Diploma in Public Health Counselling

Diploma in Public Health Counselling

The course offers an extensive knowledge and trains students in basics of counselling skills which they can use at different settings. This course will equip students be effective trained Public Health counsellors with adequate communication and development skills. Additionally, students will enhance self-awareness and reflective abilities that are highly valued in a range of organizations and personal life situations. The course will equip the students to be able to make a difference in people's lives with a positive relationship.

In this course you will learn the following topics:

• Understand public health and its core functions

• Understand the purpose for public health

• Understand health, types of health and determinants of health

• Self-reflection questions of life. These are questions that will help you to have a positive thought of life and can eventually help you to guide your clients.

• Basics of counselling. This topic will cover skills such as attending, silence, reflecting, paraphrasing, clarifying and use of questions, focusing, building rapport, summarizing and Immediacy.

• Types of Counselling focusing only on client centered, directive and problem-solving skills

• Listening skills covering how the counsellor should listen and what to avoid.

• Client counsellor relationship will enable the students to be able to build positive rapport with clients

• Ethics in counselling will enable students to be aware of ethics to uphold in this profession

• Key qualities of a counsellor will enable students to understand the qualities which they need to have in order to be successful counsellors

• Examples of open ended and closed ended questions

• What to do next after this course completion

This course is for all levels of experience. However, students should be able to understand English, be able to read and write in English, have good network connection for effective learning with either a phone, tablet or laptop.

Become a Public Health Counsellor

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What you will learn

• Define Public Health and its purpose
• Understand Core functions of public health
• Understand the mission and vision of public health

Rating: 4.16667

Level: All Levels

Duration: 3.5 hours

Instructor: Mailess Chabalenge