Family Counselling Course Online

Do you want to understand how family counselling works? Do you want to treat or help someone overcome their family problems? Or maybe you just want to help develop and maintain the functionality and health of family relationships. Whatever the reason may be, this online family counselling course may just be the one suited for you!

 

 

Develop a better understanding of family dynamics, and a capacity to analyze and facilitate solutions to problems that emerge in modern families.

This course focuses on an area of counselling which is important for most counselors to be familiar with. There are often times when all members of a family are affected by the behaviour of one member, or the family itself has become fragmented and non-functional. When this happens no amount of therapy for one family member will help heal the broader family bonds. Students of this course will become familiar with different approaches to family counselling and a range of techniques they can use in family situations.

This course is suitable for anyone involved with families personally or professionally such as teachers, social workers, careers, nurses and so on.

Course Aim

  • Describe family diversity in terms of a variety of factors including structure and function.
  • Explain the interactions and motivations at work in different families.
  • Describe how we have dealt with family problems in the past; then evaluate the results of these past strategies, and learn from those results.
  • Determine precisely what problems exist in a family; and evaluate the relative significance of those different problems.
  • Identify and compare support options that may be available to a family with problems
  • Understand what is meant by a family systems approach to counselling and describe different theoretical perspectives.
  • Describe further theoretical approaches to family therapy and understand the usefulness of an integrated approach.
  • Plan the initial interview for a couple or for a family, in need of counselling.
  • Identify optional approaches for counselling a family or couple with problems.
  • Plan a program of counselling and if relevant, other strategies, to address a family or couple in crisis.

Course Structure

There are 10 lessons in this course:

  1. Nature & Scope of Families
    • Different types of families
    • Traditional Family Structures
    • Family Systems
    • Cultural variations
    • Family Lifecycles
  2. Family Dynamics
    • Crises
    • Changing cultures (immigrant families)
    • Evolving Structures (Religion, new siblings, departing siblings, changing parents, incoming grandparents)
    • Breakdowns
    • Merging two families
    • Abuse
    • Violence
    • Death
    • Illness
    • Changing location (losing friends etc)
    • Changing income (loss of job etc)
    • Disintigration & Reintigration
  3. History
    • How are dynamics different & similar today to in the past.
    • How did we cope with family problems in the past in different places, cultures etc.
    • What can we learn from this? How can we draw strength from knowing all this is not new.
  4. Identifying Problems
    • Patterns
    • Critical incidents
    • Long standing incidents
    • Common problems for families
    • Common problems for couples
  5. Support Structures
    • What support services might be accessed
    • Extended family
    • Community services
    • Social networks
    • Religion
    • Types of counselling, -individual, Group Work etc (incl. problems with Group work) etc.
  6. Approaches to Family Therapy I
  7. Approaches to Family Therapy II
  8. Conducting Initial Interviews/Sessions
  9. Considering Solutions
    • Determining Roles
    • Establishing Rules
  10. Case Study
    • Consider a situation establish & consider alternative strategies & select a strategy.

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  • Experienced Tutor support
  • Certificate sent to you
  • Online study (Printed notes available)
  • Self paced - no set timetable
  • 12 months to complete course

From: $35.00 / week for 19 weeks

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    • Experienced Tutor support
    • Certificate sent to you
    • Online study (Printed notes available)
    • Self paced - no set timetable
    • 12 months to complete course

    From: $35.00 / week for 19 weeks

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      Family Counselling Course Online

      Do you want to understand how family counselling works? Do you want to treat or help someone overcome their family problems? Or maybe you just want to help develop and maintain the functionality and health of family relationships. Whatever the reason may be, this online family counselling course may just be the one suited for you!

       

       

      Develop a better understanding of family dynamics, and a capacity to analyze and facilitate solutions to problems that emerge in modern families.

      This course focuses on an area of counselling which is important for most counselors to be familiar with. There are often times when all members of a family are affected by the behaviour of one member, or the family itself has become fragmented and non-functional. When this happens no amount of therapy for one family member will help heal the broader family bonds. Students of this course will become familiar with different approaches to family counselling and a range of techniques they can use in family situations.

      This course is suitable for anyone involved with families personally or professionally such as teachers, social workers, careers, nurses and so on.

      Course Aim

      • Describe family diversity in terms of a variety of factors including structure and function.
      • Explain the interactions and motivations at work in different families.
      • Describe how we have dealt with family problems in the past; then evaluate the results of these past strategies, and learn from those results.
      • Determine precisely what problems exist in a family; and evaluate the relative significance of those different problems.
      • Identify and compare support options that may be available to a family with problems
      • Understand what is meant by a family systems approach to counselling and describe different theoretical perspectives.
      • Describe further theoretical approaches to family therapy and understand the usefulness of an integrated approach.
      • Plan the initial interview for a couple or for a family, in need of counselling.
      • Identify optional approaches for counselling a family or couple with problems.
      • Plan a program of counselling and if relevant, other strategies, to address a family or couple in crisis.

      Course Structure

      There are 10 lessons in this course:

      1. Nature & Scope of Families
        • Different types of families
        • Traditional Family Structures
        • Family Systems
        • Cultural variations
        • Family Lifecycles
      2. Family Dynamics
        • Crises
        • Changing cultures (immigrant families)
        • Evolving Structures (Religion, new siblings, departing siblings, changing parents, incoming grandparents)
        • Breakdowns
        • Merging two families
        • Abuse
        • Violence
        • Death
        • Illness
        • Changing location (losing friends etc)
        • Changing income (loss of job etc)
        • Disintigration & Reintigration
      3. History
        • How are dynamics different & similar today to in the past.
        • How did we cope with family problems in the past in different places, cultures etc.
        • What can we learn from this? How can we draw strength from knowing all this is not new.
      4. Identifying Problems
        • Patterns
        • Critical incidents
        • Long standing incidents
        • Common problems for families
        • Common problems for couples
      5. Support Structures
        • What support services might be accessed
        • Extended family
        • Community services
        • Social networks
        • Religion
        • Types of counselling, -individual, Group Work etc (incl. problems with Group work) etc.
      6. Approaches to Family Therapy I
      7. Approaches to Family Therapy II
      8. Conducting Initial Interviews/Sessions
      9. Considering Solutions
        • Determining Roles
        • Establishing Rules
      10. Case Study
        • Consider a situation establish & consider alternative strategies & select a strategy.

      Enrol Now

      • Experienced Tutor support
      • Certificate sent to you
      • Online study (Printed notes available)
      • Self paced - no set timetable
      • 12 months to complete course

      From: $35.00 / week for 19 weeks

      Clear

       

      Get a Free Info Pack!

        CourseStream Accreditation.
        Accredited courses.