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Psychotherapy Diploma Course

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What Will You Learn?

The Psychotherapy Diploma Course will guide you through the theoretical knowledge of how psychotherapy is used in practice, its varying types and approaches, and how therapists create positive relationships with clients. You’ll also gain an awareness of different mental health issues and emotional disorders that psychotherapy can address.

The course opens with a look at what psychotherapy is and who would benefit from it, before going on to explore an essential skill for all therapists – rapport building. We’ll consider the roles of the conscious and the unconscious minds and the defence mechanisms of each that people use whilst in therapy. You’ll also be guided through the work of Sigmund Freud & Carl Jung in the context of psychotherapy.

We’ll take a look at humanistic therapy and existential therapy, along with gestalt therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) within the context of psychotherapy, before exploring the delivery format of psychotherapy itself.

The course guides you through various conditions and how psychotherapy can help to resolve them or manage their symptoms. The conditions covered include anxiety and anger management, eating disorders, depression, and schizophrenia.

By studying this course, you will:

Gain a greater understanding of psychotherapy
Become familiar with rapport-building techniques
Discover the various types of and approaches to psychotherapy
Gain an awareness of different mental health issues and emotional disorders that psychotherapy can address

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Course Syllabus

What will I learn on the course?

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Module 1: About Psychotherapy

6 parts

Introduction
Part 1: What is Psychotherapy?
Part 2: Counselling Vs. Psychotherapy
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 1 Assessment

Module 2: Building Rapport with Other People

5 parts

Part 1: Understanding Rapport
Part 2: How to Build Rapport
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 2 Assessment

Module 3: The Conscious Mind and the Unconscious Mind

5 parts

Part 1: Introducing the Unconscious Mind
Part 2: Introducing the Conscious Mind
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 3 Assessment

Module 4: Conscious and Unconscious Defence Mechanisms in Psychotherapy

5 parts

Part 1: What are Defence Mechanisms?
Part 2: Repression, Denial and Projection
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 4 Assessment

Module 5: The Influence of Freud and Jung on Psychotherapy

7 parts

Part 1: Psychoanalysis
Part 2: Key Concepts of Psychoanalysis
Part 3: Analytical Psychology
Part 4: Key Concepts of Analytical Psychology
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 5 Assessment

Module 6: Humanistic Therapy and Existential Therapy

7 parts

Part 1: Humanistic Therapy
Part 2: Key Concepts of Humanistic Therapy
Part 3: How Humanistic Therapy Works
Part 4: Existential Therapy
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 6 Assessment

Module 7: Gestalt Therapy

6 parts

Part 1: Gestalt Therapy
Part 2: Key Concepts of Gestalt Therapy
Part 3: How Gestalt Therapy Works
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 7 Assessment

Module 8: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

5 parts

Part 1: What is CBT?
Part 2: How CBT Works
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 8 Assessment

Module 9: Format of Psychotherapy

5 parts

Part 1: Types of Psychotherapy Sessions I
Part 2: Types of Psychotherapy Sessions II
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 9 Assessment

Module 10: Anxiety and Anger Management

6 parts

Part 1: An Overview of Anxiety
Part 2: An Overview of Anger
Part 3: Causes of Anger
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 10 Assessment

Module 11: Eating Disorders

5 parts

Part 1: What are Eating Disorders?
Part 2: Risk Factors and Interventions
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 11 Assessment

Module 12: Exploring Depression

5 parts

Part 1: What is Depression?
Part 2: Treatment Plans for Depression
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 12 Assessment

Module 13: Recognising Schizophrenia

6 parts

Part 1: Understanding Schizophrenia
Part 2: Treating Schizophrenia
Conclusion
Test Your Knowledge
Key Learning Points
Module 13 Assessment

Who Would Benefit from This Course?

The Psychotherapy Diploma Course has been designed for anyone who has an interest in psychotherapy and wants to deepen their knowledge and understanding of the subject. It’s ideal if you want to start on the path to becoming a psychotherapist and want to find out more about the field.

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Accreditations

The Psychotherapy Diploma Course will take you up to 150 hours to complete, working from home. There is no time limit for completing this course, it can be studied in your own time at your own pace.

This is a Level 3 course and will give you 150 CPD (Continued Professional Development) points.

Upon completion of your course assessments, you receive 2 certificates. A certificate from the Centre of Excellence and a CPD certificate displaying the number of CPD points earned from the course.

Many Centre of Excellence courses are Fully Accredited by the world’s leading professional membership association for natural medicine – The Complementary Medical Association (The CMA).

You can apply to join The CMA as a Student Member while you are still studying, and if you do so you will be eligible to use the post nominal letters SCMA after your name.

Upon graduation from a CMA Registered course you will be eligible to apply for CMA Membership and this will give you numerous professional benefits including being able to use the letters MCMA after your name – Member of The Complementary Medical Association. This will demonstrate your commitment to excellence and professionalism in the natural healthcare field.

Register with The CMA as a Student or fully qualified Practitioner via The CMA website where you will be asked to submit your certificate of graduation, and proof of insurance.

The CMA’s recommended insurers are Westminster global.

This course is endorsed by the Quality Licence Scheme. Therefore, upon successful completion of this course, learners can also receive a certificate of achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and a Learner Unit Summary, which lists the details of all the units the learner has completed as part of the course. (This certificate is optional and costs an additional £25).

The Quality Licence Scheme is part of the Skills and Education Group, a charitable organisation that unites education and skills-orientated organisations that share similar values and objectives. With more than 100 years of collective experience, the Skills and Education Group’s strategic partnerships create opportunities to inform, influence and represent the wider education and skills sector.

The Skills and Education Group also includes two nationally recognised awarding organisations; Skills and Education Group Awards and Skills and Education Group Access. Through their awarding organisations they have developed a reputation for providing high-quality qualifications and assessments for the education and skills sector. They are committed to helping employers, organisations and learners cultivate the relevant skills for learning, skills for employment, and skills for life.

Their knowledge and experience of working within the awarding sector enables them to work with training providers, through the Quality Licence Scheme, to help them develop high-quality courses and/or training programmes for the non-regulated market.

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