Advanced Certificate in Aged Care & Community Support Course Guide

This course covers health promotion strategies, community engagement, and advocacy, emphasising empowerment, participation, and equity. It explores educational initiatives, community-based programmes, policy advocacy, and evaluating health promotion efforts, aiming to foster health equity, improve well-being, and drive sustainable, community-led change.

This course covers substance abuse prevention, understanding its impact, and promoting alternatives. It discusses the types of substances, risk factors, health implications, prevention strategies, sleep hygiene, restorative practices, and integrating healthy habits into daily life for overall well-being.

This course explores trauma-informed care in aged care settings, focusing on trauma prevalence, principles, and creating safe environments. It discusses holistic recovery approaches, self-care, community resources, and empowerment strategies. From understanding trauma triggers to supporting recovery, it equips caregivers with compassionate, effective support.

This course explores community support resources in the UK, covering non-profit services, referral processes, and advocacy in health and social care. Topics include types of services, accessing support, referral pathways, documentation importance, advocacy principles, and client representation.

This course covers effective advocacy and community organising in aged care, exploring techniques like storytelling and networking, strategies for policy engagement, and evaluation methods to measure impact and promote continuous improvement, ultimately aiming to empower elderly individuals and drive systemic change for social justice.

This course covers goal setting, intervention planning, and outcome evaluation in purposeful counselling; crisis intervention and de-escalation techniques; and the importance of self-care for counsellors to prevent burnout and maintain effectiveness, ensuring support is client-centred, responsive, and sustainable.

This course explores self-management strategies for chronic diseases, emphasising self-monitoring, education, and stress management. It advocates for multidisciplinary care, community resources, and patient empowerment, enhancing quality of life. Topics include physical, mental, and social well-being, along with palliative care integration.

This course explores transitions in care settings for older adults, including challenges and strategies for smooth transitions. Cultural perspectives on aging and loss are discussed, along with the importance of building supportive communities. Topics include types of care settings, coping with loss, and elements of supportive communities.

This course covers ethical healthcare practices, emphasising cultural competence, ethical decision-making models, and case studies for critical thinking. Topics include cultural awareness, communication, avoiding stereotypes, and navigating ethical dilemmas.

This course will provide an introduction to various methods of learning and identifying essential micro- skills. It will include but not be limited to the function and purpose of counselling, psychoanalytic techniques, key concepts of humanistic therapy and key counselling skills.

This course will provide an introduction to the skills of commencing the counselling process, including but not limited to the unique relationship between the counsellor and client, the role of listening in the counselling process and the importance of a good environment.

This course will provide an introduction to the notion of reflection of content and feelings, including but not limited to the five basic responses of non-directive counselling, paraphrasing, the process of reflection on thoughts and feelings and responses to reflection.

This course will provide an overview of different questioning techniques and their usefulness in the counselling process. It will include but not be limited to the importance of restricting questioning, the difference between open and closed questions, questions that should be avoided and the various ways questions are used in crisis counselling.

This course will take a look at various micro-skills such as summarising, confrontation and reframing. It will include but not be limited to the effects such micro-skills can have on the client, when it is appropriate or inappropriate for a counsellor to use each micro-skill and a look at Carl Rogers’s perspective on effective counselling.

This course will provide an introduction to the negative impact of self-destructive beliefs and the value of normalising in the counselling process. It will include but not be limited to the reasons for self-destructive beliefs, the components and benefits of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, case studies of normalising and the symptoms and treatment for depression.

This course will take a look at how a client can make choices, overcome psychological blocks and facilitate actions. It will include but not be limited to ways to find solutions, the process of creating, making and reviewing choices, the components of the Gestalt awareness circle and ways to overcome psychological blockages.

This course will provide an overview of effective ways to close the counselling session, arranging further meetings and overcoming dependency. It will include but not be limited to the three stages of a counselling session, the importance of time management in a counselling session and how dependency can be managed.

This course will provide an introduction to the different stages of the counselling process, and how the use of the different micro-skills can be integrated into the process. It will include but not be limited to the preparation required before a counselling session and the stages of the counselling session.

This course will provide an introduction to the dynamics of the counselling process including such phenomenon as present experiences, feedback, transference, counter-transference, projection and resistance. It will include but not be limited to the benefits of focussing on present experiences, methods to direct client focus to present experiences and ways to overcome common counselling problems.

This course will provide an introduction to the major differences between telephone counselling techniques and face-to-face counselling, and the specific skills and responses of the telephone counsellor. It will include but not be limited to the importance of boundaries and debriefing when conducting telephone counselling, techniques used to deal with problem callers and the application of telephone counselling to a psychiatric disorder.

This course will provide an introduction to the nature of crises, including but not limited to their potential effect on the equanimity of the individual and appropriate emotional and practical responses.

This course will provide an introduction to the nature of aggression in the counselling process and ways of encouraging the client to explore and refocus it. It will include but not be limited to the causes of anger and effect it has on the body, how to assist the expression of anger and methods for controlling anger.

This course will provide an overview of different types of depression that a client may bring to the counselling process and will include but not be limited to the three forms of depressive disorders and how to determine them, the relationship between blocked anger and depression, counselling techniques for chronic depression and alternative treatment approaches.

This course will provide an overview of stages of the grieving process and strategies for dealing with a client’s grief. It will include but not be limited to key skills in grief counselling, how the grieving stages can be overcome, complicated grief reactions and the strategies used to counsel a grieving child or teenager.

This course will explore the different strategies of dealing with suicide, including but not limited to assessing risk, the ethical issues involved and the different approaches to counselling a suicidal client and their advantages.

This course will provide an introduction to psychoanalytic counselling theory, including but not limited to its origins and applications and an in-depth look at the work of Sigmund Freud, Albert Jung and Erik Erikson.

This course explains the principal differences between Adlerian and Freudian theory including but not limited to key concepts of Adlerian theory, the four stages of the Adlerian counselling process and the pros and cons of Adlerian therapy.

This course describes the chief elements of the Gestalt approach to counselling, including but not limited to its application to the resolution of problems, Gestalt therapy techniques and the pros and cons of Gestalt therapy.

This course explains the principles, goals and appropriate applications of person-centred approach to counselling, including but not limited to the necessary personal attitudes of counsellors, the function and purpose of person-centred therapy and its pros and cons.

This course will take a look at Albert Ellis’s views and the evolution of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), including but not limited to the different techniques and principles of REBT, Ellis’s assumption of human nature and the ABC model for personality.

This course describes characteristics of contemporary behavioural therapy and different problem-solving techniques adopted by behavioural therapists. It includes but is not limited to the characteristics of the behavioural approach, the function and purpose of behavioural therapy as well as techniques and pros and cons.

This course discusses the role of solution-focussed counselling in modern therapy, including but not limited to the sequence followed by solution-focussed counselling, the strategies and stages used and the pros and cons.

This course explains the differences and similarities between Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and REBT, including but not limited to the cognitive disorders encompassed by CBT, key elements of Cognitive Behaviour Modification and the constructivist counselling approach.