2025/26/2

ECTS

2

Language

en

Learning outcomes

Psychological counselling is designed to help reveal those circumstances that arise from the personality, lifestyle and personality disorder and could hinder the work of the client. Another aim of the counsellor is to support the client in the treatment of emotional difficulties, to prevent, manage and resolve those personal problems that hinder access to employment, to facilitate the creating of realistic self-evaluation and also the focusing on personal resources to find a better employment. Professional and focused conversation is the main instrument of the counsellor including other pscyhological tools with diagnostic purpose. The conversation’s design, direction and steps are defined by the counsellor, based on the results of the diagnostic assessment and based on what the client undertakes in the contract. Than the consultant selects the method of intervention, the direction of change which will be hold through the process.  The consultant decides not only which way to move, but also when, how and in what order. The consultation builds on open communication. The open communication helps to ensure that the client takes equal part in the implementation of change. The student at the end of the course will be able to use different assessment strategies in appraising client concerns, to formulate points for interventions and to manage the consultation process.

Course content

The training involves varied activities in which students will take part in small group skills practice where they can take their turns in ‘client’, ‘counsellor’ or ‘observer’ situations. Students will be required to read widely, to do guided literature research from the recommended reading list, and give informal reviews to the lecturer and their peers.

Assessment method

Type of the evaluation: practice mark

Bibliography

• Seligman, Linda (2004): Diagnosis and treatment planning in counselling. Springer, 978-0306484728 • Egan, G. (2014): The skilled helper: a problem-management and opportunity-development approach to helping. Brooks/Cole, Cangage Learning, ISBN: 978-1-285-06571-7

Programmes of the course