LEVEL 6 DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

THE CHRYSALIS LEVEL 6 DIPLOMA IN COUNSELING CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Our 2 Year Level 6 Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People (CYP) is a full specialist qualification which gives a training route to apply to join the National Counselling Society’s specialist Children and Young People’s Therapist Accredited Register, thus enhancing employment opportunities to work in this area.

The course is listed on the Ofqual Regulated Qualifications Framework at Level 6 (ref 603/7500/0) and is validated by The Prince’s Trust Qualifications.

You need to have successfully graduated from the Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People which is the first year of this course. You cannot enrol directly onto Level 6.

During this second year, your training will be focused on gaining practical experience through your sourcing a supervised placement in a specialist CYP agency, and on preparing and writing your Dissertation.

You’ll need to accrue 100 client hours working with CYP. As you are already qualified and registered as a counsellor, this work can be for up to 6 hours a week, either paid or voluntary. Due to the nature of this work, the majority of client hours must be gained in the room.

Your 10,000 – 12,000 word dissertation, academically supervised, will be a Clinical Case study focusing on your work on placement. This is to be submitted at the end of the course.

This work will be supported by 120 guided learning hours made up of part time classes both in the room at weekends and online weekday evenings, self-directed learning groups and individual academic supervision sessions. You will be given comprehensive supporting materials such as course notes, articles and reference lists.

This course prepares you to undertake clinical practice with CYP, to be able to observe and evaluate your own practice, to understand the research process and to undertake a full clinical case study.

Entry Requirements:

1. Graduation from the Level 5 Diploma in Counselling Children and Young People.
2. National Counselling Society accredited member (or equivalent)

LEVEL 5 EXTENDED DIPLOMA COURSE

THE CHRYSALIS LEVEL 5 EXTENDED DIPLOMA IN ADVANCED COUNSELLING PRACTISE

This course is further study for qualified therapeutic counsellors. This course provides a route to higher level professional membership and provides further GLH to meet professional register training requirements of 450 hours. It is designed to match the training requirements of the higher NCS membership grade of MNCS (Prof Accred).

Registered successful candidates will
achieve The Princes Trust Level 5
Extended Diploma in Advanced Counselling Practise 603/7498/6

Our Level 5 Extended Diploma in Advanced Counselling Practise (139 credits)
The course runs for 1 year part time at weekends (approx. 1 weekend per month) with short teams sessions between. The course requires 100 hours of supervised counselling practice (clinical hours) in an organisational placement with clients. Placement will need to be approved by Chrysalis and clinical hours can only be accrued while on the course. You may accrue up to a maximum of 6 clinical hours per week. Placement work may be voluntary or paid.

Professional registers expect to see a majority of clinical hours accrued on placement as in-the-room hours as opposed to online hours. You should be mindful of this requirement when seeking placements.

Course work is set for each of the 8 Components and comprises a combination of formats including essays, journal reviews, class presentations, a study of supervised practice and a research proposal.

You study the following eight components:

1. Integrating Theoretical Understanding
2. Applying theory in Practice
3. Practice
4. Professional Practice
5. Contemporary Counselling
6. Counselling by Telephone and Online
7. Working with Children and Young People
8. Counselling Research


Study Time: In total The Level 5 Extended Diploma contains 248 tutor contact hours estimated, TQT
(Total Qualification Time) is 1390 hours

Entry Requirements: You must already have a practice qualification such as the Chrysalis Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and full membership of the NCS (or equivalent). Combined with that existing core training.