Level 5 CPCAB Counselling Children & Young People Diploma

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Level 5 CPCAB Counselling Children & Young People Diploma

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Level 5 CPCAB Counselling Children & Young People Diploma

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Course Introduction

This CPCAB qualifying qualification is designed to give learners the specialist knowledge, skills and competencies to work as counsellors with children and young people aged 11-18.

The course will be structured to meet the below CPCAB learning outcomes:

  • Work safely, legally and ethically as a counsellor with young people aged 11 – 18 years old.
  • Work therapeutically with young people.
  • Work with issues around culture, family and diversity relevant to the development of young people.
  • Work with an age-appropriate counselling approach to engage with young people.
  • Work with self-awareness as a practitioner with young people
  • Use a coherent framework of theory and skills relevant for working with this age group.
  • Monitor and maintain professional effectiveness as a counsellor of young people.
 Level 4 Therapeutic Counselling CPCAB Diploma (TC-L4) or the Recognised Prior Learning (RPL) equivalent (minimum 420 Guided Learning Hours) plus required pre TC-L4 training.

Candidates must be able to demonstrate the following:
  • Ability to identify reasons for training beyond just personal development
  • Provide references
  • Academically and emotionally able to cope with this level of training
  • Ability to work with difference and diversity
  • Possess personal qualities of imagination, intuition, openness and ability to benefit from self-development
  • Ability to form a therapeutic relationship with a child or young person
  • Have self-awareness, insight, honesty and the ability to make links
  • Emotional stability and the absence of personality disturbance
  • Ability to challenge and be challenged
  • Ability to respond sensitively and empathically to children and young people
  • Ability to work professionally as part of a team
Portfolio of coursework - with 3 types of evidence including documentation (learning journals, self review, assignment), tutor observation and testimony.

External case review demonstrating your work with a young person.
Level 6 Certificate in Therapeutic Counselling Supervision or Degree/Higher qualification in Counselling.

This qualification will enable successful candidates to work as counsellors with this age group in a range of job and career opportunities, which include but are not limited to: 

  • A counsellor employed by a School or College
  • A counsellor in an agency or organisation which specialises in counselling children and young people
  • A private counsellor working for an external organisation such as a school, youth club, wellness/mental health setting
  • An ‘adult’ counsellor in independent practice wishing to extend their work to cover this age range
  • A youth worker in the community
  • An outreach worker with adolescents/teenagers
To enrol on this course, please email counselling@bcot.ac.uk with the course you are interested in to arrange an interview with the course tutor. Following a successful interview, you will then be provided with an enrolment code in order to complete your enrolment online.

Note loan only covers part of the fees.
Course Details

Course Code:
PEBL011
Study Mode:
Higher Education
Location
Basingstoke
Duration:
18 Weeks
Start Date:
September 2025
Day & Time:
Mon 9.30am to 4pm
Tuition Fees:
TBC (previously £1500.00)
Registration Fees:
£396.00
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