Counselling Skills and Psychology BA (Hons)

Enhance your ability to communicate and gain highly developed embedded counselling skills to help others in a wide range of people-related employment contexts.

This course will give you the opportunity to:

• Develop practical counselling skills which can be used in a range of professional settings.
• Evaluate the theories underpinning the skills and the contexts in which they are used.
• Enhance your self-awareness and capacity for ethical, empathic and reflective practice.
• Equip yourself with valuable communication skills, knowledge and experience transferrable to a range of workplace and helping situations.
• Develop your multicultural competence and understanding.
• Explore a wide variety of workplace contexts where counselling skills are used.
• Carry out research and develop a critical understanding of different therapeutic approaches.

Why study this course with us?

Chester has a long-established national reputation for the provision of counselling education. We are linked to an exciting and cutting-edge research community and the course is delivered by practitioners and researchers who draw on their own professional and academic expertise. We seek to ensure that our students have the best experience possible. The teaching is largely experiential with a strong practical component. This is enhanced by guest lecturers who bring in knowledge and skills from the wider professional and academic community.

The general principles of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Ethical Framework (2018) help to inform our Counselling Skills course. The course provides you with a chance to gain highly developed embedded counselling skills to help others and can provide the foundations for further therapeutic training for those who wish to continue onto professional counsellor qualification routes. It is a practical, reflective and academic course which combines theory with social and contextual considerations. You will learn about a range of counselling and therapeutic approaches, developing your self-awareness and ability to communicate with people in an ethical, empathic and professional way. It is in our view a unique chance to study for a multidisciplinary degree with a strong practical and employable component.

Typical Entry

     

112

UCAS points

GCE A Level

       

112 UCAS points from GCE A Levels or equivalent. Typical offer - BCC-BBC including a Humanities-based essay writing subject such as English Literature, English Language, English Language & Literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, History or Classical Civilisation.

BTEC

     

BTEC Extended Diploma/Diploma: merit/distinction profile plus one of the GCE A Level subjects listed above.

Irish/Scottish Highers

    

Irish Highers - H3, H3, H3, H3, H4 including H3 in English

Scottish Highers - BBBB

 

including English

International Baccalaureate

       

26 points, including 5 in English

Access requirements

     

Access to HE Diploma (must include English Language or Literature at Level 3) and to include 45 credits at level 3, 30 of which must be at Merit

IELTS

IELTS Academic: Undergraduate: 6.0 (no less than 5.5 in any band)

The University of Chester offers an award-winning Careers and Employability service to help students plan their future, make the most of their time at University and enhance their employability. It provides access to part-time jobs, extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and practical one-to-one help with career planning. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and provide extensive information covering graduate jobs and postgraduate study. Students and graduates of the University of Chester can use our services free of charge for up to two years after graduating.