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Foundation Degree in Counselling

Additional resources to support your learning

If you are taking or planning to take Exploring psychology (DSE212) or Child development (ED209) we have provided additional materials to support your learning because these optional courses were not written specifically with counsellors in mind and there may be aspects of these courses where you struggle to see the relevance of them to your practice. We hope the on-line coaching courses will help to provide the links between this learning and your counselling practice.

These 'online coaches' for DSE212 and ED209 were written by Margaret Chapman, a very experienced counsellor and coach, and we are very grateful to her for producing these invaluable materials.

PDF DSE212 Online Coach (PDF document, 300 KB)
PDF ED209 Online Coach (PDF document, 260 KB)

Other materials

PDF Open University Foundation Degree in Counselling Leaflet (PDF document, 1 MB)
PDF Managing Exam Anxiety With CBT - The Worry Buster (PDF document, 25 KB)
PDF Exploring your VAK Preferences (PDF document, 20KB)

Useful links to professional bodies

www.cpcab.co.uk
www.bacp.co.uk
www.hpc-uk.org

Information about when counselling might be useful from the NHS.

The CPCAB webpage offers a huge amount of information about counselling that you may find useful.

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The Foundation Degree in Counselling is a higher education qualification which will provide an understanding of the theory and skills required to practise as a professional counsellor.

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