Psychological Counselling Skills

Pre-requisites: Passing exams in General and Special Psychopathology, Fundamentals of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Course objectives: Acquiring essential knowledge and understanding basic concepts of REBT and The lifeskills counselling model, mastering skills needed to develop optimal counselling relationship, assess the clients and their problems and modify dysfunctional feelings and behaviour.

Course description: Contents cover learning about and mastering the concepts, methods and skills of counselling from the perspective of Rational-emotional-behaviour therapy (Ellis) and The lifeskills counselling model (Nelson-Jones). We will consider skills needed to: a. develop optimal counselling relationship and working alliance; b. assess the client’s dysfunctional patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour; c. determine counselling goals; d.formulate working hypothesis and counselling plan; e. use different interventions (cognitive, emotional and behavioural); f. evaluate the course of counselling; g. understand ethical and professional issues in counselling.

Learning Outcomes: Acquiring knowledge and basic practical skills that enable students to assess the client’s problem (which is outside the range of psychological disorder), using a cognitive model of emotional disorders and to make the first steps towards resolving it.

Psychological Counselling Skills

Pre-requisites: Passing exams in General and Special Psychopathology, Fundamentals of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Course objectives: Acquiring essential knowledge and understanding basic concepts of REBT and The lifeskills counselling model, mastering skills needed to develop optimal counselling relationship, assess the clients and their problems and modify dysfunctional feelings and behaviour.

Course description: Contents cover learning about and mastering the concepts, methods and skills of counselling from the perspective of Rational-emotional-behaviour therapy (Ellis) and The lifeskills counselling model (Nelson-Jones). We will consider skills needed to: a. develop optimal counselling relationship and working alliance; b. assess the client’s dysfunctional patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour; c. determine counselling goals; d.formulate working hypothesis and counselling plan; e. use different interventions (cognitive, emotional and behavioural); f. evaluate the course of counselling; g. understand ethical and professional issues in counselling.

Learning Outcomes: Acquiring knowledge and basic practical skills that enable students to assess the client’s problem (which is outside the range of psychological disorder), using a cognitive model of emotional disorders and to make the first steps towards resolving it.

Psychological Counselling Skills

Pre-requisites: Passing exams in General and Special Psychopathology, Fundamentals of Psychotherapy and Counselling, Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy and Counselling.

Course objectives: Acquiring essential knowledge and understanding basic concepts of REBT and The lifeskills counselling model, mastering skills needed to develop optimal counselling relationship, assess the clients and their problems and modify dysfunctional feelings and behaviour.

Course description: Contents cover learning about and mastering the concepts, methods and skills of counselling from the perspective of Rational-emotional-behaviour therapy (Ellis) and The lifeskills counselling model (Nelson-Jones). We will consider skills needed to: a. develop optimal counselling relationship and working alliance; b. assess the client’s dysfunctional patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour; c. determine counselling goals; d.formulate working hypothesis and counselling plan; e. use different interventions (cognitive, emotional and behavioural); f. evaluate the course of counselling; g. understand ethical and professional issues in counselling.

Learning Outcomes: Acquiring knowledge and basic practical skills that enable students to assess the client’s problem (which is outside the range of psychological disorder), using a cognitive model of emotional disorders and to make the first steps towards resolving it.

Literature/Reading:

• Vukosavljević Gvozden, T. (2009). Racionalno-emotivna bihejvioralna terapija – teorija i metod. Beograd, Kreativni centar.