Level 5 CPCAB Counselling Children & Young People Diploma
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This CPCAB qualifying qualification is designed to give learners the specialist knowledge, skills and competencies to work as counsellors with children and young people aged 11-18.
The course will be structured to meet the below CPCAB learning outcomes:
- Work safely, legally and ethically as a counsellor with young people aged 11 – 18 years old.
- Work therapeutically with young people.
- Work with issues around culture, family and diversity relevant to the development of young people.
- Work with an age-appropriate counselling approach to engage with young people.
- Work with self-awareness as a practitioner with young people
- Use a coherent framework of theory and skills relevant for working with this age group.
- Monitor and maintain professional effectiveness as a counsellor of young people.
Level 4 Therapeutic Counselling CPCAB Diploma (TC-L4) or the Recognised Prior
Learning (RPL) equivalent (minimum 420 Guided Learning Hours) plus required pre TC-L4 training.
Candidates must be able to demonstrate the following:
- Ability to identify reasons for training beyond just personal development
- Provide references
- Academically and emotionally able to cope with this level of training
- Ability to work with difference and diversity
- Possess personal qualities of imagination, intuition, openness and ability to benefit from self-development
- Ability to form a therapeutic relationship with a child or young person
- Have self-awareness, insight, honesty and the ability to make links
- Emotional stability and the absence of personality disturbance
- Ability to challenge and be challenged
- Ability to respond sensitively and empathically to children and young people
- Ability to work professionally as part of a team
Portfolio of coursework - with 3 types of evidence including documentation (learning journals, self review, assignment), tutor observation and testimony.
External case review demonstrating your work with a young person.
Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision or Degree/Higher qualification in Counselling.
This qualification will enable successful candidates to work as counsellors with this age group in a range of job and career opportunities, which include but are not limited to:
- A counsellor employed by a School or College
- A counsellor in an agency or organisation which specialises in counselling children and young people
- A private counsellor working for an external organisation such as a school, youth club, wellness/mental health setting
- An ‘adult’ counsellor in independent practice wishing to extend their work to cover this age range
- A youth worker in the community
- An outreach worker with adolescents/teenagers
To enrol on this course, please email counselling@bcot.ac.uk with the course you are interested in to arrange an interview with the course tutor. Following a successful interview, you will then be provided with an enrolment code in order to complete your enrolment online.
Note loan only covers part of the fees.
Course Details
Course Code:
PEBL011
Study Mode:
Higher Education
Location
Basingstoke
Duration:
20 Weeks
Start Date:
15/09/2025
Day & Time:
Mon 9.30am to 4pm
Tuition Fees:
£1580.00
Registration Fees:
£405.00
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