Continuous professional development CPD is very important for practicing counselors in order to continue practicing in line with the world's best practices, hence the development of our instant courses.
The Institute also understands the place of mental well-being in society and has decided to cater to everyone including those who aren't planning to take up counseling as a profession. People who wish to develop better-coping mechanisms and function optimally in various aspects of life can also benefit from our instant courses.
These courses are important for professionals who also want to stay relevant by having access to up-to-date research in their chosen field as well as having a deeper understanding of certain specialized areas of counseling. These courses are strictly online, but can also be taken as a one-day on-site program for groups. Certificates are awarded to participants as well.
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JUNE FREE COURSE: Certificate In Anxiety & Stress Therapy (CPD)
Every month we offer free webinars on specialized courses that can help our professional members improve their skills in various fields of mental health counseling. Webinars are facilitated by the best hands in the subject and participants have the opportunity to ask questions as well as increase their course points.
Participants will also have access to the videos, PDFs, and PowerPoint materials for the courses. Interested individuals in the helping profession can take advantage of this great opportunity as well.
This month's training is about anxiety and stress management and addiction and our facilitator is up to the task. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that must not be missed, Click on "READ MORE" to complete your free Registration below. Certificates will be awarded to participants as well.
Certificate in Anger Management.
Anger is a fundamental emotion that everyone experiences from time to time. Anger is a basic human emotion that is triggered by unpleasant feeling that occurs when we think we have been threatened, hurt, injured, mistreated, opposed in our long-held views, or when we are faced with obstacles that keep us from reaching personal goals.
Certificate in Addiction and Substance Abuse.
Drug abuse, also known as Drug addiction is defined as chronic, relapsing brain disease that is characterized by compulsive drug seeking and use, despite its harmful consequences. The initial decision of drug taking is voluntary but repeated uses leads to its addiction. Addiction of any form is dangerous. What is even worse is that mostly young children and youth are hit by this storm.
Certificate in Depression Counseling.
Depression is a significant contributor to the global burden of disease and affects people in all communities across the world. Depression simply takes people to the bottomless tunnel of hopelessness and drop them there without giving them any form of respite, signs of light at the end or possibility of coming out of the tunnel. Today, depression is estimated to affect 350 million people.
Are you considering helping people with depression or you work in other areas of counseling and will like to be equipped with the skills to help your clients exhibiting symptoms of depression, then this course is for you. This course is also useful for people trying to come out of depression, coupled with working with their counselors/therapits.
Certificate in Anxiety Counseling.
Anxiety is a mental and physical reaction to perceived threats. In small doses, anxiety is helpful. It protects us from danger and focuses our attention on problems. But when anxiety is too severe or occurs too frequently, it can become debilitating. An anxiety disorder, however, differs from normal stress in that symptoms such as worry, panic, and/or physical discomfort are more intense and frequent, and persist even when the situational pressures of life lessen. An anxiety disorder typically causes a great deal of distress and interferes with the ability to relax and experience a sense of enjoyment and well-being. Become an anxiety specialist with this instant course.
Certificate in Play Therapy.
Play therapy is a therapeutic modality wherein play is the principal therapeutic factor. Because play is a child’s natural medium of communication, play therapy is an ideal modality in which to allow children to express their feelings and deal with their emotional problems. In essence, play therapy is for children what ‘talk therapy’ or counseling is for adults.
Play therapy is a method of therapy that uses play to uncover and deal with psychological issues. It can be used on its own, particularly with children, or along with other therapies and medications. Every child and adolescent counselor needs this course.
Certificate in Introduction To Counseling Theory.
During the twentieth century, the development of counseling and psychotherapy came to be organized around a number of distinct theoretical models or ‘approaches’. Historically, the most important of these approaches or ‘schools’ of therapy have been psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and humanistic schools of thought in counseling.
However, these are merely the most popular of a wide range of theoretical orientations presently in use. The current situation in counseling and psychotherapy is one of great theoretical diversity and creativity. Just as quickly as new theories are spawned, new attempts are enjoined to unify, combine or integrate them. The proliferation of theories and approaches is often confusing for people learning about counseling, whether clients or students. The aim of this course is to make sense of theoretical diversity, and the role of theory in counseling.
