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ABC Certificate in Counselling Concepts

Welcome to the course! This website is a place to pick up ideas, handouts and articles relevant to the course, a chance to connect with the group of students who have studied the concepts course and the group who intend to go onto the Skills course.

All the documents below are in Acrobat files (pdf) and if you don’t have Adobe Acrobat you can download it free.
Download Acrobat. I also put my weekly reflections on teaching both courses up on the website in the form of a journal - an exercise you are required to do at home for yourself as part of the course.

Overview of person centred theory
Learning to Counsel (Book)
Counselling chapter 1

Handouts

Other interesting articles

Introduction to course
Keeping a learning journal
What counselling is and is not
Johari’s window
Maslow’s diagram
Giving feedback
Introduction to person centred counselling





Skills course as normal on 18th May when we will sort out how to finish the course.