Certificate COSCA Counselling Skills
Successful completion of the four modules of the course give eligibility for the award of COSCA Certificate in Counselling Skills. COSCA (the professional body for counselling and psychotherapy in Scotland) is the regulatory body for counselling skills in Scotland.
Clearing 2020
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Join GCU in September 2020
We are looking forward to welcoming you to what will be a great new academic year at GCU and we hope you choose this as your study destination. Your experience as an applicant and new student remains our priority. We will be doing everything we can to make sure you enjoy learning through our blended approach of online and face-to-face teaching and to give you as many opportunities to create new friendships and experience everything the GCU community has to offer you!
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The course develops four essential themes – skills, theory, self-awareness and ethics.
The aims of the four module programme are to enable students to:
Identify the skills leading to the successful promotion of the helping relationship via self-awareness, exploration and constructive action
Understand the fundamentals of the counselling relationship and process, together with the composite stages of growth and development
Recognise and monitor the issues and boundaries relevant to the counselling process
Work to a professional code of ethics
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Additional costs
As a student at the University, there are additional fees and costs which may or may not apply to you, but that you should be aware of.
Scholarships
We provide high-quality education for a fair price; as the University for the Common Good, we are committed to offering accessible higher education for talented students by keeping our tuition fees low and providing a generous scholarship package of over £2 million per year.
For further enquiries please contact:
Dr Birgit Schroeter
Birgit.Schroeter@gcu.ac.uk
0141 273 1694
Dr Rosemarie Lynass
R.Lynass@gcu.ac.uk
0141 331 3877