Certificate in Parenting
Certificate In Professional School Counseling
Certificate in Cognitive Approach To Counseling.
Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by American psychiatrist Aaron T. Beck. CT is one of the therapeutic approaches within the larger group of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) and was first expounded by Beck in the 1960s. In the 1950s scientific interest returned to attention, memory, images, language processing, thinking, and consciousness. The “failure” of Behaviorism heralded a new period in the investigation of cognition, known as the Cognitive Revolution.
This was characterized by a revival of already existing theories and the rise of new ideas such as various communication theories. These theories emerged mainly from the previously created information theory, giving rise to experiments in signal detection and attention in order to form a theoretical and practical understanding of communication. Cognitive therapy seeks to help the patient overcome difficulties by identifying and changing dysfunctional thinking, behavior, and emotional responses.
Certificate in Behavioural Therapy.
The approach of Freud, and the psychodynamic school that has grown from his pioneering work, focuses mainly on the ‘unseen’ aspects of personality. In contrast to this, behaviorists focus on ‘what is seen’. They view personality as being a collection of learned behaviors which change throughout life according to whether the behaviors are, or are not, reinforced. If a particular behavior is rewarded, we will continue to use it; if it is not rewarded, it will gradually die out. In this sense, the behaviorists’ views are concerned with the working of the outside world, whereas the psychodynamic view is concerned with the inner world, or psyche.
Anxiety arises in situations where our responses are not being rewarded and as a result, we cannot find the ‘right’ way to behave. Sometimes, behavior that is unhelpful to the individual may be reinforced until it is maintained because it helps the person giving the reinforcement.
Certificate in Psychodynamic Approach To Counseling.
The psychodynamic approach to counseling represents one of the major traditions within contemporary counseling and psychotherapy. Psychodynamic counseling places great emphasis on the counselor’s ability to use what happens in the immediate, unfolding relationship between client and counselor to explore the types of feelings and relationship dilemmas that have caused difficulties for the client in his or her everyday life.
The aim of psychodynamic counseling is to help clients to achieve insight and understanding of the reasons for their problems and translate this insight into a mature capacity to cope with any future difficulties. To enable this process to take place, the counselor needs to be able to offer the client an environment that is sufficiently secure and consistent to permit the safe expression of painful or shameful fantasies and impulses.
Certificate in Humanistic Approach To Counseling.
Humanistic psychology has always consisted of a broad set of theories and models connected by shared values and philosophical assumptions, rather than constituting a single, coherent, theoretical formulation (Rice and Greenberg 1992; Cain 2002; McLeod 2002a). Within counseling and psychotherapy, the most widely used humanistic approaches are person-centered and Gestalt, although psychosynthesis, transactional analysis, and other models also contain strong humanistic elements.
The common ingredient in all humanistic approaches is an emphasis on experiential processes. Rather than focusing on the origins of client problems in childhood events (psychodynamic) or the achievement of new patterns of behavior in the future (behavioral), humanistic therapies concentrate on the ‘here-and-now’ experiences of the client. It can be a source of confusion that the label ‘experiential’ has been used as a general term to describe all such approaches, but has also been employed as a label for one particular approach (Gendlin 1973; Watson et al. 1998b).
Certificate in Professional TeleCounseling
Telecounseling is a modern way to receive therapy through a secured platform to facilitate video sessions, ongoing direct messaging therapy, or a combination of both. Telecounseling involves direct interaction between a counselor and the clientTeletherapy, also known as online therapy, e-therapy, e-counseling, or cyber-counseling, involves providing mental health services and support over the internet. Services can be offered through email, text messaging, video conferencing, online chat, messaging, or internet phone.
Just as therapists and counselors in the "real world" can have a range of qualifications and licenses, online therapists also require a level of additional knowledge and expertise to achieve the set goals for therapy. This course will take you through the pro and cons as well as equip you with all the necessary skills needed to be an effective online therapist. This course is offered by The Institute of Counseling in Nigeria in partnership with the Worldwide Online Therapy Certification Institute, Toronto Canada.