| | Diploma in Human Relations and Counselling
The Diploma in Human Rrelations and Counselling is validated by COSCA.
It is a part-time (1 day per week), 2-year modular programme designed to fulfil the training requirements for those who wish to work towards professional accreditation with COSCA, BACP and BPC. The course can also be taken on a 'stand alone' basis, with a post graduate level Certificate in Human Relations and Counselling awarded after the satisfactory completion of the year 1 requirements.
The psychodynamic perspective describes a way of understanding human relations, recognising and valuing the connections, which may not always be at a conscious level, between an individual's inner and outer experiences, and the significance of past experience in relation to the present. The hallmark of a psychodynamic practitioner is an enhanced reflective self-awareness that includes an understanding of underlying relational dynamics and the capacity to work sensitively with the complexity of what it means to be human. Psychodynamic counsellors have acquired an understanding of themselves, their unconscious as well as conscious motivation and feelings and how these affect their behaviour and their interactions.
The Programme proposes a ‘lived experience’ as a member of a learning community and promotes a model of good professional practice in the field of psychological therapy which foregrounds the following:
• the centrality of relationship, in both conscious and unconscious aspects, in human development and behaviour, and the implications of this complexity for professional practice;
• clients understood as complex human beings rather than in terms of a ‘presenting problem’ or a mental-health diagnosis;
• the professional responsibility of the practitioner and of the service in respect of the management of the therapeutic context.
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